Dr Gleb Ivanov is a consultant haematologist at Spire Wellesley Hospital in Southend-on-Sea, Essex and at Spire Hartswood Hospital in Brentwood, Essex. He offers private haematology care in our clean and comfortable private hospitals.
The Clinical Haematology Service at Spire Wellesley Hospital covers the investigation and management of anaemias, haematological malignancies (lymphomas, leukaemias, multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes), myeloproliferative disorders, thrombophilia, bleeding disorders, haemochromatosis, red cell and platelet disorders as well as monitoring of anticoagulant therapy.
Any private patient of Dr Ivanov who needs a course of chemotherapy treatment can have their treatments at Spire Hartswood Hospital in Brentwood, where there is a 24-hour oncology nurse support.
Dr Ivanov qualified as a doctor in Minsk, Belarus and was awarded a PhD in Haematology/Biochemistry (St Petersburg, Russia) for research into the role of calprotectin (one of the proteins in white cells) in haematological conditions.
In 1997 he was invited as the Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow to undertake research at the Leucocyte Adhesion Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London. Dr Ivanov then continued his career in Medicine/Haematology and trained in major UK cancer centres such as the Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton and Christie Hospital, Manchester.
He completed specialist training in haematology at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and was subsequently appointed as a Consultant Haematologist at Southend University Hospital. His sub-speciality areas include lymphoma, coagulation disorders and obstetric haematology. Dr Ivanov maintains close links with his colleagues at London teaching hospitals.