Harsha Kariyawasam MBBS PhD MRCP (UK) BSc (hons)

Consultant in Allergy and Medical Rhinology

Clinical Practice

Specialist areas

• Airway Allergy
• General Allergy
• Medical Rhinology

Other areas of training

• Respirator Medicine
• General Medicine

Training

Dr. Harsha Kariyawasam is the Clinical Lead for Airway Allergy at the Royal National Throat Nose Ear Hospital, London. He read medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, University of London and awarded an additional year of study in Biochemistry (Molecular Genetics) at Imperial College London.  General medical training was undertaken in London, and specialist training in Allergy, Respiratory Medicine and Rhinology was completed over a 7 year period at the Royal Brompton Hospital as Senior House Officer, Clinical Tutor and Specialist Registrar. Further training at the Hammersmith Hospital (Airway Allergy and Disease), St Mary’s Hospital (General Allergy) and St Thomas Hospital (Skin Allergy) was also undertaken.  He was awarded the highly prestigious PhD Thesis Prize in 2008 from the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London for work on how allergens injure the airway and the repair response to such injury. He undertook further post-doctoral research training in mechanisms of nasal allergy and nasal neuronal activation before taking up his Consultant post in 2008. He actively pursues clinical and basic science research and is an honorary Senior Lecturer at the MRC and Asthma UK centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma and University College London. He has published some highly original work in the field. Dr Kariyawasam is an invited speaker at national and international conferences of learned societies as well as being a frequent speaker on his areas of clinical expertise on post-graduate Allergy Courses.  He is also a reviewer in asthma and allergy to the leading high-impact respiratory and allergy journals.

Professional Membership

• British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology
• European Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology
• British Thoracic Society

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