Professor Christopher Edwards BSc, MBBS, MD, FRCP
Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist

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Professor Christopher Edwards is an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
Professor Edwards is a clinical rheumatologist with research interests and expertise in the epidemiology and treatment of inflammatory rheumatic diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.
He attended medical school at King's College London and trained at the Hammersmith and St George's Hospitals in London. He was a registrar for Professor Graham Hughes at the St Thomas' Hospital lupus unit and then undertook a period of research as a lecturer at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Imperial College under the supervision of Professor Ravinder Maini. He moved to Southampton in 2001 after working for a year as a rheumatology consultant at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore.
He is a member of international committees working to produce guidelines for the best management of rheumatic diseases, leading a systematic review of guidelines for the use of radiology in the diagnosis and management of rheumatoid arthritis for the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR). With expertise in the planning and delivery of trials in this area, including early stage trials, Professor Edwards has developed strong local and international partnerships with clinical and academic colleagues, centred on his role as clinical lead of the Southampton Musculoskeletal Research Unit.
Qualifications
BSc, 1st class (hons) Immunology & Basic Medical Sciences, King’s College, University of London (1987)
MBBS, with distinction in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, King’s College, University of London (1990)
MRCP, Royal College of Physicians, London (1993)
USMLE, parts I and II (USA licensing exams) (1994)
CCST, Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine (2000)
MD, Imperial College, University of London (2001)
FRCP, Royal College of Physicians, London (2005)
Appointments held
Honorary Chair of Clinical Rheumatology , Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
Consultant Rheumatologist
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University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Associate Director
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Southampton NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Southampton Centre For Biomedical Research
Clinical Lead
, Southampton Musculoskeletal Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Research Fellow
, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford