Prof Deborah Symmons MD FFPH FRCP

Overview

• Research Lead for Prevention of Co-Morbidity - NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit
• Programme lead for the Norfolk Arthritis Register - Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology
• Professor of Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Epidemiology

Biography

I completed my undergraduate medical training at the University of Birmingham Medical School. My pre-registration and general medical training were undertaken in the teaching hospitals of Birmingham. I trained in rheumatology at the Hammersmith Hospital, London; Guys Hospital, London and the teaching hospitals of Birmingham. My name was placed on the specialist register for rheumatology in 1986. I trained in Epidemiology at the University of Birmingham and at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I joined the Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit in 1989. I was promoted to the Chair of Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Epidemiology in 2001.

Qualifications

• MB ChB (Birm) 1977
• MD (Birm) 1987
• FRCP 1994
• FFPH 2006 

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

• American College of Rheumatology
• Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• British Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology
• British Society for Rheumatology (Distinguished member)
• Royal College of Physicians of London
• EULAR Honorary Member