Dr Perla Eleftheriou is a Consultant Haematologist at University College Hospital in London since 2015. Her area of expertise is Red Cell Disorders, which include haemoglobinopathies and rare anaemias. She is intensively involved in the outpatient and inpatient care of mainly adults but also paediatric patients with red cell disorders.
Dr Eleftheriou worked as a research fellow at UCLH/UCL for 3 years (2004-2007), studying the effect and tolerability of different iron chelators in adult and paediatric patients with haemoglobinopathies and other rare transfusion dependent anaemias and transfusional iron overload. She developed a special interest in the effect of iron chelators on the myocardial iron removal. Her research was presented as posters and oral presentations at various international conferences. In 2006 she was rewarded with a scholarship for young researchers in Haemoglobinopathies by the European School of Genetics.
Alongside with her clinical commitments, she teaches Haematology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, UCL and the University of Westminster. She is a Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at UCL and Investigator ( Co-Investigator and Principal Investigator ) in numerous international clinical trials in the field of Red Cell Disorders and UK Chief Investigator in clinical trials in Thalassaemia. She is Clinical/Scientific adviser to Thalassaemia International Federation ( TIF) and co-author and editor of clinical national and international guidelines and books as well as coordinator of web seminars and workshops. She is a coordinator of the unique in its style International Fellowship ( Renzo Galanello) for oversees haematologists, hosted at UCLH.
Dr Eleftheriou’s is Clinical governance Lead of Red Cell Haematology Department at UCLH and an active member of the national data working group for red cell patients with Covid-19 in the UK and presented at national and international webinars in this field. She is a member of the National Haemoglobinopathy MDT.
You can learn more about Dr Eleftheriou at her personal wesbite: https://www.eleftheriou-