Meet Our Team

Having graduated with a BA Hons degree in Business, Marketing and Economics and a HNC in Finance and Accountancy in 2002, Daniel started his career a year later when he joined a private sedation practice owned by two of our founding partners.

Daniel has gained wider experience as a consultant to a sports supplement company and a personal training and holistic health centre, and joined Sedation Solutions upon its formation in 2011 as the group manager.

As of April 2022, Daniel is our Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for all Sedation Solutions business operations including planning and implementing its long-term strategy for growth and development. As part of his role, he is our CQC Registered Manager along with Dr Botha as Head of Compliance. 

Katie started her career in the City at the Bank of England, working for 6 years as an Assistant Bank Officer and then worked at MGM/ABC for 3 years in the technical department. Her degree was in French Studies, which also enabled her to work as a French tutor.

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Katie has worked for Sedation Solutions for nearly 16 years, starting as a medical administrator and now working in Business Development. She's seen many changes and significant expansion over the years.

Katie play tennis regularly and represents the 1st teams of 2 clubs. She also enjoys quality time with friends and family (including her 2 little dogs!), reading, theatre, cinema and she endures stressful times watching Chelsea FC!

Dr Andre von Backstrom is a medical doctor who qualified in 1988 at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has a diploma in sedation and pain control and was clinical assistant anaesthetist at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. Andre has been involved in medical and dental anaesthesia and sedation since 1991 and has carried out in excess of 60 000 general anaesthetics and sedations. He has been at the forefront of the development of sedation in private dental and medical settings. He prides himself in his bedside manner to make patients at ease before administering sedation. 

He is married to an NHS Cardiac Rehabilitation Physiotherapist and has three grown up children.

In his off time he is a keen golfer and tennis player and enjoys skiing and Game watching whenever holiday opportunities arise.

After gaining his B.Med.Sci degree from the University of Pretoria, André went on to complete his M.BCh.B at the same institution. Following a year as a doctor in the gold mines in SA, he travelled extensively over the following 7 years, practicing medicine in Canada and Greece. This included sailing the seas as a cruise ship’s surgeon, resident ski resort physician in the Rockies, general practitioner in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, and as a flying doctor treating Inuit communities in the remote Northern Territories of Canada.

On his return to South Africa he spent 5 years rotating through departments of Opthalmology, Psychiatry, Orthopaedic surgery, A&E, Obstetrics, Radiology and eventually Anaesthetics. Since his arrival in the UK in 1995, he has involved himself on a full-time basis with the administration of conscious sedation since 1997. He was a founder member of the Society of Conscious Sedation in 1999, and gained his Postgraduate Diploma in Conscious Sedation from the University of Stellenbosch in 2002. André was coordinator of the UCL Eastman CPD Postgraduate Certificate in Sedation and Pain Management from 2005 - 2015.

His other passion is photography, for which he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society in 2015.    

Dr. Will Botha qualified as a medical doctor from the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2001 and moved to the U.K in 2003. He became involved in dental sedation soon after arriving in the U.K, practicing in NHS and private dental surgeries treating both adult and paediatric patients. This allowed him to accumulate considerable experience in the field. In 2008 he completed a post-graduate diploma in sedation and pain control under the tutorship of Prof. James Roelofse, architect of the sedation training program at the University of the Western Cape and the Eastman Dental Hospital at University College London.

In 2011 he was one of the founding partners of Sedation Solutions LLP, providing sedation services to leading private clinics in London and the South East of England. He also works closely with the award winning Toothbeary Dental Practice Richmond (London), where he is the lead sedationist, providing advanced IV sedation for children.

Dr. Botha, along with some of his colleagues at Sedation Solutions, also works closely with a leading facial cosmetic surgeon at The Centre for Facial Cosmetic Surgery in Harley Street, where they perform advanced surgery under intravenous sedation.

Outside his professional life, Will is married and with 3 young boys, is kept quite active when not at work, especially during the summer cricket season. Will also enjoys long distance running and being in the outdoors as much as possible.

Dr. Azher Ashraf is a Partner at Sedation Solutions. He is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Sedation Lead at Kingston Hospital and is the current President of the Association of Dental Anaesthetists and Sedationists.

After graduating from Cambridge University (2005) and University College London (2008), Azher spent his initial medical years in Oxford and then Australia. On returning to the UK, Azher completed anaesthetics training from the Oxford and then London Schools of Anaesthesia. In the process, he served at several prestigious institutions including the John Radcliffe, UCLH, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, St. Bartholomew's and Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital.   

Azher joined the Sedation Solutions family back in 2016. Here he honed his passion for the safe and effective delivery of Sedation in the dental setting. In 2022, he was welcomed and honoured to become a Partner at Sedation Solutions. 

Azher participates in consensus-based UK dental sedation policy development. He often speaks at sedation Conferences and Webinars and has a strong interest in teaching and education. He has previously worked as the Programme Director for Dental Sedation and Pain management at UCL Eastman Dental Institute, including running the 1-year Post Graduate Certificate course, where he helped Dentists and Doctors take their first steps in sedation.  

Azher considers himself a warm and empathetic Doctor. He feels suited to looking after anxious patients, helping them through their procedures and distracting them by hearing their stories.  

Outside his professional life, Azher is married with two young boys. He enjoys family time, travelling and exploring different parts of the world.

Dr Ingrid Bosch completed her primary medical degree at the University of Free State, South Africa, in 1982. Following her internship year, she worked as a General Practitioner in the Department of Family Practice at the University of Free State. Dr Bosch took a career break to raise the family’s four daughters, during a time encompassing the family’s move to the UK.

In 1997, she returned to practice, joining her husband, Dr G Bosch, in their Anaesthetic and Sedation Practice. She also held the position of partner at a private General Practice based in Putney, London, from 2000 to 2003.

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Dr Bosch practices part-time to enable her to spend valuable time with her grandchildren in London. She is a keen cook and enjoys participating in regular exercise classes with friends.

Sali is a full time NHS Consultant Anaesthetist, working at CTC-Basildon where he performs anaesthetic procedures for patients undergoing cardiac or thoracic surgical operations.

Sali has a European Certificate of TOE (Trans-Oesophageal Echocardiography) and training for ultrasound examination. He has been working for Sedation Solutions since 2015.

Sali performs conscious sedation procedures mainly for dental surgery and deeply enjoys the professional relationship with a team where the care for the patient is at highest level.

Dr Nisha Bhudia qualified from University of Leicester Medical School in 2006 and has been an anaesthetist since 2011 having trained at many of the major teaching hospitals in London.

She has a specialist interest in airway anaesthesia and sedation and has been an associate at Sedation Solutions since 2019. 

She is enthusiastic about teaching and nurtures this interest by lecturing at the UCL Eastman dental institute on the postgraduate diploma for dental sedation and teaching on European Paediatric Life Support courses. 

Outside of her clinical work Nisha enjoys cycling and yoga.

Dr Mohammed Jawad is a Consultant Anaesthetist working across North West London. He joined Sedation Solutions in 2019 and has now completed over 1000 hours of sedation.

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He was the President of the Association of Dental Anaesthetists and Sedationists between 2022 and 2024. He oversaw two successful annual conferences, a referendum to change the name (from Association of Dental Anaesthetists) as well as the introduction of regular educational webinars.

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His passion is sedation and was lead for sedation at Charing Cross Hospital (2021-2023). He has taught at numerous sedation courses including at the Royal Brompton, he founded the Imperial sedation Study day and taught as a lecturer at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute diploma in dental sedation.

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Along with Dr Azher Ashraf, Mohammed has designed a new pioneering scale to monitor the depth of sedation. This will further enhance the ability to titrate and provide an effective and safe sedation for your dental procedure.

Dr Max Hodges is a Consultant Anaesthetist. He graduated from Bristol University in 2000 and worked in the Southwest of England and Australia before settling in the Midlands to complete his anaesthetic training. He was appointed to a consultant post at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust in 2013 where his anaesthetic work is focused on the 3 ‘O’s – Orthopaedics, Ophthalmics and Obstetrics with the latter being his passion.

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Max joined Sedation Solutions in 2018 as an associate and hugely enjoys the varied practice and staff and patient interactions that dental sedation provides. Whilst working in the Greater London area, he has been working to expand Sedation Solutions provision within the Midlands.

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Outside of work, Max is married with three children and a large Bernese Mountain Dog. His hobbies include golf, skiing and beekeeping.

Originally from Glasgow, Garry graduated from Bristol University Medical School in 2006, and has worked in both the public and private sector in the UK, Australia as well as a short stint in Papua New Guinea.

He is an anaesthetic doctor working mostly in the NHS in East London, and has a subspecialty interest in Chronic Pain.

Dr Carmen Foster, is a dedicated and compassionate sedationist, who graduated from WITS University, South Africa, with an MBBCh in 2015. Carmen then honed her skills during internship and community service at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, the largest hospital in Africa. She then gained extensive experience in private South African A&E departments, before relocating to the UK in 2020.

Now serving as a Senior Anaesthetic and Intensive Care doctor in South West London, Carmen prides herself on making her patients feel at ease even before the sedation begins!

In her free time, she enjoys scenic country walks, Pilates and cooking up feasts for family and friends.