Dr Rama Vancheeswaran, Consultant Chest and General Physician
Dr Rama Vancheeswaran
Consultant Chest and General Physician
Dr Rama Vancheeswaran LRCS MSc PhD
Consultant Chest and General Physician
Dr Rama Vancheeswaran
Consultant Chest and General Physician LRCS MSc PhD
Dr Vancheeswaran is a recommended Consultant Chest and General Physician
Areas of expertise
- Chest X-ray
- Lung function / spirometry
- CT scan (computerised tomography scan)
- Allergy blood tests
- BiPAP machine
Recommendations for Dr Vancheeswaran
These recommendations are for information purposes only. Doctors providing recommendations do so in good faith and are not responsible for clinical outcomes.
Recommended by:
byDr Dinesh Silva, GP
❝Very thorough and good correspondence back to GP❞
byDr Selvamalar Nithiyananthan, GP
❝Good patient care, caring and very approachable❞
byDr Jenny Noimark, GP
❝Great clinician, knowledgeable and pragmatic❞
byDr Amanda Mary Grattan, GP
❝Great experience and always helpful❞
byA GP
❝Recommended respiratory specialist❞
byDr Farzana Abbas Vanat, GP
❝Recommended respiratory specialist❞
byDr Nikesh Dattani, GP
❝Recommended respiratory specialist❞
byDr Thivyan Thiruudaian, GP
❝Recommended respiratory specialist❞
byDr Adwoa Agyewaa Dufu, GP
❝Recommended respiratory specialist❞
byDr Varuna Ayaru, GP
❝Straight talking❞
byDr Akeel Alisa, Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist
❝Dr Rama Vancheeswaran is very thorough and has an exceptionally good rapport with her patients. She is very knowledgeable.❞
byMrs Nitu Bajekal, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
❝Caring and compassionate with excellent clinical skils❞
byDr Akeel Alisa, Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist
❝Dr Rama Vancheeswaran is very thorough and has an exceptionally good rapport with her patients. She is very knowledgeable.❞
byMrs Nitu Bajekal, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
❝Caring and compassionate with excellent clinical skils❞
Make an appointment
Address
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HCA Healthcare Golders Green Outpatients and Diagnostics Centre
Roman House, Roman House, 296 Golders Green Rd, London, NW11 9PY
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The Wellington Hospital Elstree Waterfront
The Waterfront Beaufort House Elstree Road, Elstree, WD6 3BS
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The Harley Street Clinic
35 Weymouth Street, London, W1G 8BJ
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Devonshire Diagnostic Centre
16 Devonshire St, Marylebone, London, W1G 7AF
About Dr Rama Vancheeswaran
GMC number: 4290292
Year qualified: 1996
Place of primary qualification: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Initial consultation fee: £250.0
Follow up consultation fee: £150.0
Dr Rama Vancheeswaran is a Consultant Chest and General Physician at the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust. She also serves as an Honorary Consultant at the Brompton Hospital, specialising in the Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) unit. Dr Vancheeswaran leads the ILD services for the Royal Free group of hospitals and is the ILD lead for the Royal Free group of hospitals.
As the Lead for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) at the Barnet site, Dr Vancheeswaran runs the Integrated service. Her interests include local provision of COPD and general respiratory services. She is a British Lung Foundation Ambassador, representing the patient's view, and a member of the British Thoracic Society's COPD Specialist Advisory Group. Additionally, she holds the positions of Smoking and Interstitial Lung Disease Lead for both the British Thoracic Society and the Trust.
Dr Vancheeswaran's previous roles at Barnet include Clinical Director and Associate Medical Director for both Barnet and Chase Farm Trust and Barnet Community Services. She is passionate about patient empowerment, streamlined care, and upholding the founding ideals of the NHS. Her academic credentials include a PhD in Interstitial Lung and Connective Tissue Diseases and an MSc in Immunology. She has an extensive portfolio of research publications focusing on the immunopathology of scleroderma, non-specific interstitial pneumonitis, and COPD, and she continues to lecture on these subjects.
Areas of expertise
- Allergy blood tests
- Asthma
- BiPAP machine
- Breathlessness
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchitis
- Chest infection
- Chest X-ray
- Chronic cough
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- CT scan (computerised tomography scan)
- Emphysema
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
- Infectious diseases
- Interstitial lung disease
- Long covid
- Lung cancer
- Lung disease
- Lung function / spirometry
- Neuropathic cough
- Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)
- Pleural disorders
- Pleural effusion
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Primary lung tumours
- Pulmonary embolism (lung blood clot)
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Refractory cough
- Sarcoidosis
- Sibilant rhonchi (wheeze)
- Sleep disorders
- Snoring problems
- Troublesome cough
- Tuberculosis
- Wheezing
Professional memberships
Articles by Dr Rama Vancheeswaran
P218 Prevalence of bronchiectasis in COPD patients in a general respiratory clinic
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: investigation and management-A review
Circulating type I collagen degradation products
Increased levels of endothelin-1 and differential endothelin type A and B receptor expression in scleroderma-associated fibrotic lung disease
Childhood-onset scleroderma
Scleroderma-derived human fibroblasts retain abnormal phenotypic and functional characteristics following retroviral transduction with the SV40 tsT antigen
Expression of ectopeptidases in scleroderma
HLA type as a predictor of mixed connective tissue disease differentiation. Ten-year clinical and immunogenetic followup of 46 patients
A comparative study of the mechanism leading to dermal and lung disease in systemic sclerosis
