Professional background

Ananth Shankar is a consultant paediatric and adolescent oncologist at UCLH. He is the clinical lead for paediatric & adolescent neuro-oncology and his special interests include, functional imaging in gliomas and nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin Lymphoma [NLPHL]. He is a honorary associate professor in paediatrics at the ICH/UCL and a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK.

Teaching and Training
Ananth Shankar is an undergraduate examiner with University College London and is also a clinical and educational supervisor of paediatric oncology trainees as well as an assessor on ARCP panels for paediatric trainees.

Research interests

Nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma, functional imaging – PET - in adolescent neuro-oncology

Languages spoken

Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil

Publications

Treating papillary and follicular thyroid cancer in children and young people: Single UK-center experience between 2003 and 2018. de Jong MC, Gaze MN, Szychot E, Rozalén García V, Brain C, Dattani M, Spoudeas H, Hindmarsh P, Abdel-Aziz TE, Bomanji J, Shankar A, Stoneham S, Morley S, Beale T, Jawad S, Otero S, Proctor I, Amin S, Butler G, Hewitt RJ, Kurzawinski TR. J Pediatr Surg. 2020 Aug 4:S0022-3468(20)30538-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2020.07.034. Online ahead of print.

Diffusion-weighted imaging characteristics of H3 K27M histone-mutant diffuse midline glioma in teenagers and adults. Micallef, C, Okuchi S Brandner S, Kumar A Kshitij, Mankad, K Wastling, S Mancini, Laura, Jager R; Shankar A, Thust, S. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery [2020] In Press

3. 68Ga-DOTATATE and 123I-mIBG as imaging biomarkers of disease localisation in metastatic neuroblastoma: implications for molecular radiotherapy". J Gains, J Bomanji, L Bassoni, A Shankar, M Gaze. Nucl Med Commun. [2020] Aug 10. doi:10.1097/MNM.0000000000001265. Online ahead of print

Predicting Outcome in Childhood Diffuse Midline Gliomas Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Based Texture Analysis. Elwira Szychot, Adam Youssef, Balaji Ganeshan, Raymond Endozo, Harpreet Hyare,Jenny Gains,Kshitij Mankad, Ananth Shankar J Neuroradiol 2020 Mar 14;doi: 10.1016/j.neurad.2020.02.005. Online ahead of print.

Preferred place of death in paediatric, teenage and young adult haemato-oncology patients: a retrospective review. Stilwell P, Bhatt A, Mehta K, Carter B, Bisset M, Soanes L, Shankar A. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2020 Mar 24:bmjspcare-2019-002005.

The Use of Multiparametric 18F-fluoro-L-3,4-dihydroxy-phenylalanine PET/MRI in Post-Therapy Assessment of Patients With Gliomas. Francesco Fraioli, Ananth Shankar, Harpreet Hyare, Valentina Ferrazzoli, Vincenzo Militano, George Samandouras, Khsitij Mankad, Francesca Solda, Fulvio Zaccagna, Elnur Mehdi, Maria Lyasheva, Jamshed Bomanji, Fuad Novruzov Nucl Med Commun 2020 Jun;41(6):517-525.

Whole-body MRI for staging and interim response monitoring in paediatric and adolescent Hodgkin's lymphoma: a comparison with multi-modality reference standard including (18)F-FDG-PET-CT. Latifoltojar A, Punwani S, Lopes A, Humphries PD, Klusmann M, Menezes LJ, Daw S, Shankar A, Neriman D, Fitzke H, Clifton-Hadley L, Smith P, Taylor SA. Eur Radiol. 2019 Jan;29(1):202-212. doi: 10.1007/s00330-018-5445-8. Epub 2018 Jun 15

Cabergoline-related impulse control disorder in an adolescent with a giant prolactinoma. Bulwer C, Conn R, Shankar A, Ferrau F, Kapur S, Ederies A, Korbonits M, Spoudeas HA. Clinical Endocrinology [Oxf] 2017,86: 862-64

“Variant histology nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma – a route to transformation?” Elwira Szychot, Ananth Shankar, Aiman Haider, Alan Ramsay. British Journal of Haematology 2017, doi: 10.1111/bjh.14607.

Advanced stage nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma in children and adolescents: clinical characteristics and treatment outcome A G Shankar, G Roques, A A Kirkwood, A Lambilliotte, K Freund, T Leblanc, J Hayward, S Abbou, A D Ramsay8, C Schmitt, S Gorde-Grosjean, H Pacquement, S Haouy, S Boudjemaa, N Aladjidi, G W Hall, J Landman-Parker, British Journal of Haematology, 2017, 177: 106-115

Relapsed or poorly responsive nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma in children and adolescents – a report from the United Kingdom’s Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Study Group

A G Shankar, A A Kirkwood, S Depani, E Bianchi, J Hayward, A D Ramsay, G W Hall, British Journal of Haematology, 2016, 173: 421-31

Childhood and Adolescent nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma - A review of clinical outcome based on the histological variants. A G Shankar, A A Kirkwood, G W Hall, J Hayward, P O’ Hare, A D Ramsay. British Journal of Haematology, 2015, 171: 254-262