Dr Harsha Gunawardena (MBChB MRCP UK PhD), is a Consultant Rheumatologist and Divisional Clinical Director Neurosciences and Musculoskeletal sciences Division at North Bristol NHS Trust. He co-runs a dedicated CTD vasculitis service alongside the Bristol-Interstitial Lung Disease regional service.

He has a clinical academic interest in all aspects of CTD and vasculitis, in particular myositis, CTD-ILD and vasculitis. His PhD was on myositis syndromes and this work was the first to describe several novel autoantibody markers. He has published on myositis overlap syndromes, autoantibodies, CTD-ILD reviews and guidelines. He is a lead member of UK Myositis network, Myositis UK patient charity scientific committee, and on the British Society of Rheumatology Myositis and ILD Guidelines Group.