Uma Ramaswami MBBS, DCH, MRCPCH, FRCPCH, MSC, MD

Dr Uma Ramaswami is a consultant in Inherited Metabolic Disorders with over ten years’ experience in the management of metabolic disorders, with a focus on Lysosomal storage disorders. As a consultant at the Lysosomal Disorders Unit at the Royal Free Hospital, her current role includes the management of adolescence and young adults with Lysosomal disorders (LSD)including the transition from paediatric centres to and supporting the clinical trial unit. She trained in paediatric metabolic disorders at Great Ormond Street and Temple Street children's hospital in Dublin.

During her career as a consultant, she has managed a wide variety of Inherited Metabolic Disorders, to begin within a smaller unit and then in a larger unit in Manchester. Previously, as a consultant in Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Disorders at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, she worked alongside four colleagues, with busy inpatient, out-patient and on-call commitments for all children with metabolic diseases.