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Professor Paul Emery, MA, MD, FRCP

Professor Emery is currently Arthritis Research Campaign (arc) Professor of Rheumatology and Head of the Academic Section of Musculoskeletal Disease at the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, and is Clinical Director (Rheumatology) at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Professor Emery graduated in medicine from the University of Cambridge and completed specialist accreditation in internal medicine and rheumatology. He completed his thesis on the immunopathology of RA at Guy’s Hospital, London, and then served as Head of Rheumatology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. He was Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology at the University of Birmingham from 1987 to 1995, before taking up his present appointment.

Professor Emery has served as a member of several education committees, and he is on the editorial boards of several journals. He is a recipient of the biennial Roche Award for clinical rheumatology, the Rheumatology Hospital Doctor of the Year award 1999 and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) prize for rheumatology research 2002.

He has a special interest in the factors leading to persistent inflammation, and is a founder member of the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Study (ERAS), the Leeds Early Arthritis Project (LEAP), the Yorkshire Early Arthritis Register (YEAR) and the Leeds Musculoskeletal Imaging Group.