Dr Rudy Sinharay Consultant Respiratory Physician

Background

Dr Rudy Sinharay is a consultant respiratory and general medical physician at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Dr Sinharay is the lead clinician at the trust for the lung cancer service and multidisciplinary team, and also runs a pleural and general respiratory clinic.

His clinical expertise includes general and acute medicine, respiratory medicine, lung cancer, pleural diseases, interventional bronchoscopy, and airway diseases. He is highly experienced in performing advanced diagnostic procedures such as bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), and various pleural interventions. He completed his specialist training in respiratory and general internal medicine in London, gaining extensive experience at renowned institutions such as St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Royal Free Hospital, and University College London Hospital. Before taking on a substantive consultant role at Imperial College Healthcare in 2019, Dr Sinharay worked as a locum consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Sinharay holds an MD(res) from Imperial College London for his research conducted at the Royal Brompton Hospital, which explored the impact of air pollution on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and ischaemic heart disease, an area which he has extensively published in. He continues to contribute to academia as an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. He is involved with the Imperial College Medical School undergraduate teaching program and is an Imperial Academic Tutor. Dr Sinharay is an author and editor of medical textbooks published by Oxford University Press. Dr Sinharay’s 20 years' experience as a doctor dedicated to patient care, combined with his academic contributions and procedural expertise, ensures comprehensive and high-quality care for his patients.

 

Expertise

Lung cancer, pleural disease, interventional bronchoscopy, airway diseases (asthma and COPD), general respiratory medicine, cough, breathlessness, general and acute medicine.

Research & publications

His research interests include the effects of air quality on respiratory disease, and he is a current co-investigator of an MRC funded study investigating the health effects of particulate matter in the London Underground on patients with COPD. He has also presented work on lung cancer at several international conferences.

Holden S, Barker AP, Babar J, Karia S, Gupta N, Sinharay R, Marciniak SJ. Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax as the presenting manifestation of filamin A-associated lung disease. ERJ Open Res. 2024 Sep 30;10(5).

Cheng SL, Hedges M, Keski-Rahkonen P, Chatziioannou AC, Scalbert A, Chung KF, Sinharay R, Green DC, de Kok TMCM, Vlaanderen J, Kyrtopoulos SA, Kelly F, Portengen L, Vineis P, Vermeulen RCH, Chadeau-Hyam M, Dagnino S.
Multiomic Signatures of Traffic-Related Air Pollution in London Reveal Potential Short-Term Perturbations in Gut Microbiome-Related Pathways.
Environ Sci Technol. 2024 May 21;58(20):8771-8782.

Preston GW, Dagnino S, Ponzi E, Sozeri O, van Veldhoven K, Barratt B, Liu S, Grigoryan H, Lu SS, Rappaport SM, Chung KF, Cullinan P, Sinharay R, Kelly FJ, Chadeau-Hyam M, Vineis P, Phillips DH. Relationships between airborne pollutants, serum albumin adducts and short-term health outcomes in an experimental crossover study. Chemosphere. 2019 Aug 24;239.

van Veldhoven K, Kiss A, Keski-Rahkonen P, Robinot N, Scalbert A, Cullinan P, Chung KF, Collins P, Sinharay R, Barratt BM, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Rodoreda AA, Carrasco-Turigas G, Vlaanderen J, Vermeulen R, Portengen L, Kyrtopoulos SA, Ponzi E, Chadeau-Hyam M, Vineis P. Impact of short-term traffic-related air pollution on the metabolome - Results from two metabolome-wide experimental studies. Environ Int. 2019 Feb;123:124-131.

Cui X, Gong J, Han H, He L, Teng Y, Tetley T, Sinharay R, Chung KF, Islam T, Gilliland F, Grady S