Consultant Oncologist and Network GIST Lead
Department of Medical Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
Dr Ramesh Bulusu has graduated from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India and completed his Oncology training at the Beatson Oncology Centre, Glasgow, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge and Churchill hospital, Oxford, before taking up his consultant position in Cambridge and Bedford in 2002.
He is the founder/chairman of the Cambridge Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour (GIST) Study Group and the network lead for GISTs in Cambridge.
He has served as the Track leader and member of the Sarcoma Track of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Scientific Committee from 2013-2017. He is an active member of American Society of Clinical Oncology, European Society of Medical Oncology, British Thoracic Oncology Group, Connective Tissue Oncology Society and British Sarcoma Group.
Dr Bulusu is passionate about GISTs and is currently leads a national focus group PAWS-GIST consortium (paediatric, adolescent, wild type and syndromic GIST). In 2014, he has established a national clinic in Cambridge for PAWS-GIST patients (only the second clinic of its kind in the whole world) to coordinate and facilitate research in this rare subgroup of GISTs.
Dr Bulusu and the PAWS-GIST consortium have been awarded the UK NCRI Collaboration award in November 2019 at the NCRI conference in Glasgow.
He has co-authored the UK GIST clinical practice guidelines in 2004, 2009 and 2017 and has presented and lectured extensively in national and international conferences.
He is one of the founder members of the International SDH deficient GIST consortium established in 2018.
