Dr. Gita Ramdharry

Dr Gita Ramdharry is a clinical academic Physiotherapist working as a Consultant Allied Health Professional in Neuromuscular Diseases at the Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH NHS Trust). She is an Honorary Associate Professor at UCL Institute of Neurology and Principal Investigator for the Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Research Group (UCL Department of Neuromuscular Diseases).

She qualified in 1995 and developed a special interest in neurology early on. She was a clinical Physiotherapist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery from 2001 and moved into research at the UCL Institute of Neurology in 2004. She completed a PhD in 2008 exploring gait and rehabilitation interventions for people with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Following her PhD, Gita worked for nearly 11 years at the Faculty for Health Social Care and Education at Kingston University/St George's University of London. While there, she was awarded an NIHR Clinical Lectureship in 2010 for further research into Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease as a part-time honorary research fellow at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH. She progressed to an Associate Professor and became the Director of Research for the School of Allied Health, Midwifery and Social Care from 2016 to 2018.

Gita is a research supervisor to MRes, MSc, and PhD students, plus HEE/NIHR ICA Clinical Doctoral Fellows. She teaches on Master's programs at UCL and is co-leader for the Peripheral Nerve Module for the MSc in Neuromuscular Diseases at UCL. Other roles include: Deputy Chair for the HEE/NIHR ICA Doctoral Clinical Academic & Practitioner Fellowship awards; grant panel for Ataxia UK, Myositis UK, CMT United Kingdom; professional advisor to the CMTUK patient support group and Muscular Dystrophy UK; member of the Neuromuscular Physiotherapist Network; former member of the editorial board for the journal 'Physiotherapy'. She is co-editor on two Elsevier book titles: "Physical Management of Neurological Conditions" (4th and 5th editions) and "Pocketbook of Neurological Physiotherapy" (2nd edition).

She also works in the area of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and is the Chair of the EDI committee for the Department of Neuromuscular Diseases at UCL Institute of Neurology, lead for the Institute of Neurology Disability Awareness Group. She is part of the Diversity Committee for the international Inherited Neuropathy consortium and is also leading work to develop recruitment strategies to increase diversity in participant recruitment in the Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL.