Meet Our Team
Every team member at The Nightingale Clinic is committed to providing our patients with high-quality care and seamless results. We offer a targeted suite of dental care delivered by professionals with a reputation for excellence.
Our Dentists
Dr James Matthee
James gained the BChD Degree from the University of Pretoria in 1984. He always had a passion for orthodontics and surgical dentistry. He was one of the founding members of The Nightingale Clinic in 1993. In 2001, he completed the Prosthetic and Surgical programs in Implantology at the world-renowned Misch International Institute for Implantology in the USA.
James is very active in pursuing up to date knowledge and attends many lectures and courses every year. He is also keen to learn and share current knowledge and progress refining procedures to provide the best possible up to date service available.
Dr Robert Kaszas
Robert provided general dentistry in East and North East London since 1996. He joined The Nightingale Clinic in 2014, and provides pre-treatment triage as well as minor oral surgery procedures on referral.
Robert is very active in pursuing up to date knowledge and attends many conferences, lectures and courses every year.
Dr Daniel Van Der Westhuizen
Dan graduated from the University of Pretoria in 1984. His professional career started as a dental officer in the South African Medical Services. In 1986, he established his own private practice where he practised for 11 years.
In 1997, Dan relocated to the UK where he provided NHS general dental services in East London for five years. From 2002 until 2021 he worked in his own flagship practice in Danbury, where he excelled in all areas of dentistry, including surgical dentistry.
Dan joined The Nightingale Clinic in 2021 and accepts patients on referral for minor oral surgery procedures.
Outside of Dentistry, Dan is a dedicated beekeeper and enjoys fly fishing.
Dr Ravi Rathod
GDC No. 289686
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Dr Naveen Sunkada
BDS Manipal 1999
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Dr Gerard Gillan
GDC No. 66617
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Dr Wouter De Vos
Wouter qualified as a dentist in 1995 at the University of Pretoria. His first appointment as a dentist was at The Nightingale Clinic. Since then, he has become a senior partner of The Nightingale Clinic.
He has a special interest in orthodontics and sedation.
Wouter is very active in pursuing up-to-date knowledge and has been awarded a diploma as well as a Master of Science in Sedation and Pain Control.
Since joining The Nightingale Clinic, Wouter has had many years of experience treating both NHS and private patients. Making people confident about their smiles is what makes him enjoy what he does every day. Seeing a nervous patient after their treatment, relaxed and relieved is a very rewarding experience for him.
Dr Claire Marshall
Claire started her studies achieving an Honours degree in Human Biology from King’s College, London, graduating in 1996 having completed a dissertation in ‘Cryptorchidism, male infertility and cancer’. After travelling, she moved on to study dentistry, and graduated as a dental surgeon with a BDS degree from Bart’s and the Royal London Hospital in 2002.
Following work as an NHS general dentist, she became a senior house officer in oral and maxillofacial (head and neck) surgery at Oldchurch Hospital (now Queen’s) in Romford, Essex. Her role included working in outpatient hospital clinics, as well as in A&E, dealing with facial trauma, TMJ dysfunction, cancer and complex oral surgery. She subsequently returned to the Royal London Hospital as a senior house officer in paediatric dentistry where she worked with children and their complex medical and dental needs. She then decided to specialise in the study of the developing head, neck, dentition and jaws as an orthodontist.
She undertook a three-year orthodontic specialist registrar training programme at The Royal London Hospital, and completed her Master’s degree in Orthodontics with a dissertation in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea in 2006. She completed her training in 2007, and was awarded her membership in orthodontics from the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Claire has previously worked in private practice in Chelsea and Canary Wharf. She has worked at The Nightingale Clinic since 2009 in both private and NHS orthodontics.
Dr Ben Marlow
Having graduated from Leeds University in 2010, Ben stayed locally, working as both an NHS dentist in Bradford and a maxillofacial (head and neck) senior house officer at the Bradford Royal Infirmary.
After seven years in the North of England, Ben decided enough was enough. He couldn’t take any more rain, and headed south to London. Ben worked for two years as a community dental officer, providing treatment to those in society who found it most difficult to access care. During this time, he visited care homes and housebound patients, providing dentistry to people who otherwise would have had no means of receiving it. Ben was also in charge of providing a weekly service to homeless patients in Hackney alongside care for those with drink or drug habits via a mobile dental unit.
It was here Ben learned to provide treatment under both IV sedation and gas and air, for patients suffering from extreme dental phobia. Being given the time to build a strong rapport with a nervous patient, and then being able to successfully provide them with a new-found confidence in dentists (and a great new smile) has to be one of the most rewarding roles he has had to date.
It was after these two years Ben began his specialty training as an orthodontist at the Eastman Dental Institute, London. He spent three years there, learning about all things brace related and successfully graduated in 2017. He had the chance to complete an MSc during his time at the Eastman, investigating Ethical Advertising in Orthodontics, and how the use of social media is affecting our speciality.
Ben now works as a specialist orthodontist at The Nightingale Clinic, providing NHS and private orthodontics, which includes Invisalign treatment.
Nikhil Joshi
BDS Queen Mary University of London 2017
GDC No. 272123
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Dr Shiraz Khan
Shiraz received his Bachelor of Dentistry from Karachi Medical and Dental College in 2004. His studies expanded, and in 2010, Shiraz took the overseas registration exam for the GDC in the UK. In that same year, he gained membership of faculty of general dental practice through the Royal College of Surgeons of England. By 2017, Shiraz obtained his MSc Oral Surgery through the University of Central Lancashire.
Since receiving his BDS, Shiraz has been a voluntary clinical lecturer, senior house officer in oral and maxillofacial at New Cross Hospital, a general dental practitioner, mentor for vocational training, and level two clinical caseworker for COVID patients isolating at home.
He is a member of several industry organisations, including Faculty of Dental Surgery, LDC Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, East Anglia Oral Surgery MCN, the British Dental Association, and Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry.
Shiraz is a keen sportsman and enjoys playing football and cricket. He also enjoys countryside travelling within the United Kingdom and abroad.
Sedationists
Smit Engelbrecht
Smit qualified in 1974 at The University of Pretoria, and spent his initial years in clinical academical anaesthetic training. He worked mainly in general anaesthetics in private practice up to 1996, when he moved to the UK to join the Nightingale team.
Smit has now been working at The Nightingale Clinic for 25 years as our resident sedationist.
Compliance and Revalidation
Professor Emeritus James Roelofse
Professor James Roelofse qualified as an anaesthetist from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (cum laude). He was awarded a PhD in Anaesthesia from the same university and is a Diplomate of the National Dental Board of Anaesthesiology. He was a visiting professor at University College London (UCL), responsible for developing sedation training programmes, and is the Programme Director of a Postgraduate Certificate in Sedation and Pain Control at UCL. He is a professor at the University of Stellenbosch and University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
He spent most of his academic career in developing sedation training programmes for healthcare professionals in procedural sedation and analgesia. This started at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch with a Postgraduate Diploma in Sedation and Pain Control, and a research Masters degree. Since 2004 this diploma has been offered at the University of the Western Cape.
James is currently the programme director of a PG Certificate in Sedation and Pain Control at the University of Free State, Bloemfontein. In 2016 one of his postgraduate students graduated with a PhD in Sedation and Pain Control. He is the President of the South African Society of Sedation Practitioners (SOSPOSA), a SIG (Special Interest Group) of the South African Society of Anesthesiologists.
He wrote the 2015/2016 SASA Adults/Children Guidelines on procedural sedation and analgesia. He is an executive member of the International Committee for the Advancement of Procedural Sedation (ICAPS) and an academic advisor for Sedation Solutions, UK where he regularly writes sedation articles for the knowledge hub. A monthly article is also written for the Journal of the Dental Association of South Africa on continuous education in sedation. He is the author of more than 163 scientific articles and wrote chapters in the handbooks “Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Theater” (Harvard University), and “Management of Pain and Anxiety in the Dental Office”.
Therapists
Ieva Sakalauskaite
Anthonia Eloise Hindson
Razza Salim
Management
Marie O’Hanlon
Laura Daniels
Barbara Siekierska
Nurses
Ana-Maria Miu
Alicja Patek
Irina Ruschev
Skaidre Baranauskiene
Paula Ciocirlan
Rita Skukauskiene
Dental Nurse
Vera Capatina
Madalina Circiumaru
Sarah Mota
Roxana Tertelici
Aurora Rotila
Dental Hygienists
Papri Saha
Rositsa Gradeva-Stoeva
GDC No. 305107
Reception
Sadie McCrudden
Receptionist
Casey McCarthy
Olivia Carvell
Amie Clutterbuck
Cleaners
Jaime Roworth
Corina Bodgan
Daytime Cleaner