Doctor Ravi Gowda

Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine with an interest in Tropical Medicine at Travel Klinix, Coventry - UK

Doctor Ravi Gowda  specialized in Infectious Diseases
Country

United Kingdom

Speciality
Infectious Diseases
Subspeciality
167
Experience
1991 years
Languages
English

Areas of expertise

  • Infectious diseases
  • General Medicine
  • Tropical Medicine
  • Parasitic infections
  • Travel health - advice on vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis
  • HIV
  • Malaria
  • Tuberculosis
  • Pyrexia of unknown origin
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Infectious hepatitis
  • Cellulitis
  • Gastro-enteritis
  • Lyme Disease

About the expert

Dr. Ravi Gowda is currently a consultant in Infectious Diseases at University Hospitals Coventry. He has extensive experience in Infectious Diseases with a particular interest in Tropical Medicine and Travel Health.

Dr. Ravi Gowda has developed a new Infectious Diseases service for Coventry with the establishment of an expert inpatient service for complex imported tropical conditions.

He has developed academic links with Warwick Medical School and is actively involved in teaching and research.

Dr. Ravi contributed to 4 publications.

Videos of the expert

    Dr Gowda is an infection specialist based in the West Midlands, UK. Over the course of 26 years, he has developed extensive expertise in the fields of Infection, General Internal Medicine, Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine and Family Health Medicine.

    This has been augmented by achieving a number of postgraduate specialist qualifications ensuring the highest standard of practice.

    His primary medical degree was obtained at the highly regarded University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Medical school. Following this, he has achieved the following postgraduate specialist qualifications...

    MRCP(UK) - membership of the royal college of physicians

    MRCGP - membership of the royal college of general practitioners

    DCH - diploma of child health

    DRCOG - diploma of the royal college of obstetrics and gynaecology

    DFFP - diploma of the faculty of family planning

    DTM&H- diploma of tropical medicine and hygiene (Liverpool school of tropical medicine)

    After setting up and leading a clinical infectious diseases service at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Dr Gowda has since collaborated with various healthcare and academic partners and developed innovative new services in the independent sector.

    He is the founder of RG Health, a health consultancy organisation and Travel Klinix, a health and well-being service specializing in Travel Health and vaccinations.

  • Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine

    2014 - Today

    Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine,University Hospitals Coventry

  • DIPLOMA OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

    LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE

    2002

  • MRCGP

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

    1998

  • DIPLOMA OF CHILD HEALTH

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS (UK)

    1997

  • DIPLOMA OF OBSTETRICS AND GYANECOLOGY

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYANECOLOGY

    1996

  • DFFM

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

    1996

  • MRCP

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS (UK)

    1994

  • MBBS

    UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

    1991

  • EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES (2014)

  • BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIVER (2014)

  • MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES (2014)

  • MEMBER OF THE BRITISH INFECTION ASSOCIATION (2013)

  • GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL GMC (2013)

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