Hello & Welcome

Personalised Healthcare Delivered by an Expert Specialist-Led Multidisciplinary Team

Welcome to Synthesis Clinic

Synthesis Clinic is a specialist-led practice offering an award-winning personalised approach to women’s health, adult and Paediatric integrative cancer care and integrative pain care, which champions empowerment with expertise and empathy at its core. 

Founded by Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel, Synthesis Clinic is where the very best of contemporary, cutting-edge precision medicine and precision health is interwoven with evidence-based nutrition, lifestyle, psycho-emotional wellbeing, and complementary therapies. All members of our team meet regularly and work together closely to deliver a personalised and aligned care plan, so that you can benefit from diverse multidisciplinary support without conflict or confusion. 

Whether you need support with your menstrual cycles or menopausal symptoms or have been diagnosed with cancer, we offer specialist-led integrative care that keeps the best of modern medicine and science at its heart but goes far beyond the generic ‘a pill for each ill’ approach. Through working with us, you can gain a detailed understanding of the factors that contribute to your symptoms and health problems and how to tackle them with expert support that dynamically adjusts to your needs, meeting you where you are at. 

Women’s health clinic

We use the Precision Health (including Functional Medicine) and Lifestyle Medicine approaches at our practice, providing personalised healthcare plans based on root causes of illness. We offer a broad range of interventions, from consultant gynaecologist input and nutrition and lifestyle plans to herbal medicine, health coaching, physiotherapy, scar therapy and mental wellbeing support. 

We can help with period and menstrual cycle-related problems, fertility optimisation, antenatal and postnatal care and perimenopause and menopause support. 

Integrative cancer care

Synthesis Clinic is the leading multidisciplinary integrative oncology (integrative cancer care) practice in the UK. Integrative oncology (IO) is a patient-centred, evidence-informed field of cancer care that utilises psychological, nutritional, lifestyle and complementary interventions alongside conventional cancer treatments.

Integrative oncology aims to support better quality of life, improve resilience, minimise the side effects of treatment and improve outcomes.

Break through information overload

Finding legitimate and useful advice amidst conflicting generic soundbites and misinformation about health out there can be really difficult, especially when you are feeling unwell. Our team can help you cut through the confusion, understand your own unique situation, and create a personalised plan that works for you and changes with you, as your needs evolve.

Your personal expert care team

Many of us need support in different areas, from nutrition and exercise to finding the right medical input or psychological support. At Synthesis Clinic you get the chance to co-create your personal care team who work together to create aligned care plans, so that you don’t have to constantly re-explain yourself or try to figure out different opinions from various practitioners. We are not generalists trying to be everything to everyone. Our team are true experts in their field - consultants or specialists with specific training in women’s health and integrative oncology.  

Our
Director

DR NINA FULLER-SHAVEL

Precision Health & Integrative Medicine Doctor

Director of Synthesis Clinic, Head of Integrative Cancer Care

MB BChir (Medicine) and MA Hons Natural Sciences (Cambridge)
MSc Precision Cancer Medicine (Oxford)
FBANT FRSA IFMCP DipIM DipAc DipCHM PGCert DipION RYT200

Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel is an award-winning Oxbridge-trained integrative medicine doctor, scientist and educator with over a decadeʼs experience in integrative healthcare. Alongside her scientific and medical training, Dr Nina holds multiple qualifications in nutrition, integrative medicine, functional medicine, health coaching, herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), yoga, mindfulness and other therapeutic approaches. Dr Fuller-Shavel regularly presents at conferences, as well as being a guest lecturer, participating in research and contributing to guidelines, books and medical journal publications.

Women’s Health

  • Dr Katerina Bambang Functional Medicine Gynaecologist and Fertility Specialist

    Dr Katerina Bambang

    CONSULTANT GYNAECOLOGIST
    PRECISION WOMEN’S HEALTH & LIFESTYLE MEDICINE

    Specialist in Reproductive Medicine

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  • Dr Clementina La Rosa Consultant Endocrinologist Thyroid and Hormone Health

    Dr Clementina La Rosa

    CONSULTANT ENDOCRINOLOGIST AND PAEDIATRICIAN

    SPECIALIST IN reproductive endocrinology

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  • Katy Bradbury Women's Health Nutritionist at Synthesis Clinic

    Katy Bradbury

    BANT REGISTERED NUTRITIONIST AND
    NUTRITIONAL THERAPIST
    WOMEN’S HEALTH

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  • Dr Jennifer Cooney

    HEALTH PHYSIOLOGIST
    CERTIFIED HEALTH AND WELLNESS COACH

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  • Sara Rooney

    MEDICAL HERBALIST
    WOMEN’S HEALTH

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  • Josephine Lowe

    WOMEN’S HEALTH CLINIC COORDINATOR

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Integrative Cancer Care

  • Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel

    PRECISION HEALTH & INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
    HEAD OF INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE
    DIRECTOR OF SYNTHESIS CLINIC

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  • Dr Emma Davies

    PRECISION HEALTH & INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
    INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE

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  • Emma Marshall

    BANT REGISTERED NUTRITIONIST &
    NUTRITIONAL THERAPY PRACTITIONER
    INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE

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  • Olena Jones

    BANT REGISTERED NUTRITIONIST &
    NUTRITIONAL THERAPY PRACTITIONER
    INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE

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  • Aga Kehinde

    HEALTH AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING COACH
    EFT PRACTITIONER AND REGISTERED NURSE

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  • Dr Jennifer Cooney

    HEALTH PHYSIOLOGIST
    CERTIFIED HEALTH AND WELLNESS COACH

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  • Linda Sims

    BANT REGISTERED NUTRITIONIST &
    NUTRITIONAL THERAPY PRACTITIONER
    INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE

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  • Korina Karadimou

    BANT REGISTERED NUTRITIONIST &
    NUTRITIONAL THERAPY PRACTITIONER
    INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE

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  • Sue Skelton

    YOGA THERAPIST
    INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE

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  • Diogo Madureira

    REGISTERED NURSE
    PHLEBOTOMY AND INFUSION SUPPORT
    INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE

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  • Jody Middleton

    INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE
    CLINIC COORDINATOR

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Synthesis Clinic leading integrative oncology and precision women's health practice, showing healthy nutrition, movement, mind-body support, herbal medicine and complementary therapies

Our Approach

PRECISION HEALTH

Precision health takes into account differences in people’s genes, environments and lifestyles and formulates wellbeing support, health promotion and disease treatment strategies based on the individual’s unique backgrounds and conditions. At our clinic we use Functional Medicine as a part of our broader Precision Health approach.

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

Integrative Medicine is a model that synthesises the best of multiple therapeutic approaches, including conventional, psychological, lifestyle medicine and complementary medicine, within a multidisciplinary whole person-centred approach.

Expert integration

The best of all worlds delivered by specialists in women’s health and integrative oncology

Personalisation

Your healthcare plan should be as unique as you are

Collaboration

Our multidisciplinary team works seamlessly together to deliver comprehensive care.

  • “I feel very fortunate to have found the clinic and to be able to access so much clinical knowledge & experience. It is the first time in approx. 12 years that I’ve felt that someone understands all of my issues, can explain them & can actually help. Prior to this, my health problem have been often dismissed as a chronic issue I need to live with. I now have hope that my health & quality of life can improve. In the last year, I feel I have more answers & made more progress than over the last 12 years put together. And for this, I am so grateful.”

    — Patient Testimonial

  • “Dr Nina is the most caring, understanding and experienced practitioner I have worked with. Her approach has given me hope where previously, very few have been able to provide the support & interventions I have needed & certainly not to the clinical level that I am currently receiving.”

    Patient Testimonial

  • “The care I have received at the Synthesis Clinic is nothing less than outstanding. I have regained significant quality of life in spite of having stage 4 cancer. It’s such a relief to be treated as an individual at last, and not another cancer patient who gets the same blanket approach which simply doesn’t work for some of us. This does.”

    — Patient Testimonial

  • “It is such a good feeling to be in partnership with a clinic that reflects how I feel about my health. After my diagnosis, I spent months researching because I just knew there had to be more I could do. It was a while before I found Synthesis Clinic, and up to that point I was discovering a lot of information and so doing a bunch of different stuff without expert backup to know if it was right for me. Fast forward and I now feel confident in my plan, which leaves me free to action it.”

    — Patient Testimonial

  • “I can't believe how different I feel, like a fog has lifted from my brain. I actually feel energised for a change and don't need to force myself to do things. Thank you.”

    — Patient Testimonial

Podcast

The Synthesis Clinic Podcast brings you closer to experts in precision women's health and integrative oncology, as well as sharing stories from our award-winning practice and beyond of real-life resilience, connection, and transformation.

Podcast
Integrative cancer care - meet the team
Integrative cancer care - meet the team
Integration in Women’s Health – Meet the Team
Integration in Women’s Health – Meet the Team
Introduction to Synthesis Clinic, precision health and integrative medicine
Introduction to Synthesis Clinic, precision health and integrative medicine

Journal

Our journal is a mix of expert articles on specific conditions and different support options within women’s healthcare and integrative oncology. 

Dr Nina’s recent events and podcasts

Our Clinic Director and Head of Integrative Cancer Care, Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel, is an international conference speaker, lecturer and a regular podcast guest. Dr Nina participates in research in integrative medicine and precision health and contributes to scientific journal editorial boards and guideline development panels nationally and internationally.

Synthesis Clinic Berkshire

Please note that Synthesis Clinic has moved to 6 Castle End Business Park, Castle End Road, Reading RG10 9XQ. All our medical and supportive care services are now available both online and on-site at Castle End near Reading and Maidenhead and within easy reach of Hampshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

Hours
Monday–Friday
9am–5pm