Dr Patrick Kiely

MBBS, BSc, PhD, FRCP

St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust

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, and shared the Middlesex Hospital Medical School BSc Prize for the most outstanding student.

Postgraduate medical training was spent at The London Chest Hospital, The University of Southampton Hospitals, The Royal Surrey County Hospital, St George’s Hospital and St Helier and Kingston Hospitals. In September 1993 he was awarded a Medical Research Council Training Fellowship to undertake basic scientific research into “Cellular mechanisms in mercuric chloride-induced autoimmunity”, under the supervision of Professor D.B.G. Oliveira in the University of Cambridge. He attained a Ph.D. degree from this work in 1996.

Since joining St George’s as consultant rheumatologist he has developed research interests in the fields of rheumatoid arthritis (therapies and ultrasound imaging), Vitamin D insufficiency and idiopathic inflammatory myositis. He runs special interest clinics for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis and myositis.