Sejal Saglani

Biography

Sejal Saglani completed her undergraduate degree in medicine at the University of Leicester. Dr Saglani then undertook her clinical training in general paediatrics in the Thames Region. Further training at The Royal London Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Royal Brompton Hospital allowed her to obtain her Certificate of Specialist Training in Respiratory Paediatrics. Dr Saglani took time out of her clinical training to carry out her postgraduate research at the National Heart and Lung Institute and The Royal Brompton Hospital, funded by Asthma UK, and supervised by Professor Andrew Bush and Professor Peter Jeffery. She obtained her MD degree investigating the pathology of infant and preschool wheeze and received the NHLI Thesis prize for best thesis. Her main clinical interests include the diagnosis and management of difficult asthma in children and also the management of severe infant and preschool wheeze. Subsequent to completing her clinical training, Dr Saglani obtained a British Lung Foundation Research Fellowship to develop a neonatal mouse model of allergic airways disease. The establishment of this model has allowed her to obtain a Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellowship.

Research Interest

pathology