Dr Syed Rizvi
Consultant Physician
MBBS, MRCP, FRCP, Diploma in Cardiology (London)
Specialises in
Consultant Physician at Watford General Hospital. (From 1 May 2001 to date)
I am a Senior Physician in a substantive Consultant post in a Watford District General Hospital since 1 May 2001 in the Department of Medicine. My duties are supervision of one Specialist Registrar, one GP trainee, one Core Medical Trainee and one Foundation Trainee Year 1 and teaching students from University College London and University of Grenada.
I conduct three ward rounds per week on acutely ill medical patients with a wide variety of acute medical illnesses as well as elderly inpatients. I am on call for unselected medical patients of all ages as per general medical rota.
I do one outpatient clinics per week for complex medical problems and one outpatient clinic per week for patients with Parkinson’s disease.
In addition to the above I have a special interest in looking after 22 rehabilitation patients at Langley House Rehabilitation Unit and I do two ward rounds per week for patients undergoing rehabilitation through multidisciplinary team following a stroke, surgery or needing medical rehabilitation.
I am involved in audit meetings and the clinical governance programme in my department. I am the lead for teaching programme for our department and conduct teaching meetings on every Monday between 1pm - 2pm in our Postgraduate Centre. I am a MRCP examiner for the Royal College of Physicians London for the PACES examination for the MRCP. I provide outpatient consultation as well as inpatient admission for patients of all ages with a wide variety of medical problems.
Treatment information
Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Syed Rizvi at Spire include:
General medicine
- Diabetes test
- Blood pressure test
- Asthma treatment
- Headache treatments
Geriatric medicine
Other treatments
- Acute confusional state
- Anaemia
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Bowel problems
- Cellulitis
- Constipation
- Falls, recurrent falls
- Heart failure
- Pneumonia
- Poor mobility
- TIA
- Urinary tract infections
- I provide home visits for patients who cannot come to the clinics or are acutely ill
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Additional information
Clinical interests
Strokes
Stroke medicine
Special clinical interests: Patients with multiple and complex medical conditions; Cardio–respiratory diseases; Stroke rehabilitation; Rehabilitation medicine; Pre and post-operative medical assessment; Medical input for oncology patients; Medication review; Complete Medical Check up and assessment
Qualification and professional memberships
MBBS / University of Karachi / 1979
Pakistan
MRCP (UK) / London / 1991
Member of Royal College of Physicians
Diploma in Cardiology / London / 1992
University of London
FRCP / London / 2004
Fellow of Royal College of Physicians
Professional leadership
I am the Lead for teaching programme in my department for the doctors in training.
Research and publications
I am lead for three Parkinson's Disease Research Projects at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust for
- PD MED RESEARCH
- PD GENETICS
- PD REHABILITAION
These are LREC approved National Research Projects. The research study has enrolled over 1600 patients with Parkinson's Disease which began in 2001 and is due to complete in 2019.
- I have been the Royal College of Physicians TUTOR from 2002 till 2008.
- I am an MRCP Examiner for the Royal College of Physicians since 2008.
- I am the lead physician for Elderly Care Teaching and Training Programme since 2001. I personally conduct these well received tutorials for all the junior doctors and registrars in elderly care department.
- I teach junior doctors for the MRCP examination. As a previous college tutor, I have special responsibility to maintain the teaching and training of the juniors.
- I am an Honorary Lecturer for undergraduate medical students at University College London (UCL) and Greneda from 2005 till now.
- Public Health Awareness; I have given many lectures to the general public in our local community on topics such as health awareness, blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease and Parkinson's disease between 2001 and now.
- My talks have been featured in the local newspaper, and I received commendation from the President of the local PD society and Local Temples.
Current NHS posts
Consultant Physician, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Personal profile
I am married with three daughters. I love spending time with my family. I enjoy reading and photography when I get time.
Contact information
| Telephone | 0208 901 5555 |
| Private secretary | Marie White |
| Private secretary telephone | 0780 967 0192 |
| Private secretary fax | 01923 841 134 |