Dr Madhura Castelino

Madhura Castelino is a consultant rheumatologist in adult rheumatology at University College Hospital (UCH) and honorary clinical lecturer at University College London. She leads the clinical trials, spondyloarthritis service and biologics service for the Rheumatology Department and is the divisional audit lead for Medical Specialties at UCH. She has professional interest in the pathogenesis and management of inflammatory arthritis especially spondyloarthritis (psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis), musculoskeletal imaging and clinical photoacoustic imaging. She is an experienced principal investigator in several clinical studies including commercial and non-commercial trials at UCH.

Her research interests include the role of the microbiome in inflammatory arthritis especially spondyloarthritis, patient related outcomes in chronic disease and imaging in inflammatory arthritis. She has established the UCL Rheumatology Patient Partners, a patient public involvement and engagement initiative to support patient focussed research.

She is the deputy clinical academic lead for UCLH in the UK Musculoskeletal Translational Research Collaboration. She has contributed to the UK GCA consortium and OUTPASS Study Syndicate. Madhura completed her initial medical training at Manipal University, India and clinical training in rheumatology in the North West Deanery, Manchester, U.K.

She also holds an MSc in Clinical Rheumatology (2011) and a PhD in Rheumatology (2016) on the microbiome in psoriatic arthritis from the University of Manchester.