Consultants

Dr Joel David qualified in 1981 from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, with a MB and BCh (cum lauda). He achieved Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) (UK) in 1984 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1996. His postgraduate medical experience was gained in London as a Registrar in Medicine at both the Royal Free and Hammersmith hospitals.

Dr David's experience in research was as an ARC fellow in the Acute Phase Protein Laboratory at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School.

Senior Registrar positions were held at Charing Cross Hospital, Northwick Park Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

In 1992, Dr Joel David took up the position of Consultant Rheumatologist and Physician at the Royal Berkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Reading, where he remained until 2000 when he transferred to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre as Consultant Rheumatologist.

Joel David is also an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians.

Professor Arden trained at St Thomas' Hospital, London, where he also completed four years of research into the genetics of osteoporosis. During this time, he gained an MSc in Epidemiology and an MD.

In 1998 he spent six months as Visiting Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at the University of San Francisco.

In February 2000 Professor Arden commenced his post as Consultant Rheumatologist at Southampton General Hospital, and Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology at the University of Southampton, where he developed a large research programme into osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.

He took up the post of Honorary Professor of Rheumatology at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in September 2008.

Professor Laura Coates is an Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist who moved to Oxford in 2017.

Prior to this, she completed her Rheumatology training and PhD at the University of Leeds. Laura is a specialist in psoriatic arthritis who does clinical research including trials of new treatments for arthritis.

Her research is clinical and focuses on psoriatic arthritis and the spondyloarthritides including early diagnosis of PsA, development of PsA specific and validated outcome measures, optimal treatment pathways and strategies in PsA.

At Oxford University Hospitals she works in the early arthritis and psoriatic arthritis clinics providing care to patients in Oxfordshire and beyond.

Laura Coates - Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

Prof Kassim Javaid has been the Norman Collisson Senior Research Fellow, Lecturer in Metabolic Bone Disease, Nuffield Centre of Orthopaedics, University of Oxford since 2008.

Previously he has been Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK (2006-8); ARC Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco (2006-7); Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology, Wessex Deanery (2003-6) and ARC Clinical Fellow, University of Southampton (2000-2003).

Kassim Javaid - Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

Professor Luqmani qualified in 1982 from the University of Nottingham. He achieved Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) (UK) in 1985 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) of Edinburgh and London.

His postgraduate medical experience was gained in North Staffordshire as an SHO and then Registrar in Medicine before moving to Southampton as a research fellow and then to Birmingham as a senior registrar/lecturer.

In 1994, he took up the position of Consultant Rheumatologist at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, where he remained until 2005 when he transferred to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre as a Consultant Rheumatologist / Senior Lecturer. He became a Professor of Rheumatology in Oxford in 2011. He has been the Clinical Lead in Rheumatology since 2020.

His research has focused on systemic vasculitis since his doctoral thesis, part of which included an assessment of patients with acute vasculitis. His research activities included the development of the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score [BVAS] (Luqmani et al QJM. 1994 87:671-8) and the Vasculitis Damage Index [VDI] (Exley et al Arthritis Rheum. 1997 40:371-80) and later the BVAS for Wegener's Granulomatosis [BVAS-WG] (Stone et al Arthritis Rheum. 2001 44:912-20).

These indices have been instrumental in defining response to therapy in many clinical trials in systemic vasculitis, informing the development of EULAR management guidelines in vasculitis.

He led a multinational project to define classification criteria in systemic vasculitis, which have all been published. He led a large multicentre study to examine the role of ultrasound compared to biopsy in diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (Luqmani et al Health Technol Assess. 2016 20:1-238).

He continues to be involved in a number of current research projects to investigate the role of therapy and outcome in different forms of vasculitis including giant cell arteritis.

For information on Professor Luqmani's clinical trials, research studies and publications please visit the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) website:

Raashid Luqmani - Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

Dr Newton's specialist interests are specifically related to sport and exercise related problems in the adult and paediatric populations. Dr Newton runs a NHS multidisciplinary sports medicine service at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (OxSPORT). She also works at the English Institute of Sport.

Dr Swales started her medical training at University College London in 1991. Following an intercalated BSc and PhD in Neurosciences, she moved to pursue her clinical training in Oxford, and qualified in 2000. She completed her postgraduate training in Nottingham before returning to Oxford to take up a Clinical Lectureship in Rheumatology in 2003.

She has research interests in inflammatory arthritis, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, and medical education. She was appointed as Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in 2012.

Dr Swales' clinical work is based in the Early Arthritis Service at the NOC, which offers rapid assessment and treatment of patients with suspected inflammatory arthritis.

Dr Swales is a Fellow in Medicine at St Hilda's College, Associate Director for the Clinical Medical School and an Education Associate for the General Medical Council.

Professor Taylor studied pre-clinical medical sciences at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge and his first degree was in Physiology.

He subsequently studied clinical medicine at the University of Oxford and was awarded a PhD degree from the University of London for studies on pathogenesis of arthritis. In the summer of 2015 he was appointed medical director of the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society. He is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.

Professor Taylor has specialist clinical interests in rheumatoid and other inflammatory arthritis, especially early inflammatory arthritis.

Peter Taylor - Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences