Dr Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy BM (Soton), DM (Soton), FRCP (London)
Principal Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and Allergy
Dr Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy (more commonly known as “Dr Ramesh”) is Principal Research Fellow in Asthma & Allergy at the University of Southampton (UoS), Deputy Director of the David Hide Asthma & Allergy Research Centre (DHAARC), Isle of Wight and a Consultant clinically specialising in Severe Asthma and Allergy.
Ramesh graduated in Medicine from the University of Southampton before specialising in Respiratory and General Medicine with particular clinical and research interests in asthma and allergy. He completed his DM on the natural history of, and risk factors, for development of asthma and allergy in childhood through work on the Isle of Wight Birth Cohort (IOWBC).
Ramesh was appointed as fulltime NHS Consultant at University Hospital Southampton (UHS) in 2006 and in parallel as Honorary Senior Lecturer at UoS. Subsequently he led and significantly developed tertiary Severe Asthma and Allergy clinical services at UHS and wider collaborations such as the Wessex Asthma Network. In October 2018, Ramesh took up his present position as Principal Research Fellow in Asthma and Allergy at UoS. His research is based both at the Faculty of Medicine and at DHAARC and includes collaborations with colleagues at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego plus the University of Memphis in the USA.
Ramesh is a clinical epidemiologist undertaking research in the natural history, phenotyping, endotyping, treatment and prevention of asthma and allergy. He remains a Senior Co-Investigator in the IOWBC and multiple other DHAARC birth cohorts. He is also Chief Investigator for the Wessex AsThma CoHORT of difficult asthma which he created within the tertiary severe asthma clinic at UHS to align clinical and research goals for patients with severe asthma. This study has attracted around £1million of research income.
Ramesh is a co-investigator on 3 NIH grants related to epigenetics of severe asthma, T-cell epitopes in fungal asthma and epigenetics of childhood asthma. He has published over 75 Medline cited papers - h-index google scholar; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GX_wkD0AAAAJ&hl=en.
In addition to his research and clinical work, Ramesh is passionate about teaching. He co-leads the Allergic Airways Disease Module within the UoS Allergy MSC and leads the undergraduate 3rd year and 5th year Allergy SSU for medical students at Southampton.
Qualifications:
- BM, University of Southampton 1994
- MRCP, Royal College of Physicians (London) 1997
- DM, University of Southampton 2003
- FRCP, Royal College of Physicians (London) 2012
Appointments Held:
- 1994-1995: House Officer in Medicine & General Surgery, Southampton General Hospital.
- 1995-1998: Senior House Officer in General Medicine, North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke.
- 1998-2001: Clinical Research Fellow in Asthma and Allergy at The David Hide Asthma & Allergy Research Centre and University of Southampton, UK.
- 2001-2006: Specialist Registrar in Respiratory and General Medicine, Yorkshire Deanery.
- 2006-2018: Consultant in Respiratory & General Medicine plus Allergy at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton and Honorary Senior Lecturer/ Principal Research Fellow.
- 2018-Present: Principal Research Fellow in Asthma and Allergy & Hon Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and Allergy