Ratish Basu Roy FRCP FRCP Edin FRCS graduated in medicine in 1961 from NRS Medical College, University of Calcutta,  and came to the UK for postgraduate training and education.  After a brief spell in India, he returned to the UK to work in the NHS because of its excellent and universal health care provision.   He became consultant in genito-urinary medicine in  Bournemouth/Poole and Southampton University Group of Hospitals.  He was the designated physician for HIV/AIDS for Dorset.  Ratish served either as a member or chairman of numerous regional and national speciality committees of the Royal College of Physicians, British Medical Association etc and is a GMC (General Medical Council) performance assessor. Much respected by colleagues he became Hon.Treasurer and then President of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases in 1995-1997.  He has published numerous papers in professional journals and was the editor - Opinion : GUM/AIDS and contributed chapters to books.

Ratish is now enjoying a well-earned retirement which he is pleased is giving him more time to be with his family. However, he remains an Honorary Consultant to Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch NHS Trust and travels overseas on behalf of British Council, UNAIDS etc as a visiting consultant adviser and teacher in STIs and HIV medicine.