Ghaniah is a clinician-educator and researcher at Aston Medical School with strategic leadership responsibility for simulation-based and technology-enhanced medical education. Her work has shaped the design, delivery, and evaluation of immersive learning across undergraduate medical curricula, with particular expertise in large-scale virtual reality (VR) simulation, structured debriefing, and faculty development.

She provides institutional and regional leadership in simulation, having served as Chair of the West Midlands Simulation Network, supporting cross-institutional collaboration, faculty development, and the sharing of best practice across the region. She is currently Co-Chair of the Simulation Special Interest Group (SIG) within the College of Health and Life Sciences (HLS) at Aston University, contributing to strategic alignment, quality enhancement, and interdisciplinary collaboration in simulation-based education.

Ghaniah’s educational scholarship is grounded in evidence-based simulation pedagogy, human factors, and non-technical skills frameworks, and focuses on how immersive environments surface clinical reasoning, decision-making, and professional behaviours. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, she has led the development and evaluation of generative AI-supported communication skills tools, contributing to scalable approaches to digital innovation in medical education.

Alongside this, Ghaniah has an active clinical practice as a Consultant Neurologist at University Hospitals Birmingham, with sub-specialist interest in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). She was awarded a PhD in MS research in 2015, establishing expertise in neuroimmunology and biomarkers of disease activity and progression. Her current scholarly interests adopt a systems-level perspective, exploring how interactions across immune and neural networks contribute to cognition, fatigue, and functional outcomes in MS.

A defining feature of her work is the integration of complexity and cognition across domains — applying systems thinking to both biological disease mechanisms and learning in complex clinical environments. Her portfolio demonstrates sustained academic leadership, interdisciplinary collaboration, and a clear trajectory towards national impact in simulation-based medical education and MS research.