Dr Ravishankar Sargur

Dr Ravishankar Sargur has been a consultant immunologist and allergist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2009. He is director of the Sheffield Protein Reference Unit and clinical director of UK NEQAS Immunology, Immunochemistry and Allergy, the national external quality assessment programmes. His interests include immunology diagnostics, laboratory demand optimisation, primary immunodeficiency, urticaria and angioedema, and food, drug and venom allergy; he established the aspirin nasal challenge and desensitisation service at the Northern General Hospital. Ravishankar previously chaired the Specialty Advisory Committee for Immunology at the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board and was training programme director for immunology in Yorkshire and the Humber. He is an associate editor of Annals of Clinical Biochemistry and has a long-standing interest in allergy and immunology education.