Dr Henri Grech

Practising at

Spire Dunedin Hospital

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Henri Grech at Spire include:

Oncology

Other treatments

Professional profile

Dr Grech graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London in 1983 and completed his general medical training through various medical specialties at Coppetts Wood infectious Disease Unit, North Middlesex Hospital, and Ipswich Hospital.

He started his haematology training as Registrar, Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford and was appointed lecturer at St Thomas' Hospital in London then completed his training as a Senior Registrar in the Southampton General University Hospital and Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Dr Grech's published areas include; red cell adhesion in sickle cell syndromes; analgesia and norpethidine toxicity in treatment of sickle cell crisis; ambulatory management of DVT; management of relapsed / refractory CLL; characterisation of bone marrow biopsy features in LGL Leukaemia and a number of case reports.

Dr Grech was appointed Consultant at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Nov 1995 and since then has: introduced a multidisciplinary approach to management of patients with Haematological disorders; set up a Haematology Clinical Trials Team now part of the TVCRN funded Trust Trials Team; is PI for a number of MRC/NCRN badged clinical trials locally in AML, ALL, CLL, NHL, and Primary Thrombocythaemia,and pharmaceutical company sponsored trials; collaborated with GSK as local PI in 3 trials (phase 2 and 3) relating to a non-peptide Thrombopoietin receptor agonist, Eltrombopag Olamine as part of an international programme; now licensed as Revolade; has introduced a specialty ST post rotating with Oxford and sits on the Specialty Training Committee; is presently Trust Tutor and Examiner for the Royal College of Pathologists.

Qualification and professional memberships

Professional memberships

British Society for Haematology
Collegiate member of the Royal College of Physicians and Pathology
Association of Clinical Pathologists
Myeloma and CLL forum

Current NHS posts

Consultant Haematologist, Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Trust, Reading, Berkshire

Personal Profile

Dr Grech enjoys sailing, aviation and tennis.

Financial Interests

Dr Henri Grech provides Haematology and Transfusion Services to Spire Dunedin Hospital, and was paid £8,400 for this, in 2018.

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