Anushka Irani
Also known as: Anushka Irani, Anushka Irani nee Soni
Mayo Clinic in Florida, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Royal College of Physicians
About
Anushka Irani, BMBCh, DPhil, is a rheumatologist with clinical and research expertise in early rheumatoid arthritis and chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Dr. Irani completed her medical degree at Magdalen College, Oxford, UK in 2003 having obtained a BA Hons in Cambridge, UK, in Natural Sciences in 2000. She completed her internal medicine training in Oxford and undertook her rheumatology specialist training in London and Oxford. She also completed a PhD at the University of Oxford, funded by the NIHR, and was then awarded the Oxford-UCB Prize postdoctoral fellowship in 2017. She practiced as a consultant rheumatologist in Oxford since 2017 where she established the fibromyalgia specialist clinic in Oxford in 2020. She moved to Mayo Clinic Florida in 2023, where she is establishing an integrated clinical research platform for people living with fibromyalgia.
Dr. Irani's clinical practice focuses on the treatment of patients with fibromyalgia. Her research interests include neuroimaging in chronic pain, personalized medicine and use of devices to measure physiological outcomes.
Employment
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Mayo Clinic in Florida SAC/Associate Professor2023 - Present
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University of Oxford Consultant/Senior Research Fellow2017 - 2023
Education
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University of Oxford BM BCh2000 - 2003
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University of Cambridge MA Honous Natural Sciences1997 - 2000
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Royal College of Physicians MRCP
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Royal College of Physicians Certificate of Completion (CCT) of Specialist Training in Rheumatology
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (69)
- Neuropathic-like pain characteristics predict worse pain outcomes in early rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort study with embedded neuroimaging evaluation Save
- Association of nociplastic pain with executive function decline in a longitudinal cohort of middle-age adults. Response to on Br J Anaesth 2026; 136: 1663–4 Save
- Addressing the unmet challenge of pain in rare bone diseases: new insights from the RUDY UK registry Save
- Exploring the effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists in fibromyalgia: a propensity-matched real-world cohort using the TriNetX research platform Save
- Why sleep matters in chronic pain: evidence across the lifespan Save
- Uncertainty as an operative construct and treatment target in functional neurological disorder. Save
- Serum neurofilament light chain in fibromyalgia: comparative evidence of neuronal injury across chronic pain conditions. Save
- Brain signatures of nociplastic pain: Fibromyalgia Index and descending modulation at population level Save
- Towards a tool to discriminate between pain mechanistic descriptors: expert ranking of clinical features and allocation of weights using a forced choice paradigm. Save
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