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'''Pankaj Sharma''' is a British [[professor]] of Clinical [[Neurology]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/pankaj.sharma/ | title=Faculty of Medicine|website=1.imperial.ac.uk}}</ref> at [[Royal Holloway College]], [[University of London]], and consultant neurologist at [[Imperial College London]]. He is director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Research at Royal Holloway (ICR2UL),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/research/icr/home.aspx |title=Royal Holloway | the Institute of Cardiovascular Research | Biological Sciences home |access-date=2015-05-23 |archive-date=2016-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807173137/https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/research/icr/home.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> and formerly head of the Imperial College Cerebrovascular Research Unit (ICCRU) at Imperial College London.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/neuro/npmdepts/clinneuroscience/stroke_brain_injury/pankaj_sharma/ |title=Imperial College Cerebrovascular Research Unit (ICCRU) |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100624045437/http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/neuro/npmdepts/clinneuroscience/stroke_brain_injury/pankaj_sharma/ |archive-date=24 June 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 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'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://differentstrokes.co.uk/|title=Home|website=Differentstrokes.co.uk|access-date=4 June 2022}}</ref> co-founder and treasurer of the South Asian Health Foundation (1998).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sahf.org.uk/Members.aspx?id=19 |title=SAHF Website : Members |access-date=2009-10-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009115700/http://www.sahf.org.uk/Members.aspx?id=19 |archive-date=2011-10-09 }}</ref> He is a Fellow of the [[Medical Society of London]], editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Cardiovascular Disease'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cvd.sagepub.com/ |title=JRSM Cardiovascular Disease |access-date=2015-05-23 |archive-date=2015-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527165636/http://cvd.sagepub.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> president of the ''London Cardiovascular Society'' (2009),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.londoncardiovascularsociety.com/ |title=London Cardiovascular Society | Home |access-date=2022-06-28 |archive-date=2019-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914070656/http://londoncardiovascularsociety.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
and an expert external advisor to the [[Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman]].

== Education ==
Sharma studied medicine at [[London University]] from 1983 to 1988 and holds two doctorates, a PhD from [[Gonville and Caius College]], [[University of Cambridge]] in 1998 and a [[Doctorate in Medicine]] from [[London University]] in 2003. In 1998 he was the recipient of a [[Fulbright Scholarship]] at [[Harvard Medical School]] and [[Massachusetts General Hospital]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |url=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/research/icr/staff/staff.aspx |title=Royal Holloway | Staff | Biological Sciences home |access-date=2015-09-06 |archive-date=2017-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203043636/https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/research/icr/staff/staff.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref name="auto"/>

===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 some 100 original papers and is the co-editor of two books: ''Stroke Genetics'' (Springer 2017; 2nd edition) and ''Clinical Pharmacology'' (Elsevier 2018) which is now in its twelfth edition.

Sharma has been a commentator for news media including the [[BBC]] and [[CNN International]] on medical issues especially relating to stroke. He has been interviewed on the subject of brain disease in prominent individuals including [[Ariel Sharon]], [[Michael Schumacher]] and [[Jules Bianchi]].

=== Awards ===
Sharma received a [[British Heart Foundation]] Clinician Scientist award in 1997, and in 2010 he was one of the recipients of the Hind Rattan award.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}

In 2015, he was named the UK's top Asian doctor at the annual British Indian Awards.<ref>[https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/aboutus/newsandevents/news/newsarticles/professorpankajsharmanamedukstopbritishasiandoctor.aspx] {{dead link|date=June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.acnr.co.uk/2015/04/uks-top-asian-medical-doctor-named-at-the-british-indian-awards-2015/ |title=UK's top Asian medical doctor named at the British Indian Awards 2015 | ACNR | Online Neurology Journal |access-date=2015-05-23 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025804/http://www.acnr.co.uk/2015/04/uks-top-asian-medical-doctor-named-at-the-british-indian-awards-2015/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Personal life ==
He was born in Delhi, the son of Kewal Krishan Sharma (Indian Foreign diplomatic service who served under three prime ministers, [[Jawaharlal Nehru|Nehru]], [[Lal Bahadur Shastri|Shastri]] and [[Indira Gandhi]]) and Janak Sharma ([[Bank of England]]). Under his grandfather, Bihari Lal Sharma, the family was noted for holding the licence for [[Kodak]] prior to India's [[Partition of India|partition]]. He is chairman of the UK charity founded by his family, [http://lotuspartnersfoundation.org/ Lotus Partners Foundation]. He lists his hobbies as debating, fencing<ref>{{Cite book|title=Marquis Who's Who in the World}}</ref> and playing polo and describes himself as 'generous, disciplined and maverick'.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015|title=BMJ Observations|journal=BMJ|volume=351|pages=h3960|doi=10.1136/bmj.h3960 |pmid=26223972|last1=Sharma|first1=P.|s2cid=34611381}}</ref> Sharma lives in London with his doctor wife and two children, Aarti and Shyam.

== Private practice ==
Sharma has a neurology private practice<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.londonmedicalpractice.com/pankajsharma.html|title=London Medical Practice | Professor Pankaj Sharma MD PhD FRCP|website=Londonmedicalpractice.com|access-date=4 June 2022}}</ref> in [[Harley Street]].

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