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Current NHS consultant posts held

Princess Elizabeth Hospital
Consultant Haematologist
Guernsey

Research interests

Anaemia and Rare Anaemias
Fatigue syndromes
MDS & Leukaemias
Lymphoma & Myeloma

Personal interests

Cricket - avid fan

Publications

1.Homozygous mutations in a predicted endonuclease are a novel cause of congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type I.

Babbs C, Roberts NA, Sanchez-Pulido L, McGowan SJ, Ahmed MR, Brown JM, Sabry MA; WGS500 Consortium, Bentley DR, McVean GA, Donnelly P, Gileadi O, Ponting CP, Higgs DR, Buckle VJ.

Haematologica. 2013 Sep;98(9):1383-7. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2013.089490. Epub 2013 May 28.

2.Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis demonstrates a significant association of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFA) with primary immune thrombocytopenia among Caucasian adults.

Sarpatwari A, Bussel JB, Ahmed M, Erqou S, Semple JW, Newland AC, Bennett D, Pharoah P, Provan D.

Hematology. 2011 Jul;16(4):243-8. doi: 10.1179/102453311X13025568941808.

3.Frequency of congenital dyserythropoietic anemias in Europe.

Heimpel H, Matuschek A, Ahmed M, Bader-Meunier B, Colita A, Delaunay J, Garcon L, Gilsanz F, Goede J, Högel J, Kohne E, Leichtle R, Munoz J, Perrotta S, Piscopo C, Renella R, Schwarz K, Smolenska-Sym G, Wickramasinghe S, Zanella A, Iolascon A.

Eur J Haematol. 2010 Jul;85(1):20-5.

4.Association between cerebral palsy and erythromycin.

Azizia M, Ahmed M.

Lancet. 2009 Jan 3;373(9657):25-6; author reply 26. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61946-7.

5.Linkage and mutational analysis of the CDAN1 gene reveals genetic heterogeneity in congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type I.

Ahmed MR, Chehal A, Zahed L, Taher A, Haidar J, Shamseddine A, O'Hea AM, Bienz N, Dgany O, Avidan N, Beckmann JS, Tamary H, Higgs D, Vyas P, Wood WG, Wickramasinghe SN.

Blood. 2006 Jun 15;107(12):4968-9. No abstract available.

6.Evidence of genetic heterogeneity in congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia type I.

Ahmed MR, Zaki M, Sabry MA, Higgs D, Vyas P, Wood W, Wickramasinghe SN.

Br J Haematol. 2006 May;133(4):444-5; author reply 446. No abstract available.

7.Natural history of GATA1 mutations in Down syndrome.

Ahmed M, Sternberg A, Hall G, Thomas A, Smith O, O'Marcaigh A, Wynn R, Stevens R, Addison M, King D, Stewart B, Gibson B, Roberts I, Vyas P.

Blood. 2004 Apr 1;103(7):2480-9. Epub 2003 Dec 4.

8.Global down-regulation of HOX gene expression in PML-RARalpha + acute promyelocytic leukemia identified by small-array real-time PCR.

Thompson A, Quinn MF, Grimwade D, O'Neill CM, Ahmed MR, Grimes S, McMullin MF, Cotter F, Lappin TR.

Blood. 2003 Feb 15;101(4):1558-65.