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Consultant Profile

Professor Kuntal Chakravarty

Name:
Professor Kuntal Chakravarty FRCP (London), FRCP (Glasgow), FRCP (Ireland), FACP (USA)
Practising at:
Spire Hartswood Hospital
Specialties:
  • Rheumatology
    • Soft tissue rheumatism
    • Osteoporosis
    • Inflammatory rheumatic disorders
    • Connective Tissue Disease
    • Back pain
Special clinical interests:
Vasculitis, Wegener's granulomatosis, Giant cell arteritis, polyarteritis, rheumatoid arthritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, Raynaud's phenomenon and scleroderma, ankylosing spondylitis, Paget's disease, osteoporosis, rheumatoid and inflammatory disorders including lupus, connective tissue diseases, auto-immune diseases, metabolic bone disorders, soft tissue rheumatism
Research interests:
Paget's disease, sclerodemna, SLE, rheumatoid arthritis, empowering patients to manage their disease, osteoporosis, vasculitis
Current NHS and /or university posts:
Consultant Rheumatologist, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Year of first medical qualification:
1981
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:

Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, London, Glasgow and Ireland
Member of British Medical Association
Member of American College of Rheumatology
Member of American Society of Advancement of Science
International Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology
Member of the EUVAS
Member of the BMA CCSC, Life member of the BAPIO
Founder member of the Essex Rheumatology Association and Vasculitis Research Association
Fellow and Council member of the Royal Society of Medicine Rheumatology and Rehab section
Medical Advisor to the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
Chair of the M-S group of the South Asian Health Foundation
Associate Complaint Advisor to the Quality and Care Commission

 
Contact Details 
Telephone number to make a private appointment:
01277 266 766
Availability:
Professor Chakravarty consults at Spire Hartswood Hospital on Friday and Saturday mornings
 
Background Information 
Professional profile:

Professor Kuntal Chakravarty is a consultant rheumatologist at Spire Hartswood Hospital offering private rheumatology care for adults and children.

Professor Chakravarty has been a consultant in rheumatology since 1994 after finishing his training in Oxford and the East Anglian region. He conducts an educational and patient responsive service through his clinics at Spire Hartswood Hospital. Professor Chakravarty was elected Hon Secretary for the British Society for Rheumatology after working as Council member and member of the Clinical Affairs committee and External Relations Committe from 2000-2008.

He has been a Visiting and Host Examiner for the MRCP Royal College of Physicians of London for the last ten years and also a member of the Question Setting group for the Specialty Certificate Examination (SCE). Professor Chakravarty is also an examiner for the Professional and Linguistics Assessment Board (PLAB) conducted by the GMC and the undergraduate examination at Bart's and The London School of Medicine. He is an editorial board member of two major journals and reviews articles for more than a dozen journals in rheumatology.

Professor Chakravarty has published more than 100 peer reviewed articles and has contributed to chapters in the Oxford Text Book of Rheumatology, Oxford Hand Book of Investigations and the Text Book of Rheumatology (Klippel and Dieppe). He has developed national guidelines including Connective Tissue Guidelines published by ARMA. He has also contributed to self help booklets on vasculitis and rheumatoid arthritis published by LUPUS UK.

I am a keen cricketer and represented my university during my student life in India. I have played in several clubs in Oxford and Norwich.

Personal profile:
I am a keen cricketer and represented my university during my student life in India. I have played in several clubs in Oxford and Norwich.

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Professor Kuntal Chakravarty, consultant rheumatologist, Spire Hartswood private hospital, Brentwood, Essex

For more information or to book an appointment

To book an appointment with one of our specialist consultants call 01277 266 766.

For other enquiries, including guide prices for treatment, call 01277 266 761. 

Listen now

Spire Healthcare podcast

Listen to Professor Kuntal Chakravarty discuss Raynaud's phenomenon, a condition where the extremities of he body become starved of blood.

This interview was first broadcast on Phoenix fm, the local radio station for Brentwood and Billericay.
 

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