Dr. Ramu Chimakurthi

United Kingdom (NHS)

• Consultant Transplant Hepatologist, Leeds Liver Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
• Post CCT Fellow in Hepatology, Leeds Liver Unit
• Specialist Registrar – Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Internal Medicine
  Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital
  Plymouth Teaching Hospitals
  Torbay Hospitals
  North Devon District Hospital
• Core Medical & Specialty Trainee, Torbay & Plymouth Hospitals
• Foundation Training, Lewisham, Kent & Canterbury Hospitals

India

House Surgeon, Government General Hospital, Kakinada

• Liver Transplantation (Pre- & Post-transplant Care)
• Living Donor Liver Transplantation
• Immune-Mediated Liver Diseases - AIH, PSC, PBC, Sarcoidosis
• Viral Hepatitis (A–E, CMV)
• Alcohol Related & Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
• Decompensated Cirrhosis & Complications - Ascites, Variceal Bleeding, Hepatic Encephalopathy
• Acute & Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure
• Pregnancy-Associated Liver Disease
• Genetic Cholestatic Liver Disorders
• Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI)
• Portal Hypertension, Budd-Chiari Syndrome, TIPSS
• Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)

• Checkpoint Inhibitor Induced Cholangiopathy-  Frontline Gastroenterology Nov 2025.
• O33 CM101, a novel monoclonal antibody targeting CCL24, in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis: results from spring study -  Conference Paper BSG June 2025.
• Global Variation in Living Donor Liver Transplantation Practices Impacts Donor and Recipient Short-Term Outcomes: Initial Insights from the International LDLT Registry. - American Journal of Transplantation Apr 25 (Contributed data).
• Decompensated cirrhosis – a timely intervention?- Abstract/Conference Paper BASL 2024
• Incidence, risk factors and outcomes of checkpoint inhibitor-induced liver injury: A 10-year real-world retrospective cohort study- JHEP Reports-2023.
• NAFLD in Psoriatic Disease: Identifying patients at high risk of serious liver disease. -Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. May 2023.
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty liver disease in spondyloarthritis: Identifying patients on therapy at high risk of serious liver disease. -British Journal of Rheumatology. April 2023.
• Endovascular glue embolization for parastomal variceal bleeding: A retrospective analysis of patient outcomes.- Gut Abstracts for BASL 2022.
• Outcomes following Immune Checkpoint inhibitor re-challenge in patients who developed grade 3 and 4 hepatotoxicity. -Poster presentation-EASL ILC 2022 (EASL, Abstract Number 3419).
• UK Wide Evaluation of Second Line Therapies in Primary Biliary Cholangitis.- Poster presentation-EASL ILC 2021.
• Multicentre evaluation of second-line therapies in primary biliary cholangitis: UK experience.- Conference Paper, GUT-BSG 2021.
• Experience of shielding during the first wave of COVID-19 amongst UK patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) -Conference Paper, GUT-BSG 2021.
• T Cell response in immunosuppressed redo-liver transplant recipients after COVID 10 infection and after the first dose of vaccine against SARS COv-2.-Conference Paper, ILTS 2021.
• Non-directed altruistic living liver donation: Evaluation and outcomes.- HPB-2020.
• Ambulatory liver services avoid admissions and reduce length of stay with high patient satisfaction.-Conference paper, GUT-BSG 2018.
• The risk of chronic kidney disease after liver transplantation is rising in parallel with the increased use of higher-risk grafts. -Journal of Hepatology, Vol 66, Issue 1, S192. & -Poster presentation by one of the authors at EASL ILC 2017.
• Management of High-Risk Colonic Polyps -An Audit of Current Practice.- Poster presentation in GUT-BSG 2014.
• Botulinum Toxin Use in Oesophageal Dysmotility.- Poster presentation GUT-BSG 2014.
• Prospective Study of Peristomal Infections After Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Over A 4-year Period.-Poster presentation UEG 2014.
• Endoscopy Comfort- Views and Practices of BCSP (Bowel Cancer Screening Programme) Colonoscopists in Southwest England. 2012. - Poster presentation in SWG Meeting 2012.
• Oral presentation on Long QT Interval – A Case Study in Southwest -Electrophysiology Group in 2007.

 Memberships

• British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL)
• European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)
• Royal College of Physicians, London (RCP London)