Current NHS consultant posts held
Consultant Hepatologist at University hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust from 01/07/2016 to current date. Working at all the 3 sites Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General, Glenfield Hospital.
Community session at Hinckley Hospital.
Visiting Consultant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Liver Transplant Unit, Birmingham.
Research interests
Acute Liver failure,
Acute on chronic liver failure.
Fatty liver disease
Autoimmune and cholestatic liver disease
Personal interests
I am a running enthusiast and Love long distance runnning including Marathons. Other activities include badmintion. I am a black belt in Taw-kwon Do. Above all love to have a long distance family runs with my little kids and wife.
Awards received
• Prestigious Dame Sheila Sherlock hepatology fellowship award by Royal College of Physicians, London June 2010
• Best Outgoing Postgraduate Trainee at Hindustan Aeronautics Hospital.
• Won 1st Prize in Prestigious Annual Medical Competition organised by Hindustan Aeronautics Hospital.
• Won 3rd Prize in Psychiatry Competition organized by Indian Psychiatric Society.
(Additional) Languages spoken
- Hindi
- Native or bilingual
- Kannada
- Native or bilingual
- Telugu
- Native or bilingual
- Panjabi, Punjabi
- Fluent
- Urdu
- Fluent
- Tamil
- Conversational
- Malayalam
- Basic
Publications
PUBLICATIONS/ABSTRACTS
• Long-term outcomes following percutaneous hepatic vein recanalization for Budd-Chiari syndrome Liver Int. 2017; 37: 111–120. DOI: 10.1111/liv.13180
• Evaluation of Coagulation abnormalities in acute liver failure Oct 2012, Journal of Hepatology, PMID:22735303
• Long term outcomes of percutaneous recanalisation for Budd-Chairi Syndrome (BCS): Our experience in Birmingham, U.K. Poster presentation in EASL April 2014, BSG (June 14).
• Percutaneous Recanalisation for BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME (BCS) - Single Centre Experience. (Oral presentation at MGS Annual Conference, Nottingham May 14’)
• Palliative Biliary Stenting, Abstract, DDF June 2012.
• Evaluation of Haemostasis in Acute liver failure, EASL April 2012.
• Prospective study assessing the relationship between standard laboratory coagulation and global tests of clot-formation using Thromboelastography in patients with Fulminant Hepatic Failure abstract accepted at AASLD Oct 2010.
• Admission serum lactate is a strong predictor of outcome in cirrhotics admitted to intensive care unit, and when added to the liver disease or UK model for end-stage liver disease, improves their respective predictive value. doi:10.1136/gut.2010.223362.30 and Oral presentation, National congress, Roma 10'
• Predictors of outcome in cirrhotics admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU); survivors exhibited significant rise of serum sodium levels and a fall in lactate levels at 48 hrs. V Ref Digestive and Liver Disease Vol 42 Supplement 1 Feb 2010 T.N.13
• Acute Liver failure- Current European perspective accepted as an oral presentation in EASL 2010 Ref http://www.kenes.com/easl2010/orals/136.htm.
• Bacterial Infections in Cirrhosis are associated with a poor prognosis that is not reflected by MELD and UKELD scores. Journal of Hepatology April 2010.
• Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease (Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis) -Ref KJMS/jmaj02/5.
• Pharmacological management of Hypertension in DM - Ref KJMS/oct-dec99/1
