Amolak Bansal
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Doctor Amolak Singh Bansal is a consultant immunologist. He spent most of his career, until his retirement, at the Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals in the United Kingdom. He now practices one day a week at the Spire St Anthony's Hospital near Cheam, Surrey. 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[edit | edit source]
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.[1]
Current ongoing work[edit | edit source]
- Evaluation of glucocorticoid receptor resistance in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as determined from leucocyte GCRalpha and beta mRNA.[2]
Notable studies[edit | edit source]
- 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 [3] (Abstract)
- 2012, Chronic fatigue syndrome, the immune system and viral infection[4] (Abstract)
- 2013, Altered functional B cell subset populations in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome compared to healthy controls.[5] (Full Text)
- 2013, The Immune System in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome[6] (Abstract)
- 2014, Psychosocial factors involved in memory and cognitive failures in people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome[7] (Full Text)
- 2016, Investigating unexplained fatigue in general practice with a particular focus on CFS/ME[8] (Full Text)
- 2016, Extended B cell phenotype in patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A cross-sectional study[9] (Full Text)
- 2017, Chronic fatigue syndrome and the immune system: Where are we now?[10] (Abstract)
- 2018, CD24 Expression and B Cell Maturation Shows a Novel Link With Energy Metabolism: Potential Implications for Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome[11] (Full Text)
Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]
- Title - "Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME)"
- 2014, Speaker at the 9th Invest in ME BRMEC conference - [Conference Report]
- Talk title - "Diagnosis/Treatments and ME in UK"
- 2014, Seminarium om barn och unga med ME/CFS (video)
- 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"
Online presence[edit | edit source]
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Learn more[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Invest in ME Research (2014). "Invest in ME 4th Biomedical Research for ME Conference and 9th Invest in ME Research Conference Report" (PDF).
- ↑ Bansal, Amolak. "Seminarium om barn och unga med ME/CFS".
- ↑ Collin, Simon M.; Crawley, Esther; May, Margaret T.; Sterne, Jonathan A.C.; Hollingworth, William (September 15, 2015). Contributors: O'Dowd, Hazel; Butt, K; Dunn, D; Pemberton, Sue; White, Peter; Murphy, Maurice; Mullick, Y; Bansal, Amolak. "The impact of CFS/ME on employment and productivity in the UK: a cross-sectional study based on the CFS/ME national outcomes database". BMC health services research. 11: 217. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-11-217. ISSN 1472-6963. PMC 3184626. PMID 21923897.
- ↑ Bansal, A.S.; Bradley, A.S.; Bishop, K.N.; Kiani-Alikhan, S.; Ford, B. (January 2012). "Chronic fatigue syndrome, the immune system and viral infection". Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 26 (1): 24–31. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2011.06.016. ISSN 1090-2139. PMID 21756995.
- ↑ Bradley, AS; Ford, B; Bansal, Amolak (2013), "Altered functional B cell subset populations in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome compared to healthy controls", Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 172 (1): 73–80, doi:10.1111/cei.12043
- ↑ Bradley, AS; Ford, B; Bansal, Amolak (2013), "The Immune System in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", Advances in Neuroimmune Biology, 4 (4): 255-263, doi:10.3233/NIB-130068
- ↑ Attree, Elizabeth A; Arroll, Megan A; Dancey, Christine P; Griffith, Charlene; Bansal, Amolak S (February 25, 2014). "Psychosocial factors involved in memory and cognitive failures in people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome". Psychology Research and Behavior Management. 7: 67–76. doi:10.2147/PRBM.S50645. ISSN 1179-1578. PMC 3940708. PMID 24596470.
- ↑ Bansal, Amolak (July 19, 2016), "Investigating unexplained fatigue in general practice with a particular focus on CFS/ME", BMC Family Practice, 17 (81), doi:10.1186/s12875-016-0493-0
- ↑ Mensah, Fane; Bansal, Amolak; Berkovitz, Saul; Sharma, Arti; Reddy, Venkat; Leandro, Maria; Cambridge, Geraldine (2016), "Extended B cell phenotype in patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A cross-sectional study", Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 184 (2): 237-247, doi:10.1111/cei.12749
- ↑ Mensah, Fane; Bansal, Amolak; Ford, Brian; Cambridge, Geraldine (2017), "Chronic fatigue syndrome and the immune system: Where are we now?", Neurophysiologie Clinique, 47 (2): 131-138, doi:10.1016/j.neucli.2017.02.002
- ↑ Mensah, Fane F.K.; Armstrong, Christopher W.; Reddy, Venkat; Bansal, Amolak S.; Berkovitz, Saul; Leandro, Maria J.; Cambridge, Geraldine (2018). "CD24 Expression and B Cell Maturation Shows a Novel Link With Energy Metabolism: Potential Implications for Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". Frontiers in Immunology. 9. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2018.02421. ISSN 1664-3224.
