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Amali Lokugamage
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist/ Honorary Senior Lecturer University College London
Her NHS Consultant appointment is at the Whittington Hospital. Her undergraduate medical qualifications are from St Andrews and Manchester Universities, UK. An MSc Epidemiology was obtained at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an MD was awarded from University College London. Her clinical training was undertaken at London teaching Hospitals.
Special Interests
These include medical education and research in the following fields Misoprostol for labour and delivery; International Women’s Health; Reproductive and Life-course Epidemiology from a psychoneuroimmunological perspective.
She is currently applying “integrated medicine” principles to her clinical practice in women’s health at the Whittington Hospital. This means that she both advises and treats women with either conventional medicine or complementary therapies as she is not only a specialist on Obstetrics & Gynaecology but also a trained Homeopath and Acupuncturist. She has achieved good results with the patients that have been referred to her as tertiary referrals (with symptoms that have not responded to conventional management) from other consultant colleagues. Although this is a new service in the Whittington, it is already successful and hence demand is growing very quickly. She hopes to develop this service in the future and is presently piloting a three month Maternity Acupuncture service in collaboration with practitioners at Asante Academy of Chinese Medicine, Middlesex University.
Amali is also one of the directors of a new charity called the Na Tree Foundation and spent a month doing tsunami relief work in Sri Lanka in January 2005. This small charity works within a "mind-body" frame work to promote localised direct relief work. It aims to facilitate primary health care and nutritional advice that is relevant to both the developed and developing world. The Na Tree Foundation would also like to help low cost, eco friendly housing projects in developing countries, whose design incorporate sacred geometry principles. Other important areas that the charity aims to foster are educational links between children from developed and developing nations to further global awareness and to encourage research into "mind-body" medicine.
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