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Professor Kuntal Chakraverty
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Working Group Chair
Professor Chakraverty is founder of the musculoskeletal group and has built a multidisciplinary group of high calibre.
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Dr A Nizar
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Dr A Samanta
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Consultant Rheumatologist
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Dr Adebajo Ade
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Dr Ira Pande
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Consultant Rheumatologist
Dr. Pande is a Consultant Rheumatologist and Honorary Lecturer at the Nottingham University Hospital.
She graduated from King George’s Medical College, Lucknow (India) and then did her higher training in Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (India) where she was subsequently appointed as Assistant Professor. However, she moved to the UK to pursue her research interests.
She subsequently trained in Bath and Truro and it is during this period that that she developed her interest in Osteoporosis and was awarded a PhD by the University of London for her work on Osteoporosis in Men at King’s College London.
Her other interests are Connective Tissue Diseases, Joint injection techniques and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound. She is also on the Faculty for the Royal College of Physicians “Taking Knowledge Overseas” initiative. She has close links with the Indian Rheumatology Association.
In addition to active contribution towards CME activities and the annual national meeting she is on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Rheumatology. In her capacity as President of the Indo-UK Rheumatology Forum she has set up a travelling fellowship, which, sponsors an Indian rheumatology trainee to attend an international rheumatology congress of their choice and work in a unit in the UK to further their interest.
With her experience in working with Asians in India and the UK she is an active member of the steering committee for Musculoskeletal health of the SAHF.
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Dr Kris Ghosh
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Consultant Physician/Geriatrician
Dr Ghosh is a Consultant Physician/Geriatrician and Stroke Specialist at University Hospital,Coventry. His clinical interests are osteoporosis, stroke and diabetes in older people. His hobbies are listening to music, watching dance, sports and medical soaps with a passion.
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Dr Michael Irani
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Dr Minha Rajput-Ray
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NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) in Rheumatology
Dr Minha Rajput-Ray is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) in Rheumatology at the University of Manchester.
Minha was born and grew up in Kenya, however has ancestral origins from India and is thus keen to promote the objectives of SAHF.
Having gained a First Class BSc (Hons) in Osteopathic Medicine from London she read Medicine at the University of Dundee where she was part of a team that researched post-amputation pain, based on data collected by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Sierra Leone. Minha continued to develop an interest in the management of pain in poorly resourced settings (including poorly accessible patient populations). During this time, she was invited to give musculoskeletal health talks to members of the South Asian community both in London and Scotland.
Furthermore, as part of an International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) programme, she contributed to teaching at the inaugural meeting of the Kenyan Association for the Study of Pain and led the first epidemiological survey of healthcare professionals’ view of pain in Kenya which identified various barriers to pain management (including musculoskeletal pain) in a non-caucasian Kenyan based population.
Meanwhile, Dr Rajput-Ray looks forward to working to promote musculoskeletal health within the UK South Asian population.
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Dr R Adur
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GP
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Mr D Prakash
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Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon
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Mr R Plaha
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Mrs J Dasgupta
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Mrs Kanta Kumar
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NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow
Kanta Kumar qualified from the School of Nursing Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham in 1996. She specialised in rheumatology as a nurse specialist in 2001. In 2003 she took up a post as a nurse researcher and developed a profile of research around the issues related to ethnicity in musculoskeletal practice. She has a track record of publications in this area of work. She has been awarded a Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow award in 2010 for three years from the NIHR. Her PhD work will focus on the issues related to adherence to pharmacological therapies and the influence of ethnicity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. She has been awarded a RCN 2011 joint award with Birmingham Arthritis Resource Centre(BARC) for the work in South Asian patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Her work has also been recognised by the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) for Patient in Focus 2011. For further information on her research please email k.kumar@bham.ac.uk.
Email: k.kumar@bham.ac.uk
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