Dr Ravi Rajakariar

 Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Consultant renal physician and Lead Clinician for Dialysis, London Bridge Hospital (present)
• Lead clinician for renal medicine, London Bridge Hospital (present)
• Consultant, BMI Sloane Hospital (present)
• Consultant nephrologist and physician, Holly Hospital (present)
• Consultant nephrologist, Barts Health NHS Trust (2008 - present)

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 Sub-specialties

• Nephrology
• General medicine
• Diabetic nephropathy
• Dialysis
• Kindney transplantation
• Lupus
• Nephropathy
• Hypertension

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 Positions in public associations

• North London Clinical Advisory Group, Member (Present)
• Renal Clinical Reference Group (NHSE), Member (Present)

 Teaching posts

• Academic Year Tutor, Queen Mary University of London School of Medicine
• Educational supervisor for junior doctors, Queen Mary University of London School of Medicine
• Postgraduate training at Barts Health, London

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 Education

• BSc (Hons), University of Leicester (1993)
• MB ChB (Hons), University of Leicester (1995)
• FRCP (UK)
• PhD, William Harvey Research Institute, University of London (2014)

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 Publications and conferences

• Has published in numerous prestigious peer reviewed journals
• Pakozdi A, Rajakariar R, Pyne D, Cove-Smith A, Yaqoob MM. Systematic Review and the External Validity of Randomized Controlled Trials in Lupus Nephritis. Kidney Int Rep. 2017;3(2):403-411.
• Muthuppalaniappan VM, Rajakariar R, Blunden MJ. Leptospirosis presenting as haemolytic uraemic syndrome: a case report. BMC Nephrol. 2018;19(1):20
• Pakozdi A, Pyne D, Sheaff M, Rajakariar R. Utility of a repeat renal biopsy in lupus nephritis: a single centre experience. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2018;33(3):507-513
• Alston D, Rajakariar R, Sheaff M, Lever N. Concurrent granulomatous polyangiitis and squamous cell carcinoma of the lung: a case of balancing treatment. BMJ Case Rep. 2016;2016:10 Levene S, Levene CA, Makanjuola D, Rajakariar R. Recruitment of renal transplant patients into patrolling police 4 roles using orthotic shields. BMJ Case Rep. May 30, 2014
• Hartley A, Rajakariar R, Sheaff M, Buckland M, Goh B, O'Connell R. Syphilis masquerading as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Int J STD AIDS. 25: 529-531, 2014
• Forbes SH, Robert SC, Martin JE, Rajakariar R. Quiz page January 2012- Acute kidney injury with hematuria, a positive ANCA test and low levels of complement Am J Kidney Dis. 59 :A28-31, 201
• Rajakariar R, Newson J, Jackson EK, Sawmynaden P, Smith A, Rahman F, Yaqoob MM, Gilroy DW. Nonresolving inflammation in gp91phox-/- mice, a model of human chronic granulomatous disease, has lower adenosine and cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate. J Immunol. 182:3262-9, 2009
• Ravindra Rajakariar, Toby Lawrence , Jonas Bystrom, Mark Hilliard, Paul Colville-Nash, Geoff Bellingan, Desmond Fitzgerald, Muhammad M Yaqoob and Derek W Gilroy. Novel biphasic role for lymphocytes revealed during resolving inflammation. Blood 111:4184-92, 2008
• Ravindra Rajakariar, Mark Hilliard, Toby Lawrence, Paul Colville-Nash, Geoff Bellingan, Desmond Fitzgerald, Muhammad M Yaqoob and Derek W Gilroy. Haematopoietic prostaglandin D2 synthase controls the onset, resolution and post-resolution susceptibility to injury and infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104: 20979-84, 2007. [ Editorial by Oliver Howarth and Christopher Buckley, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104: 20647-20648, 2007.]
• Soloman AW. Rajakariar R, Sheaff M and Fan SL. Lymphoma masquerading as a peritoneal dialysis catheter leak. Kidney International. 72 : 904, 2007
• Morris T, Rajakariar R, Stables M and Gilroy DW. Not all eicosanoids are bad. Trends Pharmacol Sci. 27: 609-611, 2006
• Rajakariar R, Yaqoob MM and Gilroy DW. COX-2 in Inflammation and Resolution. Mol Interv. 6:199-207, 2006.
• Rajakariar R, Sharples EJ, Raftery MJ, Sheaff M, Yaqoob MM. Sarcoid tubulo-interstitial nephritis: Long-term outcome and response to corticosteroid therapy. Kidney Int. 70:165-9, 2006. [Cited in research highlights section of Nature Clinical Practice- Nephrology]
• Trivedi SG, Newson J, Rajakariar R, Jacques TS, Hannon R, Kanaoka Y, Eguchi N, Colville-Nash P, Gilroy DW. Essential role for hematopoietic prostaglandin D2 synthase in the control of delayed type hypersensitivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103: 5179-84, 2006.
• Rajakariar R, Naina Jivanji, Mira Varagunam, Mohammad Rafiq, Arun Gupta, Michael Sheaff, Paul Sinnott and MM Yaqoob. High pre-transplant soluble CD30 levels are predictive of the grade of rejection. Am J Transplant 5:1922-5. 2005.
• Rajakariar R, Bhattacharyya M, Norton A, Sheaff M, Cavenagh J, Raftery MJ, Yaqoob MM. Post transplant T-cell lymphoma: a case series of four patients from a single unit and review of the literature. Am J Transplant 4: 1534-8, 2004.
• R Rajakariar and Magdi Yaqoob Strategies for the prevention and treatment of diabetic nephropathy [Review] Cardiabetes July 2002
• Rajakariar R and Rosemary A. Walker, Pathological and biological features of mammographically detected invasive breast carcinomas. British Journal of Cancer 71: 150-154, 1995.
• Rosemary A Walker , Rajakariar R and K.A. Dookeran, Comparison of pS2 and Cathepsin D in primary breast carcinomas. The Breast 4: 137-142, 1995

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 Professional membership

• American Society of Nephrologists
• Royal College of Physicians
• Medical Protection Society

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