Pankaj Sharma

Pankaj Sharma is a British professor of Clinical Neurology 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), and formerly head of the Imperial College Cerebrovascular Research Unit (ICCRU) at Imperial College London. 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'', co-founder and treasurer of the South Asian Health Foundation (1998). He is a Fellow of the Medical Society of London, editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Cardiovascular Disease'', president of the ''London Cardiovascular Society'' (2009), and an expert external advisor to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. Provided by Wikipedia