Dr George (Gio)Shidrawi

Obstetrics and gynaecology doctor and founder, based in London. Building SynthiCare, an AI clinical decision support platform accepted for NICE review, and Medicum Clinics, a multi-city private care concept, alongside research in early pregnancy care.

Founder, SynthiCare Co-founder, Medicum Clinics Obstetrics & gynaecology
Portrait of Dr George Shidrawi
London
University of Leeds Chelsea and Westminster Hospital West Middlesex University Hospital Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's University of Miami University of Tokyo Homerton Healthcare Queen Mary University of London St Paul's School

At a glance.

Clinical training across London teaching hospitals, two live companies, and research in early pregnancy and maternity care.

Where I've trained

  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChelsea and Westminster Hospital, West Middlesex University Hospital
  • Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustObstetrics and gynaecology, East of England
  • University of LeedsMBChB, Leeds Medical School
  • Centre for Reproductive and Genetic HealthHonorary research year, London

SynthiCare

Accepted for NICE review

AI clinical decision support, integrated through NHS Digital FHIR APIs.

Medicum Clinics

RiyadhDohaDubaiLondon

Private medical centres, modelled city by city.

Companies founded

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since 2016, two live today

Research and quality improvement

0projects
0manuscripts
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Three languages, fluently

Hello, I'm Gio. Good to meet you.

London

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The business side.

Five companies across health AI, private care, fintech and marketing. Two live today, and a front-line clinical view of what makes a product work in practice.

Since 2016

First company at fifteen. Still building.

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0live today
0sectors: health AI, private care, fintech, marketing
0cities modelled for Medicum

Founder, live

SynthiCare

AI clinical decision support, built to sit inside the NHS

Streamlines diagnostic work-up and clinical management, integrating scanning technology and digital imaging to guide investigation and diagnosis. Connected through NHS Digital FHIR APIs so it lives inside existing systems rather than beside them.

Accepted for NICE reviewNHS Digital FHIR integrationClinical validation planned
Open to pilots, integration partners and investmentDetails

Co-founder, live

Medicum Clinics

Private medical centres, modelled city by city

A multi-city private medical centre concept with a full financial model built alongside the venture's CFO, covering four city configurations end to end before a single door opens.

RiyadhDohaDubaiLondon
Open to conversations with partners, operators and investorsDetails

Founder

OVARA

AI for fertility care

An AI-driven fertility platform, and the earliest expression of the reproductive medicine and technology thread that now runs through SynthiCare.

FertilityMachine learningPatient-facing
Earlier ventureDetails

Founder, 2018 to 2024

SimPay

Money across borders, over SMS

A fintech company using blockchain for international transfers. Its system allowed digital currency transactions over SMS servers, faster and cheaper than the incumbents, and it built partnerships with multiple fintech firms in B2B payments.

BlockchainSMS transactionsB2B partnerships
2018 to 2024Details

Founder, 2016 to 2018

AddySocial

The first company, at fifteen

A digital marketing agency specialising in brand growth and online engagement, started while still at school.

Brand growthOnline engagementClient work
ClosedDetails

What I bring to a company

  • Clinical realityFront-line NHS medicine, and the judgement to know what clinicians will actually use
  • Product that has met a regulatorSynthiCare taken from concept to acceptance for NICE review
  • Integration and modellingNHS Digital FHIR APIs, and multi-city financial models built to investor standard
  • Markets and languagesLondon and the Gulf, in English, Arabic and French

Research and quality improvement.

Audits, reviews and improvement projects, mostly in early pregnancy and maternity care. Slide through, and open any of them for the detail.

Early Pregnancy Unit, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Point-of-care β-hCG at the bedside, checked against the laboratory

0paired encounters compared

A clinical audit of bedside β-hCG against central laboratory results, showing strong concordance between the two.

First-author manuscript in preparationDetails
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital

Urgent maternity care outside the labour ward

0pregnant patients attending emergency and urgent care

A quality improvement project on VTE prophylaxis and early warning scoring for pregnant women presenting to emergency settings.

Presented at MBRRACE-UK 2025Details
Systematic review and meta-analysis

Hyaluronan-enriched transfer medium in IVF

Does EmbryoGlue improve embryo transfer outcomes compared with low or no hyaluronic acid?

In progressDetails
Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health

Saline infusion in cervical ultrasound

Improving visualisation of endometrial polyps, and potentially reducing the need for hysteroscopy.

Research yearDetails
Clinical audit

C. difficile before and during COVID-19

How infection rates, infection control and antibiotic stewardship changed through the pandemic.

CompletedDetails
Quality improvement project

Teaching foundation doctors to use Horus

A structured teaching session on the foundation e-portfolio, measured for knowledge retention and efficiency.

CompletedDetails

The path so far.

From school in London to medical school in Leeds, foundation training in west London, and now specialty training in obstetrics and gynaecology.

12014 to 2019

St Paul's School

London

  • A levels in mathematics, chemistry and biology
  • House Captain and student leadership
  • Founded and led medical societies for students heading into medicine
22019 to 2024

Leeds Medical School

University of Leeds, MBChB

  • Medical degree, with international clinical exposure in neurosurgery, gastroenterology and gynaecology
  • Intensive surgical skills training at Queen Mary University of London, 2023
32024 to 2025

Foundation Year 1

West Middlesex University Hospital

  • Community psychiatry
  • Gastroenterology
  • Orthogeriatrics
42025 to 2026

Foundation Year 2

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

  • Oncology
  • Intensive care
  • Emergency medicine
52026 onwards

Obstetrics and gynaecology

Specialty training, East of England

  • Training across obstetrics, gynaecology and early pregnancy care
  • Research in point-of-care testing and urgent maternity care continuing alongside
  • Long-term interests in reproductive medicine and minimally invasive surgery

Placements and observerships

Miami, USAUniversity of Miami Hospital

Skull base and cerebrovascular neurosurgery with Dr Jacques Morcos, observing advanced operative technique.

Tokyo, JapanUniversity of Tokyo

Hands-on exposure to the latest endoscopic techniques for early-stage gastric cancer.

LondonHammersmith and Queen Charlotte's

Assisted in gynaecological oncology theatre, including fertility-preserving surgery for complex dermoid cysts.

LondonHomerton Healthcare

Gastroenterology placement with hands-on experience of endoscopic procedures.

LondonCentre for Reproductive and Genetic Health

A year as an honorary researcher in reproductive medicine, focused on ultrasound and endometrial polyps.

Where this is heading.

Three subspecialty directions, each with a foot already in the door.

Reproductive medicine

Fertility and early pregnancy care, from assisted conception through to the first scan. The EmbryoGlue review and the research year at CRGH both sit here.

Building on a long-standing interest in fertility, and in preserving it during surgery.

Advanced endometriosis surgery

Complex laparoscopic surgery for deep endometriosis, where careful excision changes pain, fertility and quality of life for years.

The long-term route runs through BSGE-accredited endometriosis centres.

Robotic gynaecological surgery

Robot-assisted approaches to benign and oncological gynaecological surgery, with better visualisation and finer control in confined spaces.

Drawn by the overlap between surgical precision and the technology that enables it.

Skills and certifications.

Clinical

  • Advanced Life SupportALS certified
  • Emergency, intensive care and oncologyFoundation posts
  • EndoscopyHomerton, Tokyo
  • Surgical skillsQMUL, 2023
  • Cerner, Rio, NervecentreClinical systems

Research and data

  • Clinical audit and quality improvement
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Statistical analysis and reporting
  • Scientific writingTwo manuscripts in preparation
  • Health economics of testingPoint-of-care β-hCG

Business and product

  • Founding and running companiesFive since 2016
  • AI product developmentSynthiCare, OVARA
  • Regulatory pathwaysNICE, NHS Digital
  • NHS Digital FHIR integration
  • Financial modellingMedicum Clinics
  • Payments and fintechSimPay

Languages

  • EnglishFluent
  • ArabicFluent, Lebanese
  • FrenchFluent

Off duty

Consumer tech, football, and a fiercely contested family quiz night. Host for the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon (CCCL).

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