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• Dr Moorthy

Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Rheumatologist,
Leicester Royal Infirmary ,Leicester General Hospital,
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust.

Consultant Rheumatologist, Loughborough Community Hospital, Loughborough.

Foundation Training Programme Director,
Health Education East Midlands

Honorary Senior Lecturer
Leicester Medical school,
University of Leicester

Academic Champion - Rheumatology University of Leicester.

Research interests

1. Ethnic variations in Rheumatic diseases
2. Pregnancy and Rheumatic diseases
3. Primary care manangement of Rheumatic diseases.
4. Research using Social Media .
5. Preganancy outcome in Ankylosing spondylitis
6. Drug adherence and Drug selection among patients with Chronic diseases.

Personal interests

Cricket
Classical Music

Awards received

1. British society for Rheumatologist- Travel Bursay
2. EULAR -European Travel Bursary

Languages spoken

English
Tamil
Malayalam
Hindi

Publications

1.Moorthy A, Wade AG, Crawford GM, A Twelve-Month Follow-Up Study of Patients Recruited through Social Media Who Fulfilled ASAS/Calin Criteria for Inflammatory Back Pain. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2016 Jun 1;75(Suppl 2):583

2.BaramiT, J Neale, JBurns, AMoorthy Giant cell arteritis-an uncommon large vessel vasculitis . International Journal of Rheumatic diseases2016: 19(sup2):3-20

3.Moorthy A, Crawford GM, Wade AG, Goyal A. OP0145 An Evaluation of Inflammatory Back Pain in The Community–A Novel Way of Using Social Media (Facebook). Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2016 Jun 1;75(Suppl 2):111-.

4.Moorthy A, Gade A, Crawford G. 226. A Cross-Sectional Survey on Inflammatory Back Pain: A Common Finding in Patients with Chronic Back Pain? Rheumatology. 2015 Apr 1;54(suppl 1):i137
5.Sivera F, Ramiro S, Cikes N, Dougados M, Gossec L, Kvien TK, Lundberg IMandl P, Moorthy A, Panchal S, da Silva JAP, Bijlsma JWJ. The Country Where You Perform Your Rheumatology Training Is Associated with the Acquired Confidence, the Education Received and the Assessment in Core Competences
Annals of Rheum Dis2015; 67 (suppl 10)

6.Das, AMoorthy, Rheumatology Management of inflammatory back pain – how good are our general internal medicine trainees Ann Rheum Dis2015; 74(Suppl2): 414

7.P. Das1, A. Moorthy2, W. Maksymowych3, J. Pope4. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 4Chair of Canadian Council for Academic Rheumatologists, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, A Comparative study of Rheumatology Training across UK and Canada Annals of Rheum Diseases-2014

8.P.Das1, A. Moorthy1, P. Chapman2, E. Suresh3, R. Sakthiswary4
Comparative Survey of Rheumatology Training Including UK, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand
Ann Rheum Dis 2013; 72 (Suppl3):1037

9.K.Sunmboye1, A. Moorthy2 1 Managing Rheumatology Patients – Knowledge and Confidence among General Medicine Trainees: A Regional Survey across the East Midlands (South) Deanery, United Kingdom.
Ann Rheum Dis 2013;72(Suppl3):1036

10.S.Panchal1, S. Ramiro2, A. Moorthy1, F. Sivera3 A comparative study of rheumatology training across three European Countries Annals of Rheumatic diseases 2012; 71(Suppl3): 309

11.B Goundry, A Moorthy, Clinical Review - Raynaud’s Phenomena -Diagnosis and management. British Medical Journal Feb 2012

Courses offered to GPs

GP Evening Meeting
GP Lunch and Learn meeting
RCGP Meeting -Delivered talk on Inflammatory Back pain
GP Podcast - Inflammatory back pain evaluation