Professor Deborah Symmons (MD FFPH FRCP) - personal details

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.

• American College of Rheumatology
• Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• British Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology
• British Society for Rheumatology
• Royal College of Physicians of London
• British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register Steering Committee
• National Musculoskeletal Specialty Lead for the NHS NIHR
• Member Arthritis Research UK Adult Inflammatory Arthritis Clinical Studies Group

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

• Director – Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit
• Director and Research Lead for Prevention of Co-Morbidity -  NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit
• Professor of Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Epidemiology
• Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist – Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
• Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist – East Cheshire NHS Trust
• NIHR Senior Investigator