Dr Emma Drasar

Emma trained at St Barts and the Royal London School of Medicine, University of London and qualified in 2001. She was appointed as a Haematology Consultant at The Whittington Hospital and University College Hospitals London in 2016. She completed her haematology training at King's College Hospital where she was appointed Clinical Lecturer in Sickle Cell Disease between 2009 and 2013. During that time was awarded her PhD based on research into markers of severity and predictors of organ dysfunction in sickle cell disease with Professor Swee Lay Thein. In 2013 she was awarded the Early Stage Investigator prize from the British Society of Haematology. She is the North Central Haemoglobinopathy Network Lead and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at UCL.

Specialist interests ?Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassaemia ?Haemochromatosis Research interests ?The effects on the liver of haematological conditions ?Iron overload syndromes