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Professor Rajesh Varma

Professor Rajesh Varma, PhD · Director, MD Acumen Ltd
GP Partner & GP Trainer, The Colne Practice, Rickmansworth
Convenor for GP Trainers, West Hertfordshire
Vice Chair, RCGP Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Faculty
Professor, New Vision University, Georgia · Professor, East-West University, Georgia
NICE Guideline Committee Member (Osteoporosis) · Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge

Clinical practice. NHS GP Partner and GP Trainer at The Colne Practice, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, with over twenty years of UK primary-care practice. Extended-scope expertise across the diabetes-cardiorenal-metabolic, menopause-andropause and clinical-headache domains, with osteoporosis and metabolic bone health as a parallel focus. Dual CCT specialist in Obstetrics & Gynaecology and in Primary Care (GMC 4196453).

Academic appointments. Professor of Cardiovascular–Renal–Metabolic (CVRM) Medicine and Women’s Health at New Vision University, Tbilisi; Professor at East-West University, Georgia; Visiting Researcher, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge. Curriculum author for the two Certificates of Advanced Studies — Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Medicine and Heart Failure, and Menopause and Andropause. He signs every page revision before it is published.

Professional leadership. Convenor for GP Trainers, West Hertfordshire, and Vice Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners’ Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Faculty.

Guideline-development role. Member of the NICE Osteoporosis Guideline Development Committee — sitting at the table where pivotal guidelines are written, while the credentialled curriculum he authors is aligned to those same guidelines.

For students and graduates. Convenes the observership’s Hertfordshire seminar programme in person, scopes and mentors student audit projects — several to publication — and leads the PLAB 2 OSCE course faculty.

Doctoral research. PhD, University of Birmingham (2009) — An investigation of basic science and clinical research methodologies to benefit clinical practice.

Credentials. MRCGP. GMC registration 4196453. Dual CCT in Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Primary Care. PhD (Birmingham, 2009). ORCID 0000-0003-4672-4461 · LinkedIn.

Research interests. Medical-education methodology, assessment validity, and the standards that keep a credential rigorous and trustworthy; the cardiovascular-renal-metabolic continuum and its translation into primary-care decision-support; the timing-of-initiation hypothesis in menopause hormone therapy; the CGRP-era pharmacology of migraine prevention; and osteoporosis risk-stratification in the perimenopausal and andropausal patient. Full list at Research & publications.

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Professor Tham Nimal-Raj

Co-founder of the concept and adviser · Chancellor, New Vision University (UK Campus) · Founder & Chair, Essex Medical Society · Senior Partner, Sai Medical Practice · Professor of Family Medicine and Anatomy

Role at MD Acumen. Professor Nimal-Raj co-founded the concept of the school and supports and advises it. He holds no course directorship, no content role and no financial control at MD Acumen Ltd, and recuses himself from any New Vision University decision that concerns MD Acumen.

Clinical practice. A senior clinician with over four decades in the UK NHS: Senior Partner at Sai Medical Practice, and previously Chief Clinical Officer within an NHS Clinical Commissioning Group. Clinical specialism in hypertension, diabetes and community diagnostics.

Academic and professional standing. Chancellor of New Vision University (UK Campus); Professor of Family Medicine and Anatomy and author of textbooks on anatomy and ultrasound; Founder and Chair of the Essex Medical Society, a regional learned society; Fellow of the Royal Society of Health; former Council Member of the British Medical Association.