Dr. Siva is a Consultant Geriatrician at the Royal London Hospital and is also Head of the Trauma and Perioperative Older Person’s Services there. She graduated from the University of Nottingham and undertook Higher Medical Training in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine in the South London region including at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, London and Kings College Hospital, London. She has extensive experience of managing complex patients with multiple co-morbidities including dementia, falls and osteoporosis, in both and inpatient and outpatient setting, providing a holistic and patient centred approach. She is experienced in working jointly with surgeons in the perioperative period (both pre and post operatively) providing medical input to these patients with demonstrable improvements in mortality rates (in hip fracture patients) and reductions in post-operative medical complications. She has experience of collaborating with surgeons in the following specialities: orthopaedics, neurosurgery, plastics, vascular, ear nose and throat, urology, general surgery and trauma.