Clinical expertise
Dr Neeti Ghali sees patients with suspicion of a rare hereditary connective tissue disorder. She specialises in aortovascular conditions, for example, patients who have had an aneurysm and/or dissection at a young age, without obvious risk factors or a cause. Patients may also be considered if they are concerned about a strong family history of aneurysms.
She works in the highly specialised Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) service assessing patients and families with suspected rare types of EDS including vascular EDS. She carries out a comprehensive clinical evaluation and genetic investigations using a panel-based approach and provides genetic counselling for patients with complex genetic test results and proven rare connective tissue/aortovascular diagnoses such as vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan syndrome, Loeys-Dietz syndrome and non-syndromic aortopathies. She has published extensively in this area.
As a certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician, she is also able to support patients in their lifestyle choices in the context of their chronic disease. This may be an aortovascular condition or another lifelong genetic disorder. Lifestyle medicine offers a holistic approach to patient care, focusing on broader factors such as physical activity, sleep, nutrition, for example, that impact on individuals’ health and wellbeing, providing a more personalised and preventative medical approach to care.
She is able to support patients in their lifestyle choices in the context of their chronic disease. Lifestyle medicine offers a holistic approach to patient care, focusing on broader factors that impact on individuals’ health and wellbeing, providing a more personalised and preventative medical approach to care
Locations
Our specialist provides care at these locations:
Biography
Dr Neeti Ghali graduated from the University of Manchester and went on to train in Paediatrics followed by Clinical Genetics at London teaching hospitals (GSTT, GOSH) as well as completing a research degree in genetics at the University of London.
She has been working as a Consultant in Clinical Genetics since 2011 at London North West University Hospitals (LNWUH) and as well as inherited connective tissue disorders, she has experience in seeing a breadth of patients and families with rare paediatric conditions, cancer and cardiac syndromes as well as adult-onset conditions such as neurological/neurodegenerative conditions. She was co-clinical lead for her department at LNWUH from 2019 to 2023. She has been working as an honorary consultant at Royal Brompton & Harefield hospitals since 2018 to further pursue her interest in inherited aortovascular conditions. Working in the National Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) service, she is also a member of the International Consortium on EDS and on the Medical Advisory Board for Annabelle’s Challenge, a UK charity for vascular EDS.
She has attained her core accreditation in Lifestyle Medicine in 2024 and has expertise in the impact of lifestyle choices on health. She contributes to undergraduate medical teaching on Lifestyle Medicine and Health Coaching at Imperial College London. She supports patients to prevent or manage certain risks or complications in the context of their underlying genetic condition. She advocates for empowering patients to understand their own health and long-term condition and facilitates the formation of their own management plan linked to their lifestyle.
Research
Dr Neeti Ghali has recruited a large number of patients to the Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) study and the 100K genomes project and as a result, published a number of articles on rare paediatric genetic disorders.
Her research interests mainly lie in connective tissue disorders such as Ehlers Danlos syndromes and aortovascular disease. She is co-investigator of the Natural History Exploration or rare EDS types (NEEDS) study established in 2022. She has published many works in this field including first and last author publications.
Publications
Dr Neeti Ghali has been involved in over 50 publications, which can be viewed here.
