Meet the team
The adult allergy and immunology team is made up of:
Five consultants - senior doctors who have completed all of their training in a specialist field of medicine.
Two specialist registrars - doctors who are receiving advanced training in a specialist field of medicine in order eventually to become a consultant.
Specialist nurses – nurses specially-trained in allergy, immunology and respiratory, who support allergy testing, provide advice and training on treatment management and run immunology day wards.
Dr Hasan Arshad|
Dr Arshad is a reader in allergy at the University of Southampton School of Medicine, and holds an honorary contract as consultant physician with Southampton University Hospitals Trust.
He provides and co-ordinates NHS allergy services at Southampton, Bournemouth and the Isle of Wight.
He is a trained respiratory physician with a specific clinical and research interest in asthma and allergy.
He trained in allergy at the University of Southampton and the John Hopkins University, in Baltimore, USA.
He has written more than 80 research articles in high profile, peer-reviewed journals and authored several books and book chapters. The primary focus of this research is the prevalence, natural history, risk factors for the development of asthma and allergy and how genes interact with environment to the risk.
He has also worked extensively on primary and secondary prevention of asthma and allergy.
Dr Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy
|Dr Ramesh graduated from the University of Southampton in 1994. Post membership he obtained a research fellowship at The David Hide Asthma Research Centre, on the Isle of Wight, where he undertook the follow-up of one of the local birth cohorts to study the natural history of, and risk factors for, childhood asthma and allergic disease.
This formed the basis of his MD thesis and provided numerous peer-reviewed publications. Following completion of that study, he completed his specialist registrar training in respiratory medicine on the Yorkshire training programme.
Dr Ramesh is a full-time NHS consultant in respiratory and general medicine at Southampton General Hospital. His specialist interests are 'difficult asthma', allergy and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He runs a tertiary referral difficult asthma clinic alongside Dr Peter Howarth as well as tertiary referral allergy clinics alongside Dr Hasan Arshad in Southampton and the Isle of Wight.
He is also the joint clinical lead for the respiratory centre at Southampton General Hospital, which has a central role in local COPD management, and was the lead author of new local COPD guidelines.
Dr Ramesh is also actively involved in the ongoing Isle of Wight research studies into asthma and allergy epidermiology plus mechanisms of disease.
Dr Anthony Williams
|Dr Williams is a consultant clinical immunologist/allergist in Southampton General Hospital and a senior lecturer at the University of Southampton School of Medicine.
He qualified from University College London Medical School in 1992 and undertook his clinical immunology and allergy training in Cardiff, Oxford and Southampton. He completed his Wellcome Trust PhD Fellowship in Molecular Immunology at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in 2002.
Dr Williams moved to Southampton in 2002 to complete his clinical immunology and allergy training within a four-year Wellcome Trust Clinical Scientist Award. He was appointed as a consultant clinical immunologist in 2003 and a senior lecturer in clinical immunology and allergy in 2006.
Dr Williams has expertise in the investigation and management of adults with a range of allergic disorders including anaphylaxis, latex allergy, venoms, urticaria and angioedema, immunotherapy and drug allergy. He also investigates and manages adults and children (jointly with paediatricians) with recurrent infections and unusual immune disorders.
Dr Williams is head of the immunology department which undertakes the laboratory investigations for allergic and immunologically-mediated diseases within the trust.
His clinical and research interests are in recurrent infections, allergen immunotherapy, anaphylaxis and developments in laboratory diagnostics for immunologically-mediated diseases.
He is actively involved in the University of Southampton MSc Allergy programme. He is a member of the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) and the UK Primary Immunodeficiency Network (UKPIN).
Dr Peter Howarth
Dr Efrem Eren |