WHO are we : The Lupus Team
In addition to Professor Graham Hughes, there are 7
consultant physicians, all trained in the St. Thomas' Lupus
Clinic under Professor Hughes and specialised in Lupus.
- Dr David D'Cruz
- Dr Christopher Edwards
- Dr Patrick Gordon
- Dr Munther Khamashta
- Dr Ramesh Mootoo
- Dr Giovanni Sanna
- Dr Colin Tench
Manager: Sandy Hampson
Secretaries: Alison Ward, Kim Hough, Melanie Draper, Brenda Friedner
We are also able to offer a multi-disciplinary service with consulting specialists in nephrology, neurology, chest disease, dermatology and gynaecology, all of whom have worked with Professor Hughes and his team.
Dr David D'Cruz
Dr David D'Cruz is a Consultant
Rheumatologist in the Louise
Coote Lupus Unit at St Thomas'
Hospital. His major clinical and
research interests are systemic
lupus erythematosus, the
antiphospholipid syndrome and
systemic vasculitis.
He trained at St Mary's Hospital
Medical School in London.
Senior House Officer and
Registrar rotations at University
College and the Royal London
Hospital were followed by a
clinical registrar post and then an ARC Clinical Research Fellowship at
St Thomas' Hospital leading to an MD degree.
He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology at St
Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospitals following a Senior
Registrar post there. Dr D'Cruz has published 110 peer reviewed
papers, 25 editorials and reviews and 15 book chapters. He is one of
the Managing Editors of the journal Lupus and is Editor in Chief of the
Journal of Autoimmune Diseases.
Dr Christopher Edwards
Dr Edwards is a Consultant
Physician and Senior Lecturer at
Southampton University Hospital
where he runs the Southampton
Lupus Clinic. Dr Edwards trained
under Professor Hughes at St
Thomas' Hospital, and at the
Hammersmith Hospital and the
Kennedy Institute in London. He
also spent a year treating lupus
patients at the Tan Tock Seng
Hospital in Singapore.
Dr
Edwards' particular research
interests are the effects of the
environment on lupus and new biologic therapies for the treatment of
lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Dr Patrick Gordon
Dr. Patrick Gordon is a
Consultant Physician and
Rheumatologist at King's
College Hospital, an
internationally renowned
London teaching hospital.
He
runs the lupus service there and
has a special interest in mixed
connective tissue disease and
lung disease in lupus and
myositis. He trained in London
and worked for 4 years in the
Lupus Unit at St Thomas'
Hospital where he obtained his
PhD fellowship. He has published extensively and continues to
research in the field of lupus and myositis.
Dr Munther Khamashta
Munther Khamashta was born in
Bethlehem (Palestine). He
studied medicine in Barcelona,
Spain and trained in internal
medicine in Madrid, Spain. Due
to his interest in connective
tissue diseases, he joined the
Lupus Unit in London 17 years
ago and has since worked
tirelessly for the unit both
clinically and in research.
He
runs a large lupus in pregnancy
clinic at St Thomas' and has
published over 500 clinical and
research studies in Lupus, Hughes' Syndrome and related
conditions.
Dr Ramesh Mootoo
Born in Ireland and brought up
in Trinidad (West Indies), he
returned to medical school in
Dublin, following in his father's
footsteps. After graduating in
1986, he did his post-graduate
training in London specialising
in General Medicine and
Rheumatology. He developed an
interest in Systemic Lupus while
working as a Registrar for
Professor Graham Hughes at St
Thomas' in 1993.
Dr Giovanni Sanna
Dr Sanna was appointed a
Consultant in General Internal
Medicine and Rheumatology at
the Homerton University
Hospital in 1999 and has a
Special Interest Lupus Clinic.
Having trained in the lupus unit at St Thomas', he
has a special interest in
connective tissue diseases, in
particular SLE and related
disorders.
His research and
publications are clinical
manifestations and management of neurologic disease in lupus and
antiphospholipid syndrome.
Dr Colin Tench
Dr Colin Tench is working as a
Consultant Rheumatologist and
General Physician at St Mary's
Hospital. He qualified at
Cambridge University and at
the Royal London Hospital,
University College London
Hospitals and the Hammersmith
Hospital.
Dr Tench specialises in the
treatment of lupus and runs a
weekly lupus outpatient clinic at
St Mary's Hospital. His research
interests include an investigation into the effects of aerobic exercise on
fatigue and sleep quality in Lupus.
He is also interested in postgraduate
medical education and is Royal College of Physicians Tutor and
Programme Director for Foundation Training at St Mary's Hospital.
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