Clinical Senior Lecturer/ Consultant Ophthalmologist
School of Immunity and Infection
Saaeha Rauz is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Academic Unit of Ophthalmology, School of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham and a Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, one of the largest dedicated eye units in Europe.
She provides a supra-regional referral clinical service specialising in (i) ocular surface diseases where the majority ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 507 6849
Email s.rauz@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Clinical Rheumatology and Honorary Consultant
School of Immunity and Infection
Karim Raza is Professor of Clinical Rheumatology at the University of Birmingham, UK. He qualified from Oxford in 1993 and achieved Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1996. From 2000-2003 he worked as an Arthritis Research UK clinical training fellow studying the regulation of leukocyte apoptosis in early inflammatory arthritis. Following the award of a PhD, he was appointed ...
Email k.raza@bham.ac.uk
Section Head, Flow Cytometry
School of Immunity and Infection
Peter Richardson has over 30 years experience in the immunophenotypic analysis of haematological malignancy and allied disorders.
He has collaborated on a number of research studies with academic staff over the years.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3824
Email p.r.richardson@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Immunology
School of Immunity and Infection
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3454
Email a.rot@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Immune Cell Biology
School of Immunity and Infection
David Sansom is a Professor of Immune Cell Biology in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.
David has published numerous papers in internationally recognised scientific journals mostly in the field of T cell immune regulation and its relevance to autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. He has received substantial grant funding from a ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 2268
Email d.m.sansom@bham.ac.uk

Senior Research Fellow/ AR UK Career Progression Fellow
School of Immunity and Infection
Dagmar Scheel-Toellner leads a research team that investigates the basic mechanism of joint inflammation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. She initially trained as a pharmacist, and the translation of her research on autoimmunity into therapeutic strategies is still an important long-term aim in her work. She closely collaborates with her clinical colleagues within the Rheumatology ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8690
Email d.scheel@bham.ac.uk
Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology
School of Immunity and Infection
Jonathan Sherlock is Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology and works on the role of inflammatory cytokines in spondyloarthropathy in the context of development of better therapeutics for these conditions.
Telephone +44 (0)121 371 3243

Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow and Honorary Consultant Hepatologist
School of Immunity and Infection
Shishir Shetty is a clinician scientist in the Centre for Liver Research and honorary consultant hepatologist at the Queen Elizabeth Liver Transplant Unit, Birmingham. He has received grant funding from the Wellcome Trust, the Core Charity and the Bardhan Research and Education Trust.
Shishir’s research focus is the regulation of leucocyte recruitment to the ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 4158700
Email s.shetty@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer, BMedSc Programme Director
School of Immunity and Infection
John Shuttleworth is programme lead for the BMedSc course.
Email j.shuttleworth@bham.ac.uk
Clinical Lecturer in Renal Medicine
School of Immunity and Infection
Lecturing in renal medicine Stuart Smith has clinical practice responsibilities at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital renal unit while also engaging in laboratory based research and teaching academic and clinical skills to medical undergraduates.
His current research activities focus on chronic kidney disease, stromal cell biology and the pathogenesis of renal fibrosis.
Telephone +44 (0)121 371 3265
Email s.w.smith.1@bham.ac.uk