Rajat Chowdhury

Rajat is a Specialist Registrar in Radiology and is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was awarded an Honours degree in biological science from University College London, and completed his medical studies at Oxford University, the Mayo Clinic and Harvard University. He then trained on the surgical rotation at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College, London, and held posts in Accident and Emergency, orthopaedics and trauma, cardiothoracic surgery, general surgery, and plastic surgery. Rajat has a diverse teaching record. He has taught clinical medicine to students and doctors in Oxford and London, and has tutored biochemistry and genetics to undergraduate students at Oxford University. He was an anatomy demonstrator at the Imperial College School of Medicine, London, and was President of the Queen's College Medical Society, Oxford, and of the Hugh Cairns Surgical Society. Rajat's academic awards include Oxford University's Bristol Myers Squibb Prize in Cardiology, the Radcliffe Infirmary Prize for Surgery, the GlaxoSmithKline Medical Fellowship, the Warren Scholarship for Paediatric Studies at the University of Toronto, and the Exhibition Award to Harvard University. He is committed to a career in interventional and academic radiology. He has successfully completed Part 1 of the FRCR examinations, and is the lead author of the forthcoming undergraduate textbook, Radiology at a Glance (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing).