Doctor Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy

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 a formal academic appointment as Principal Research Fellow in Asthma and Allergy at UoS. In March 2022 this changed to an Associate Professor appointment. 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 4 NIH grants related to epigenetics of severe asthma, T-cell epitopes in fungal asthma and epigenetics of childhood asthma. He is Chief Investigator of the Wessex AsThma CoHort of difficult asthma (WATCH) study at Southampton and Principal Investigator for an Asthma UK funded study to identify miRNAs as a diagnostic tool in asthma. He has published over 90 Medline cited papers - h-index google scholar (currently 36); 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 3^rd year and 5^th 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