Dr Animesh Singh

Consultant Rheumatologist & General Physician

MBBS BSc. MRCP (Rheum) FRCP

GMC 6130215

About Me

I am a Consultant Rheumatologist and General (internal) Medicine Physician working at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. I aim to offer holistic, evidence-based care to all my patients.

I am proficient in the management of patients with all types of rheumatological disorders with particular interest in rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), osteoporosis, gout and vasculitis. I offer joint and soft-tissue steroid injections for common musculoskeletal problems.

In addition, I am heavily involved with acute and general medicine including the assessment and management of acutely sick patients as well as the investigation of complex undifferentiated symptoms.

At the Royal Free, I run a unique collaborative psoriatic arthritis/ psoriasis clinic with a consultant dermatologist. I am an educational supervisor for junior doctors and clinical tutor for undergraduate medical students. I am an investigator on a number of clinical trials in psoriatic arthritis, giant cell arteritis, the use of immunomodulator drugs in COVID19 and adult onset Still’s disease.

I work with local and national commissioning groups on the use of biologic drugs for autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases.

I maintain good medical practice by staying up to date with weekly attendance of postgraduate lectures and conferences and actively seeking patient feedback. I am up to date with my appraisal and revalidation.

My Approach to Patients

Unfortunately over 10 million people in the UK are affected by arthritic conditions. Although often thought of as a problem of old-age, arthritis can affect people of all ages, and the most common group of patients I see in clinic are young to middle-age women.

I take pride in treating individual patients and not just their medical problems. My clinics are run in a collaborative fashion with my patients, maintaining great respect for their beliefs and background.

Some patients have highly complex medical problems and require a multi-disciplinary approach in formulating a diagnosis and determining optimal treatment. I work with world-leading consultant colleagues at The Physicians’ Clinic and at the Royal Free Hospital. Complex cases are discussed at our MDT meetings allowing input from over 50 specialists where appropriate.

My Background

My undergraduate medical training was at University College London (UCL) where I also undertook an intercalated BSc. in Immunology and was awarded First Class Honours. During my BSc, I undertook a prize-winning Arthritis Research Campaign funded lab project investigating regulatory T cells in rheumatoid arthritis supervised by Prof Mike Ehrenstein at the Windeyer Institute.

My postgraduate medical and rheumatology training has taken place in North and West London at a mixture of extremely busy district-general and world-renowned teaching hospitals. This has given me extensive exposure to the full breadth of rheumatology and general medicine.

I also took a sabbatical from training to work for a multinational pharmaceutical company designing and running global clinical trials in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) and cytokine-release syndrome in leukaemia patients. The results of the phase 3 systemic scleorsis clinical trial where I was the medical monitor, (FocuSSced study), recently led to FDA approval for Tocilizumab in systemic sclerosis lung disease.