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.

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).

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.

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.