Pankaj Sharma
British professor and neurologist
Pankaj Sharma is a British professor of Clinical Neurology at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and consultant neurologist at Imperial College London. He is director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Research at Royal Holloway (ICR2UL), and formerly head of the Imperial College Cerebrovascular Research Unit (ICCRU) at Imperial College London. His main interest is in identifying genes for stroke, particularly in those of South Asian heritage.
He was president of the British Fulbright Scholars Association and is currently Medical Advisor of the UK national younger stroke survivor charity Different Strokes, co-founder and former treasurer of the South Asian Health Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Medical Society of London, former (founding) editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Cardiovascular Disease, president of the London Cardiovascular Society,
and an expert external advisor to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
Education
Sharma studied medicine at London University and holds two doctorates, a PhD from Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge and a Doctorate in Medicine from London University. He was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He holds a diploma in the history of medicine from the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2007 and is a Royal College examiner.
Research
He is a researcher in the field of stroke and is particularly interested in its genetical basis.
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