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Consultant Profile

Professor B Dasgupta

Name:
Professor B Dasgupta MB BS, MD, FRCP
Practising at:
Spire Wellesley Hospital
Specialties:
  • Rheumatology
    Special clinical interests:

    Rheumatoid arthritis
    - Osteoporosis
    - Polymyalgia rheumatica
    - Pagets disease
    - Paediatric Rheumatology
    - Giant cell arteritis
    - Lupus
    - Vasculitis
    - Musculoskeletal ultrasound

     

     

    Research interests:

    - Polymyalgia rheumatica
    - Giant cell arteritis
    - Osteoporosis
    - Rheumatoid arthritis
    - Lupus
    - Vasculitis

    Current NHS and /or university posts:

    Consultant Rheumatologist - Southend Hospital NHS Trust
    Clinical Director Research and Audit
    Honorary Professor, Essex University

    Year of first medical qualification:
    1978
    Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:

    British Society of Rheumatology
    Convenor BSR Special Interest Group Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis
    American College of Rheumatology
    Member of Essex and Hertfordshire CLRN Board
    MSK Speciality Lead E&H CLRN

     
    Contact Details 
    Telephone number to make a private appointment:
    01702 719048
    Private secretary telephone number:
    01702 719048
    Personal email address:
     
    Background Information 
    Professional profile:

    Consultant Rheumatologist for 19 years. Main interests in Polymyalgia rheumatica, Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid arthritis and Vasculitis. Director of Research and Audit at Southend Hospital.

    Professor Dasgupta is an international expert on large vessel vasculitis. He leads the multi-disciplinary national group that has developed guidelines on PMR and GCA; co-author of EULAR recommendations on medium/small vessel and large vessel vasculitis, lead researcher in the international ACR and EULAR sponsored classification criteria study for the Polymyalgic Syndrome.

    He is a national expert on musculoskeletal ultrasound and has convened and instructed at several national courses. He lectures frequently at national and international meetings and has published numerous articles, reviews and textbook chapters on vasculitis, PMR, GCA, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and ultrasonography.

     

     

     

     

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    Professor B Dasgupta

    Professor B Dasgupta Rheumatology Consultant, Southend On Sea, Essex, private hospital specialist.

    Prof Dasgupta welcomes appropriate patients wishing to refer and pay for treatment themselves without the need for a GP's letter of referral.

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    01702 447 926

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