Dr. Karim Raza

Working with Dr Karim Raza, a former arc clinical research fellow who now runs the rapid access early synovitis clinic at the City Hospital, Chris Buckley and Mike Salmon have made some important advances in this area.
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With arc funding, Dr Raza and clinical research nurse Kanta Kumar have been looking at the reasons for this.
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Kanta Kumar, Karim Raza and Andrew Filer
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"The main reason for this is that patients don't recognise the significance of their symptoms," says Karim Raza.

Dr Caroline Gordon (Senior Lecturer & Consultant in Rheumatology), Dr Chris Buckley (MRC Senior Clinical Fellow and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist), Dr R D Situnayake (Consultant Rheumatologist), Dr David Carruthers (Consultant Rheumatologist), Dr Nicole Amft (Clinical Lecturer and Specialist Registrar), Dr Karim Raza (ARC Clinical Research Fellow), and Prof Mike Salmon (Professor in Experimental Rheumatology and Honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist at City Hospital).
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Mike Salmon and Caroline Gordon obtained Arthritis Research Campaign (ARC) funding (http://www.arc.org.uk/research/default.html) for a clinical fellowship for Karim Raza to work on the prognostic value of assessing synovial T cell apoptosis, adhesion and synovial tissue mass in chronic and acute inflammatory arthritis.

The need for diagnostic criteria that can detect early disease has become urgent in light of recent findings indicating that aggressive treatment with biologic agents can effectively stem the course of RA progression. �gThere is increasing interest in the concept that the very early phase of clinically apparent RA�\within the first 3 months of symptom onset�\may represent a therapeutic window of opportunity,�h lead investigator Karim Raza, PhD, MRCP, senior lecturer at the Medical School of the University of Birmingham in the UK, told CIAOMed.

Dr Karim RazaDivision of Immunity and Infection
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Dr Karim Raza

Senior Lecturer Tel: 0121 414 3837Email: k.raza@bham.ac.uk

Karim Raza

Clinical Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist

Dr Karim Raza, Clinical lecturer in Rheumatology, University of Birmingham

Karim Raza Clinical Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist