Pankaj Sharma

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Who is Pankaj Sharma?

Pankaj Sharma is a Reader/Associate Professor in Clinical Neurology at Imperial College London. He is Director of the Imperial College Cerebrovascular Research Unit. His main interest is in identifying genes for stroke.

Sharma was born in India, the son of Kewal Krishan Sharma and Janak Sharma. He was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship in 1998 at Harvard Medical School and a British Heart Foundation Clinician Scientist award in 1997. Sharma studied medicine at London University and obtained his PhD from Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge and a Doctorate in Medicine from London University in 2003. 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. Sharma was President of the British Fulbright Scholars Association, is currently Medical Director of the national UK charity Different Strokes, co-Founder and Treasurer of the South Asian Health Foundation, Fellow of the Medical Society of London, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Cardiovascular Disease and President of the London Cardiovascular Society. http://www.londoncardiovascularsociety.com He is a commentator for news media from BBC to CNN International on medical issues particularly relating to stroke. In 2010 he was one of the recipients of the Hind Rattan award.

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