Current NHS consultant posts held
I am currently in the following roles
1. Consultant Rheumatologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, St. George's Hospital and Medical School, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT
2. Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, The Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG
3. Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL Medical School, London
Research interests
Clinical Lead for SLE (lupus) and Connective Tissue Diseases at St. George's Hospital
I oversee the NHS England approved specialist service at St. George's Hospital for Connective Tissue Diseases including lupus.
I organise regular lupus patient meetings, write peer-reviewed articles in this area and contribute to research in the field of SLE
Personal interests
I play Guitar, I enjoy Roman History, music, my family
Awards received
MRC Research Studentship
Research Grants from Pfizer, Janssen,
Publications
Book Chapter
Kaul A, D’Cruz D, Hughes GRV
Chapter 1
Immunopathogenesis of SLE and drug targets
In Novel Immunotherapeutic Agents for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Editors Yehuda Shoenfeld, Pier Luigi Meroni and Ricardo Cervera.Â
Publishers: Future Science Group (2012)
Guidelines
UK Working Party on Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) (2016)
Patient Support Magazines
Kaul A
Lupus and Fatigue
Lupus UK magazine Winter 2016
Journal Publications
• Kaul A, Gordon C, Urowitz M, Touma Z, Ruiz-Izorsta G, Van Vollenhoven R, Hughes GRV
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Editors: Dr. A. Kaul, Prof. GRV Hughes
• Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2: doi:10.1038/nrdp.2016.40 (2016)
• Fuggle, NR, Smith TO, Kaul A, Sofat N
• Hand-to-Mouth: A systemic review and meta analysis of the association between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Periodontitis
• Frontiers in Immunology doi;10.3389/fimmu.2016.00080 (2016)
• Pericleous M, Murray C, Hamilton M, Epstein O, Negus R, Peachey T, Kaul A, O’Beirne J
Using an ‘action set’ for the management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding
Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology 6: 426-437; (2013)
• Kaul A, D. T. O’Reilly, R. K. Slack, D. Collins, J. Walmsley, O. Duke and P. D. W. Kiely
Tolerability of methotrexate and leflunomide combination therapy for inflammatory arthritis in routine clinical practice: results of a four-centre study.
Rheumatol 47: 1430 – 1431 (2008)
• Adamson R, Sangle S, Kaul A, Hughes G R V, D’Cruz D
• Clinical improvement in primary antiphospholipid syndrome after Rituximab therapy. J. Clin. Rheumatol 14: 359-360 (2008)
• Kaul A, D’Cruz D, Hughes G R V
• New therapies for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: has the future arrived?
• Future Rheumatology 1 (2):235-247 (2006)
Courses offered to GPs
Psoriatic Arthritis: Youtube video for patients and GP's
I regularly speak at the annual Ten Topics in Rheumatology for GP's, the last course being October 2016.