* More than 25 years of experience* Consultant Renal Physician and Lead Clinician for Dialysis, London Bridge Hospital (present) * Lead Clinician for Renal Medicine, London Bridge Hospital (present)* Consultant, BMI Sloane Hospital (present)* Consultant Nephrologist and Physician, Holly Hospital (present)* Consultant Nephrologist, Barts Health NHS Trust (2008 - present) ...

* BSc (Hons), University of Leicester (1993)* MB ChB (Hons), University of Leicester (1995) * FRCP (UK)* PhD, William Harvey Research Institute, University of London (2014) ...

* Member of American Society of Nephrologists* Member of Royal College of Physicians * Member of Medical Protection Society* Member of the Renal Association ...

* Has published in numerous prestigious peer reviewed journals* Pakozdi A, Rajakariar R, Pyne D, Cove-Smith A, Yaqoob MM. Systematic Review and the External Validity of Randomized Controlled Trials in Lupus Nephritis. Kidney Int Rep. 2017;3(2):403-411. * Muthuppalaniappan VM, Rajakariar R, Blunden MJ. Leptospirosis presenting as haemolytic uraemic syndrome: a case report. BMC Nephrol. 2018;19(1):20* Pakozdi A, Pyne D, Sheaff M, Rajakariar R. Utility of a repeat renal biopsy in lupus nephritis: a single centre experience. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2018;33(3):507-513* Alston D, Rajakariar R, Sheaff M, Lever N. Concurrent granulomatous polyangiitis and squamous cell carcinoma of the lung: a case of balancing treatment. BMJ Case Rep. 2016;2016:10 Levene S, Levene CA, Makanjuola D, Rajakariar R. Recruitment of renal transplant patients into patrolling police 4 roles using orthotic shields. BMJ Case Rep. May 30, 2014* Hartley A, Rajakariar R, Sheaff M, Buckland M, Goh B, O'Connell R. Syphilis masquerading as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Int J STD AIDS. 25: 529-531, 2014* Forbes SH, Robert SC, Martin JE, Rajakariar R. Quiz page January 2012- Acute kidney injury with hematuria, a positive ANCA test and low levels of complement Am J Kidney Dis. 59 :A28-31, 201* Rajakariar R, Newson J, Jackson EK, Sawmynaden P, Smith A, Rahman F, Yaqoob MM, Gilroy DW. Nonresolving inflammation in gp91phox-/- mice, a model of human chronic granulomatous disease, has lower adenosine and cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate. J Immunol. 182:3262-9, 2009* Ravindra Rajakariar, Toby Lawrence , Jonas Bystrom, Mark Hilliard, Paul Colville-Nash, Geoff Bellingan, Desmond Fitzgerald, Muhammad M Yaqoob and Derek W Gilroy. Novel biphasic role for lymphocytes revealed during resolving inflammation. Blood 111:4184-92, 2008* Ravindra Rajakariar, Mark Hilliard, Toby Lawrence, Paul Colville-Nash, Geoff Bellingan, Desmond Fitzgerald, Muhammad M Yaqoob and Derek W Gilroy. Haematopoietic prostaglandin D2 synthase controls the onset, resolution and post-resolution susceptibility to injury and infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104: 20979-84, 2007. [ Editorial by Oliver Howarth and Christopher Buckley, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104: 20647-20648, 2007.]* Soloman AW. Rajakariar R, Sheaff M and Fan SL. Lymphoma masquerading as a peritoneal dialysis catheter leak. Kidney International. 72 : 904, 2007* Morris T, Rajakariar R, Stables M and Gilroy DW. Not all eicosanoids are bad. Trends Pharmacol Sci. 27: 609-611, 2006* Rajakariar R, Yaqoob MM and Gilroy DW. COX-2 in Inflammation and Resolution. Mol Interv. 6:199-207, 2006.* Rajakariar R, Sharples EJ, Raftery MJ, Sheaff M, Yaqoob MM. Sarcoid tubulo-interstitial nephritis: Long-term outcome and response to corticosteroid therapy. Kidney Int. 70:165-9, 2006. [Cited in research highlights section of Nature Clinical Practice- Nephrology]* Trivedi SG, Newson J, Rajakariar R, Jacques TS, Hannon R, Kanaoka Y, Eguchi N, Colville-Nash P, Gilroy DW. Essential role for hematopoietic prostaglandin D2 synthase in the control of delayed type hypersensitivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103: 5179-84, 2006.* Rajakariar R, Naina Jivanji, Mira Varagunam, Mohammad Rafiq, Arun Gupta, Michael Sheaff, Paul Sinnott and MM Yaqoob. High pre-transplant soluble CD30 levels are predictive of the grade of rejection. Am J Transplant 5:1922-5. 2005.* Rajakariar R, Bhattacharyya M, Norton A, Sheaff M, Cavenagh J, Raftery MJ, Yaqoob MM. Post transplant T-cell lymphoma: a case series of four patients from a single unit and review of the literature. Am J Transplant 4: 1534-8, 2004.* R Rajakariar and Magdi Yaqoob Strategies for the prevention and treatment of diabetic nephropathy [Review] Cardiabetes July 2002* Rajakariar R and Rosemary A. Walker, Pathological and biological features of mammographically detected invasive breast carcinomas. British Journal of Cancer 71: 150-154, 1995.* Rosemary A Walker , Rajakariar R and K.A. Dookeran, Comparison of pS2 and Cathepsin D in primary breast carcinomas. The Breast 4: 137-142, 1995 ...

* Member of the North London Clinical Advisory Group* Member of the Renal Clinical Reference Group (NHSE)

* Academic Year Tutor, Queen Mary University of London School of Medicine* Educational supervisor for junior doctors, Queen Mary University of London School of Medicine * Postgraduate training at Barts Health, London ...