London MRCP 1 Lecturing Team
John Anderson is a Consultant Physician working in London at the Homerton and at Barts and the London NHS Trusts. He specialises in Diabetes/Endocrinology and acute general medicine. He enjoys human banter, and teaching. PasTest has provided an outlet for this part of him since the early 1980’s.
Ravi Gupta studied undergraduate medicine at Cambridge and clinical medicine at Oxford, and during this time also completed a Master’s in International Public Health at Harvard. He is an SpR in infectious diseases with a special interest in HIV medicine and is currently a Wellcome Trust research fellow. He has worked on a number of research projects here and internationally and is specifically interested in antiviral resistance following roll out of antiretroviral therapy in Africa, the subject of his thesis.
Alistair Lindsay (MBChB, MRCP) is a DPhil student in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK, and an Honorary Specialist Registrar in Cardiology at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. He gained degrees in both molecular biology and medicine from the University of Edinburgh, UK, before undertaking postgraduate medical training in London, UK.
Toby Maher is a Consultant Respiratory Physician with a specialist interest in interstitial lung disease. He works at the Royal Brompton Hospital. His research interests include biomarker discovery, prostaglandins and apoptosis. He is also involved in running clinical trials in fibrosing lung disease. He has been teaching on the PasTest part 1 and 2 courses since 2008.
Dr Charlotte Manisty is a Wellcome Trust research fellow and North West Thames cardiology trainee at the International Centre for Circulatory Health, St Mary’s Hospital. Research interests include cardiorespiratory physiology in heart failure and non-invasive imaging.
Jonathan Rohrer is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London. He is currently researching speech production problems in dementia whilst continuing to do clinical work at both the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and St. Mary’s Hospital.
Noemi Roy trained in Edinburgh, graduating in 2000 when she began a medical SHO rotation in West London. Her Haematology SpR rotation was based at UCH beginning in 2004 and she is currently doing a PhD in Oxford working on methylation abnormalities in haematological malignancies. Dr Roy's particular interests lie in myelodysplastic syndromes, specifically a rare subgroup associated with acquired thalassaemia.
Rakesh Shah is a Senior Registrar in Gastroenterology/General Medicine. He qualified from UCL in 1997 and obtained his training number in 2000 on the South West Thames rotation. Having recently completed a 2 year research period, Rakesh is completing clinical training at St George’s Hospital, London. Dr Shah has a wide background of teaching experience. In addition to current teaching for the MRCP Part 1 and PACES, he has been Associate Tutor for the Royal College of Physicians (2001-2) and spent 2 years as a part time Teaching Fellow for medical students and SHOs for Imperial College (2004-06).
Sunil Shah graduated from St George’ University of London and was a NHS consultant in public health medicine from 2000 to 2006. He is now a part-time clinical senior lecturer at St George’s University of London as part of a portfolio career. He has experience teaching epidemiology, statistics, evidence based medicine and public health at undergraduate and post-graduate level.