Amolak Bansal

Doctor Amolak Bansal is a consultant immunologist at the Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals in the United Kingdom. He has researched the involvement of B cells (also known as B lymphocytes) in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). His professional interests are allergy, autoimmunity, CFS/ME and immunodeficiency.

Bansal Score Chart for ME/CFS
Dr. Bansal developed a diagnostic scoring system, the Bansal Score Chart for ME/CFS, in order to improve the diagnostic certainty for primary and secondary care physicians.

Current ongoing work

 * Evaluation of Glucocorticoid receptor resistance in CFS as determined from leucocyte GCRalpha and beta mRNA.

Notable studies

 * 2016, Investigating unexplained fatigue in general practice with a particular focus on CFS/ME. Full Text
 * 2015, Extended B cell phenotype in patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A cross-sectional study by Fane Mensah, Amolak Bansal, Saul Berkovitz, Arti Sharma, Venkat Reddy, Maria Leandro, Geraldine Cambridge, funded by Invest in ME (Full Text)
 * 2014, Psychosocial factors involved in memory and cognitive failures in people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome by (Attree EA, Arroll MA, Dancey CP, Griffith C, Amolak Bansal) (Full Text)
 * 2013, Altered functional B cell subset populations in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome compared to healthy controls. (Full Text)
 * 2012, Chronic fatigue syndrome, the immune system and viral infection (Amolak Bansal, Bradley AS, Bishop KN, Kiani-Alikhan S, Ford B.)
 * 2011, The impact of CFS/ME on employment and productivity in the UK: a cross-sectional study based on the CFS/ME national outcomes database (Collin SM, Crawley E, May MT, Sterne JA, Hollingworth W, O'Dowd H, Butt K, Dunn D, Pemberton S, White P, Murphy M, Mullick Y, Amolak Bansal)

Talks and interviews

 * 2015, Jorgen Jelstad TV interview at ME conference (18 Nov 2015)
 * 2015, Speaker at the 10th Invest in ME International ME Conference - DVD available
 * Talk title - "Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis: Combining clinic and research"


 * 2014, Speaker at the 9th Invest in ME BRMEC conference - [Conference Report]
 * Talk title - "Diagnosis/Treatments and ME in UK"


 * 2014, 2014 - Dr. Amolak S. Bansal - Seminarium om barn och unga med ME/CFS
 * 2012, Croydon GP Education Programme slide presentation
 * Title - "Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME)"

Online presence

 * PubMed

Learn more

 * Epsom & St Helier Hospitals - Amolak Bansal