OUR TEAM
Banerjee Lab
Academic Staff
Mohamed is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology at University College London and an interventional cardiology registrar at the Barts Heart Centre. His primary academic interest is in cardiovascular outcomes research, with a focus on leveraging large national datasets and registries from the UK and the USA. He has a strong foundation in research methodology and medical statistics, developed during his time as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow. In addition to his research, Dr. Mohamed is actively involved in medical education and clinical leadership, having held several roles that reflect his commitment to these areas.
Rachel is a mixed methods researcher on the EU-funded RAPHAEL study, which integrates the RAPHAEL palliative care approach into existing heart failure care pathways. She is based in the UCL Institute of Health Informatics.
Rachel also works at UCL Social Research Institute on the NIHR-funded Fair Food Futures UK study (led by University of York and UCL). Before this, Rachel held an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship which built on her ethnographic PhD research exploring the impact of ‘Hostile Environment’ policies and legal and financial precarity on mothers' interpersonal relationships and access to support.
Rachel holds a PhD in Sociology from UCL. Her research interests include social and health inequalities, migration and mobilities, support networks, and family and friendship practices. She is experienced in participant observation, in-depth interviewing, focus groups, visual and place-based methods, participatory methods, co-producing research and knowledge exchange.

Dr Elpida Vounzoulaki
Elpida is an Honorary Visiting Researcher at the Banerjee Lab, supported by the NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement (DSE) Award. Her research focuses on health data science, with particular interests in cardiometabolic complications, women’s health, and real-world epidemiology. Dr Vounzoulaki brings extensive experience in diabetes epidemiology and has contributed to high-impact research using large datasets from the UK and internationally.
PhD Students

Richard is a Clinical Research Training PhD Fellow and Clinical Lecturer in Special Care Dentistry (Barts Charity/Queen Mary University of London). He also works as a consultant in special care dentistry in Surrey. His PhD is in EHR-based oral health research for people with a learning disability and those at risk of infective endocarditis.

Sedigheh Zabihi
Sedi joined the team in October 2025 on a PhD Studentship funded by Alzheimer's Research UK. She will be investigating associations between CVD and dementia to better define, predict and prevent dementia in nationally representative electronic health records (EHR). Sedi has held research positions previously at Queen Mary, University of London and UCL, working on prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
Professional Services
Former Team MembersDr Baneen AlhmoudDr Victoria Allan
Dr Anish Bhuva
Dr Nick Chen
Dr Jennifer DavidsonDr Nushrat Khan
Dr Alexander Ho
Dr Mehrdad Mizani
Dr Yi Mu
Dr Nat Na-Ek
Dr Shoba PoduvalDr Lydia PooleDr Mel RamasawmyDr Varun Sundaram
Dr David Sunkersing
Dr Anish Bhuva
Dr Nick Chen
Dr Jennifer Davidson
Dr David Sunkersing




