Dr Anand Velusamy

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology, HCA The Shard, London Bridge Hospital (present)
• Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology,120 Old Broad Street Private Diagnostics and Treatment (present)
• Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology / General and Internal medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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 Sub-specialties

• Blood Glucose Monitoring
• Adrenal Disease
• Acromegaly or Gigantism
• Addison’s Disease
• Cushing’s Syndrome
• Fine Needle Thyroid Biopsy
• Pituitary Function Test
• Synacthen Test
• Diabetes Insipidus
• Endocrine Hypertension
• Graves’ Disease
• Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
• Hormone Disorders (Male)
• Hormone Imbalances and Disorders (Female)
• Hyperthyroidism
• Low Blood Pressure
• Menopause
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Parathyroid Disease
• Pituitary Disorders
• Prolactinoma
• Pulmonary Embolism (Lung Blood Clot)
• Thyroid Nodules
• Variable Blood Pressure
• Vitamin D Deficiency

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 Teaching posts

• Clinical supervisor in endocrinology at Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust for intercalated BSc students, Kings College since 2018
• Regular lectures and bedside teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate students, trainees and nurse specialists. 
• Regular supervision for 1 intercalated BSc student on annual basis for clinical research in PPGL
• Clinical and Educational supervision for Specialist Registrars, core medical and Foundation year trainees

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 Education

• Completion of specialist training in Endocrinology and Diabetes / General and Internal medicine (CCT) 2015
• Specialty Certificate Examination (SCE), Endocrinology (2013)
• Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP UK) 2006
• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Science (MBBS), MGR Medical University, Tamilnadu, India (2002)

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 Publications and conferences

• Genetic testing for hereditary hyperparathyroidism and Familial Hypocalciuric Hypercalcaemia in a large UK cohort, Clinical endocrinology (May 2020)
• Imaging Features of Succinate Dehydrogenase–deficient Pheochromocytoma, Paraganglioma Syndromes Radiographics (September 2019)
• Chapter, Disease severity and staging of obesity – A rational approach to patient selection and post-operative follow up, Current Atherosclerosis reports (November 2014)
• What is the best way of assessing neuro-cognitive dysfunction in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism?, JCEM (January 2014)
• Familial clustering of HNF1B and T1DM, BJDVD (September 2015)
• Chapter, Glucose monitoring and Insulin replacement therapy, Medicine Journal (December 2014)
• When to suspect 'funny diabetes', Clinical Medicine (January 2014)
• SDHC phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma: A UK-wide case series, Clinical endocrinology (Oxf), doi: 10.1111/cen.14594, September 24 (2021)
• Investigating the role of somatic sequencing platforms for phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma in a large UK cohort, Clinical endocrinology (December 2021)
• Bladder paragangliomas: a pictorial review, Abdom Radiol (NY) doi: 10.1007/s00261-022-03443-2, February 14 (2022)
• Tumour detection and outcomes of surveillance screening in SDHB and SDHD pathogenic variant carriers, Endocr Connect,16;11(2):e210602. doi: 10.1530/EC-21-0602 (February 2022)
• Post-RadioIodine Graves’ management: The PRAGMA study, Clinical Endocrinology, doi: 10.1111/cen.14719 (2022)

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 Prizes and awards

• “Effective use of U500 insulin pump in severely insulin resistant patients” - Oral presentation at the annual American Diabetes conference (ADA) 2014
• What Is the Best Way of Assessing Neurocognitive Dysfunction in Patients With Primary Hyperparathyroidism? Paul Grant and Anand Velusamy. (2014)
• Disease Severity and Staging of Obesity: a Rational Approach to Patient Selection M. B. Whyte & S. Velusamy & S. J. B. Aylwin. (2014)
• When to suspect ‘funny’ diabetes. Paul Grant, Anand Velusamy, Ellen Thomas and Ali J Chakera. (2014)
• Genetic testing for hereditary hyperparathyroidism and familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia in a large UK cohort. Sashi Mariathasan, Katrina A. Andrews, Edward Thompson, Ben G. Challis, Sarah Wilcox, Heather Pierce, Julia Hale, Sarah Spiden, Gavin Fuller, Helen L. Simpson, Brian Fish, Piyush Jani, Ian Seetho, Ruth Armstrong, Louise Izatt, Mamta Joshi, Anand Velusamy, Soo-Mi Park, Ruth T. Casey
• A familial clustering of autoimmune and monogenic diabetes. Anand Velusamy, Paul Grant, Kate Morel, Nick Vaughan. (2015)

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 Professional membership

• General Medical Council
• Royal College of Physicians UK
• British Society for Endocrinology (BES)
• The European Society of Endocrinology (ESE)
• Endocrine society (American)
• British Thyroid Association (BTA)
• The UK and Ireland Neuroendocrine Tumour Society (UKI NETS)

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