Consultant Rheumatologists

Professor David GI Scott, MD, FRCP - NRAS Chief Medical Advisor

Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust
Professor David GI Scott, NRAS Chief Medical Advors
Professor David Scott was appointed Consultant Rheumatologist at the Norfolk and Norwich (University) Hospital in February 1988. He was Director of Research and Development for the Trust from 1996 to May 2006 and was made Honorary Professor to the University of East Anglia (UEA) in 1998.More...



Dr Andrew Bamji, MB, BS(Hons), FRCP

Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup
Andrew Bamji, NRAS Medical Advisor
Dr Andrew Bamji is a Consultant in Rheumatology and Rehabilitation at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent. He was an undergraduate at the Middlesex Hospital, London and qualified in 1973. More...




Dr Deborah Bax, MBChB, MD, FRCP

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Deborah Bax, Consultant Rheumatologist
Deborah has been a Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology in Sheffield since 1989. She undertook research investigating the effect of sulfasalazine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis which was the basis of her MD. More...



Dr Robin Butler, MD, FRCP

Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry
Dr Robin Butler, NRAS Medical Advisor
Born in London in 1949 Dr Butler was educated at Christ's Hospital and studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1972. He developed his interest in rheumatology while undertaking laboratory research in immunology and started his rheumatology training in 1978,  More...



Professor Kuntal Chakravarty, FRCP, FACP (USA), DGM (London)

Queens Hospital, Romford

Prof Kuntal Chakravarty
Kuntal was appointed as a Consultant Rheumatologist after finishing his training in Cambridge, Norwich and Oxford region in 1994. He is an Ex-Council member of the British Society for Rheumatology and Vice-Chairman of the Standard Audit and Guideline Working Group of the BSR. More...



Dr Christopher Deighton, MBBS, BMedSci, MD, FRCP

Derbyshire Royal Infirmary
Dr Christopher Deighton, NRAS Medical Advisor
Christopher trained in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he was an Arthritis Research Campaign Junior Research Fellow, gaining an MD thesis on the Genetic Epidemiology of Rheumatoid Arthritis. More...





Dr Marwan Bukhari M.B,B.S, MSc, PhD, FRCP

Royal Lancaster Infirmary 
Dr Marwan Bukhari
Marwan Bukhari is a Consultant Rheumatologist at the University Hospitals of Morecambe bay NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. More...






Dr Christopher Kelsey, MSc, MB, FRCP

Queen's Hospital, Romford
Dr Christopher Kelsey
Dr Chris Kelsey has been a Consultant for over 15 years at Barking, Havering & Redbridge University NHS Trust based at Queen’s Hospital in Romford, Essex. This is one of the largest Trusts in the UK serving a population of 700,000. More...




Dr Patrick Kiely, MBBS, BSc, PhD, FRCP

St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Patrick Kiely
Dr Patrick Kiely qualified in medicine from the Middlesex and University College Hospital Medical School (University of London) in 1988. He was awarded a first class Honours Intercalated BSc in Genetics and Psychology in 1985, More...



 

Professor Iain McInnes, MD, PhD

University of Glasgow

Professor Iain McInnesProfessor McInness studied medicine in the University of Glasgow (honours 1989).He trained in PhD and post doctoral studies via fellowships from The Welcome Trust, ARC(UK) and NIH Fogarty Fellowship Programme in NIH in Glasgow and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. More...






Dr Gulam Patel, MA FRCP

Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust, Surrey

Dr Patel went to medical school at Cambridge University followed byclinical training at Middlesex & University College Hospitals. He subsequently spent his time training at a variety of London Hospitals culminating in Rheumatology as a Senior Registrar in the South Thamesregion. More...


Dr Philip Platt, MD, FRCP

Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Dr Philip Platt
Born in Manchester 1953. Dr Platt was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School Stratford upon Avon and studied medicine at University of Birmingham Medical School qualifying in 1976. His general medical training was in Kidderminster and Stoke on Trent. More...




Dr Richard Reece, MB BCH, MRCP, FRCP

Darlington Memorial Hospital, County Durham

After completing his training in Cardiff, Richard undertook training in General Internal Medicine in Northampton and Exeter before embarking on Rheumatology Specialist training in Birmingham from 1993. In 1995 he transferred his research in arthroscopy and synovial biopsies to Leeds under the supervision of Professor Paul Emery. More...


Dr. Stefan Siebert, MBBCh, MRCP, PhD

Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust, Bridgend
Stefan Siebert
Dr Siebert graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg, South Africa and then worked in Groote Schuur Hospital,Cape Town. He came to Wales in 1996 and trained as a Rheumatologist in Cardiff. More...




Professor Peter C. Taylor MA, BM, BCh, PhD, FRCP

Norman Collisson Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford

Professor Peter Taylor is an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist working at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust and is a Professor of Experimental Rheumatology. He leads the clinical trials group at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, Imperial College, London and is Dean of the Charing Cross Campus. More...


Dr. Richard Watts, MA, DM, FRCP

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

Dr Richard A Watts was born and educated in North London. He qualified from Oxford University Medical School and did his early rheumatology training and research at the Middlesex Hospital with Professor David Isenberg. More...


Dr David Marshall

Inverclyde Royal Hospital

Dr Marshall graduated from Glasgow University in 1984.  In 1989 he became a lecturer in Rheumatology at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary Centre More...

Dr Asad Zoma

Hairmyres Hospital


Dr Alaa Hassan

Cumberland Infirmary


Dr Yasmeen Ahmad


Dr Richard Haigh

Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal Devon & Exeter Foundation Trust



Dr Lesley Kay MA (Oxon) BMBCh FRCP

The Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospital Foundation Trust

Dr Kay has been a Consultant Rheumatologist at Newcastle hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2000.  She trained in Oxford as a medical student and most of her training subsequently has been in the North East of England More...







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