Raashid Luqmani
Raashid qualified in 1982 (Nottingham University). He completed his medical rotation in North Staffordshire, and further rheumatology training in Southampton and Birmingham. He was first appointed consultant in Edinburgh 1994 and moved to Oxford as consultant and senior lecturer in 2005.
His clinical and research interests are in systemic vasculitis. Raashid is author of several papers and book chapters on vasculitis. He has also produced guidelines for management of rheumatoid arthritis for the British Society for Rheumatology. Raashid has been awarded research grants in vasculitis. He is one of the programme directors and tutors on the MSc in Rheumatology course.
His main research projects at present include TABUL, a multi-centre blinded study to compare temporal artery biopsy with ultrasound in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme for four years, and DCVAS, an international multi-centre study which will recruit over 3,500 patients. The aim of the study is to produce both a new validate set of classification criteria for the primary systemic vsaculitides as well as a validated set of diagnostic criteria for the primary systemic vasculitides. The project is co-funded by the American College of Rheumatology, the European League Against Rheumatism, and the Vasculitis Foundation.
