OUR TEAM

Meet the experts delivering your care

A multi-disciplinary team including an Interventional Radiologist, Consultant Anaesthetist and Perfusionist will deliver your treatment.

Your care is very much a team effort: from the time we first make contact right through to your admission on the ward, your treatment on the day and your post-op care in the critical care unit. 
  

Christian Ottensmier 

Consultant Oncologist
Christian Ottensmier has been a consultant in medical oncology since 2000 and is Professor of Experimental Medicine within Medicine at the University of Southampton. He trained and graduated in Munster, Germany, before moving to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts to complete a 3-year training fellowship. He then moved to Southampton where he completed his oncology training and studied for a PhD in the molecular immunology of B-cells. He was appointed as an Associate Professor at the Lat Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA, USA in 2019.

Christian leads the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre in Southampton and his core clinical interest lies in the early translation of immunotherapeutic strategies (treatments that involve either stimulating or suppressing the immune system) into the clinic. He has managed patients with melanoma since he became a Medical Oncologist and has a specialist interest in caring for patients with ocular melanoma. He has co-authored papers on this illness and co-wrote the guidelines for the management of uveal melanoma.

He has clinical expertise in thoracic malignancies (those found in the chest area) and has co-developed national NCRI (National Cancer Research Institute) studies in lung cancer. He is a member of the NCRI melanoma clinical studies group. He manages a wide ranging and active portfolio of clinical trials in both lung cancer and melanoma.
Christian has served on many national and international peer review committees as well as on advisory boards and DSMBs (data safety and monitoring boards) for industry led studies. He is also a member of the CRUK Clinical Development partnership, the Cancer immunoguiding panel of CIMT (association for cancer immunotherapy) and EATI (European Academy of Tumour Immunology).

Matthew Wheater

Consultant Oncologist
Matthew Wheater was appointed as a consultant Oncologist at University Hospital Southampton in 2011. He completed his speciality training in medical oncology in Wessex and Bristol, and then undertook a 3-year Cancer Research UK research fellowship at the University of Southampton, which involved investigating signalling pathways in kidney cancer. His particular interests include advanced melanoma and urological cancers, such as testicular cancer, kidney cancer, prostate cancer and bladder cancer.

Sachin Modi

Consultant Radiologist
Sachin Modi has worked at University Hospital Southampton since 2015 and has been a Consultant Interventional Radiologist for three years. He graduated in 2007 from St Georges’- University of London, obtaining an intercalated BSc (Hons) in Immunology alongside his medical degree. He then went on to specialise in clinical and interventional radiology in the Midlands. Following this, he undertook a fellowship in interventional radiology/oncology at the renowned McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 
Sachin’s primary interest is for interventional oncology and his specialist expertise is in liver directed treatment for primary or metastatic liver cancer. He is licensed in chemoembolization (TACE- delivering bead with chemotherapy into liver arteries) and radioembolization (SIRT- delivering particles with radiation into liver arteries). He also performs other liver, gynaecological and vascular interventions. His work with diagnostic radiology involves the reporting of hepatic, biliary, abdominal and vascular imaging using MRI, CT and ultrasound scans.

Sanjay Gupta

Consultant Anaesthetist
Sanjay Gupta has worked as a consultant at Spire Southampton and Southampton General Hospital since 2006, graduating from Kings College London Medical School in 1993. Accredited in both Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, he is able to provide anaesthesia for most operations and any ongoing post-operative critical care requirements. He also works regularly in intensive care to look after both post-surgical and medical patients in both Southampton General Hospital and Southampton Spire.

His main sub-specialties include major Oncological Surgery, particularly Hepato-Biliary (including liver, pancreas and gallbladder) and Colo-Rectal Surgery. He is lead anaesthetist for Delcath Chemosaturation PHP for liver-directed therapy at Southampton and has led in establishing an Enhanced Sedation service both in the NHS and private hospitals. These allow patients to undergo unpleasant procedures (such as endoscopy, interventional radiology and ERCP) with deeper but very short acting sedation. 

Sanjay enjoys teaching medical students during his NHS work at University Hospital Southampton in both formal settings and in the context of direct patient care. He is an accredited training proctor with Delcath Chemosaturation, teaching the procedure to centres world-wide and is a clinical advisor to the company helping to ever improve its safety and patient experience.