0000-0003-3641-7441 About
Pankaj Sharma is a British professor of Clinical Neurology at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and consultant neurologist at Imperial College NHS Trust London. He is director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Research at Royal Holloway, and formerly head of the Imperial College Cerebrovascular Research Unit 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 young stroke victim 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. He has established a large international biobank of stroke from the UK, India and the Middle East with the aim of trying to better understand the causes of stroke in ethnic minorities, especially those of South Asian descent. He is the author of over 100 original papers. He is the co-editor of two books: Stroke Genetics (Springer 2024; 3rd edition), and Clinical Pharmacology (Elsevier 2018) now in its twelfth edition.
Awards
Sharma received a British Heart Foundation Clinician Scientist award in 1997, and in 2010 was one of the recipients of the Hind Rattan award, India. In 2015, he was named the UK's top Asian doctor at the annual British Indian Awards.
Employment
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Education
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Projects & Funding
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