Dr Parameshwar did his undergraduate medical training in Pondicherry, India followed by residency in Internal Medicine in New Delhi. His cardiology training was in Hillingdon Hospital and at the National Heart and Brompton Hospitals.
He was actively involved in research into predicting prognosis in heart failure and exercise testing in heart failure.
He joined the transplant programme at Royal Papworth hospital in 1991 and became a consultant in 1996. He is recognised nationally and internationally for his work in heart transplantation. He has published over 100 papers in the field of heart transplantation and has a national and international profile in the field. He was involved in setting up the advanced heart failure and mechanical circulatory support programme with surgical colleagues. He is the Chairman of the Cardiothoracic Advisory Group at NHS Blood and Transplant.
Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support
Immunosuppression
MBBS, MD, MPhil, FRCP
Member of the Cardiothoracic Advisory Group NHSBT
Member of the UK VAD Forum
Audit Group NHSBT and RCS
Al-Lamiki RS, Brookes AP, Wang J, Reid MJ, Parameshwar J, Goddard MJ, Tellides G, Wan T, Min W, Pober JS, Bradley JR. TNF Receptors differentially signal and are differentially expressed and regulated in the human heart. Am J Transplant 2009;9:2679-2696.
Parker A, Bowles K, Bradley JA, Emery V, Featherstone C, Gupte G, Marcus R, Parameshwar J, Ramsay A, Newstead C; Writing Group: On behalf of the Haemato-oncology Task Force of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology and British Transplantation Society. Diagnosis of post-transplant Lymphoproliferative disorder in solid organ transplant recipients – BCSH and BTS Guidleines. Br J Haematol. 2010;149(5):675-692.
Parker A, Bowles K, Bradley JA, Emery V, Featherstone C, Gupte G, Marcus R, Parameshwar J, Ramsay A, Newstead C; Writing Group: On behalf of the Haemato-oncology Task Force of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology and British Transplantation Society. Diagnosis of post-transplant Lymphoproliferative disorder in solid organ transplant recipients – BCSH and BTS Guidleines. Br J Haematol. 2010;149(5):675-692
Mehra MR, Parameshwar J. Gene expression profiling and cardiac allograft rejection monitoring: is IMAGE just a mirage? J Heart Lung Transplant 2010;29:599-602.
Mehra MR, Crespo-Leiro MG, Dipchand A, Ensminger SM, Hiemann NE, Kobashigawa JA, Madsen J, Parameshwar J, Starling RC, Uber PA. ISHLT working formulation of a standardized nomenclature for cardiac allograft vasculopathy—2010. J Heart Lung Transplant 2010;29:717-727
Banner NR, Bonser RS, Clark AL, Clark S, Cowburn PJ, Gardner RS, Kalra PR, McDonagh T, Rogers CA, Swan L, Parameshwar J, Thomas HL, Williams SG. UK guigelines for referral and assessment of adults for heart transplantation. Heart 2011;97(18):1520-1527
Crespo-Leiro MG, Zuckermann A, Bara C, Mohacsi P, Schulz U, Boyle A, Ross HJ, Parameshwar J, Zakliczyński M, Fiocchi R, Stypmann J, Hoefer D, Lehmkuhl H, Deng MC, Leprince P, Berry G, Marboe CC, Stewart S, Tazelaar HD, Baron HM, Coleman IC, Vanhaecke J. Concordance Among Pathologists in the Second Cardiac Allograft Rejection Gene Expression Observational Study (CARGO II). Transplantation 2012 Dec 15;94(11):1172-1177.
