Rakesh Modi

Biography

Biography

Rakesh studied pre-clinical medicine and BA in mechanisms of disease at the University of Cambridge. He graduated from clinical school at UCL in 2011 and undertook foundation training in UCLH and barnet hospitals. Rakesh undertook an Academic Clinical Fellowship in general practice as part of his training at the Royal Free Hospital VTS and then received a Msc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. During training he also completed the MRCP, DCH and DRCOG, achieving the medal for the highest scoring candidate. After practice in London he moved to Cambridgeshire where he is a salaried GP in a rural practice and leads on quality improvement and education.

Rakesh performed research in autism at the University of Cambridge, the psychological effects of plastic surgery at the Royal Free and international vaccine policy at UCL before his academic fellowship at UCL when he focussed on childhood infectious disease in developing countries. He has lectured, tutored and course-organised at UCL and the Royal Society of Medicine on pathology and public health. Rakesh ran international projects for the RCGP on their Junior International Committee. He has been awarded a number of grants, distinctions and prizes and has delivered over 20 international presentations and workshops.

Rakesh was awarded the Wellcome Trust Primary Care PhD fellowship in 2019 and is looking at how to implement atrial fibrillation (AF) screening as part of the SAFER trial. His will employ mixed methods to contribute to the process evaluation, specifically looking at GP practice factors that are barriers and facilitators to AF screening.

Publications

Publications

• An analysis of qualitative and mixed methods abstracts from Japanese, UK and US primary care conferences. Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2018 Nov 22;17:11
• Ethical considerations for medical volunteering overseas. 2nd Author. Royal College of General Practitioners 2018
• Caregiver Recall in Childhood Vaccination Surveys: Systematic Review of Recall Quality and Use in Low- and Middle-Income Settings. Vaccine 2018 Jul 5;36(29):4161-4170
• ‘The Best Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men’: A Workshop to Teach the Application of Evidence Based Medicine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Education for Primary Care 2018 Mar; 29(2):107-
• Toolkit for GPs planning to work abroad. 3rd Author. Royal College of General Practitioners 2016
• Primary Care Twinning Programme: Think Global, Act Local. 1st Author. Royal College of General Practitioners 2016
• Challenges facing early career primary care researchers across Europe. Senior Author. Education for Primary Care 2016 Sep;27(5):425-426
• Cardiovascular health monitoring in patients with psychotic illnesses: A project to investigate and improve performance in primary and secondary care. 1st Author. BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2013 Mar 19;2(1)
• The Observer Response to Disfigurement: Designing Facial Eye Tracking Experiments. 2nd Author. Abstract: British Journal of Surgery 2012; 99 (4):63-64
• A Robust Approach to Facial Eye Tracking Experiments and their Application to Plastic Surgery. 1st Author. Abstract: British Journal of Surgery 2011; 98 (2):57-58