I am a reporter at the BBC, covering health, science and general news. My work has appeared on BBC national and world TV, Radio 4, BBC World Service and the BBC news website.
Previously, I worked as a children’s doctor in UK and abroad, including South Africa and India.
In the last few years I have gained a journalism award from the Society for Neuroscience, a Medical Research Council prize, been sent to Turkey’s Nanotechnology Centre through a European Union science and society initiative, to Uganda through a fellowship from the Association of British Science Writers and have been awarded a Wellcome Trust mentorship for emerging talent.
Most recently I was part of the BBC team given the George Foster Peabody award and OJA Knight Foundation award for our coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Dr Smitha Mundasad 
Dear Dr Mundasad,
I read with interest your recent article on the BBC about suspected fake Botox injections.
As you may know, botulism is a notifiable disease here in the UK and is apparently more prevalent than purported to be. There are also different forms of botulism and research shows that it may be signifacantly under reported because it is frequently misdiagnosed or untreated.
I may have a story for you about such a case.
Would you like to know more?