Navneet Kumar Ahluwalia, b 1955.

Ahluwalia gained his medical qualifications in Delhi where he held a number of resident appointments before coming to England in 1981. Ahluwalia came to Manchester in 1987 as senior registrar at MRI and from 1991 was clinical lecturer and honorary senior registrar at Hope Hospital. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1997 and was a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology. Ahluwalia was later appointed consultant physician and gastroenterologist to Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport.