Dr Elizabeth (Beth) M Curtis MA, BMBCh, MRCP (Rheumatology, London), PhD
NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology
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Dr Beth Curtis is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, within the department of Medicine at the University of Southampton.
Dr Beth Curtis undertook her medical training at the University of Oxford, Brasenose College, graduating in 2010. Whilst there, she undertook a BA in Medical Sciences, graduating with a first class honours degree and developing interests in both rheumatology and human development.
She joined a team of musculoskeletal epidemiologists at the MRC LEU as an Academic Foundation Doctor, working on the early-life determinants of osteoporosis. She gained an Academic Clinical Fellowship within the Wessex Rheumatology Specialist Training programme in 2014, and in 2016 was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship. She completed her doctoral studies supervised by Professor Cyrus Cooper and Professor Nick Harvey and epigenetics specialists Professor Karen Lillycrop and Dr Christopher Bell in 2019. Her doctoral research was based on the mechanisms which determine musculoskeletal health in childhood, including epigenetic processes and the action of vitamin D in the Southampton Women’s Survey and the MAVIDOS randomised controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy.
She has contributed to parallel projects on drug safety in various rheumatological conditions, working within a European collaboration, ESCEO, and with the British Society for Rheumatology, in addition to projects on fracture epidemiology, bone and muscle health using data from Clinical Practice Research Datalink and UK Biobank. She is now an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology.
Qualifications:
BA (Hons), Medical Sciences, University of Oxford, 2007
BMBCh, University of Oxford, 2010
MRCP, London, 2013
MRCP Specialty Certificate in Rheumatology, London, 2017
PhD, University of Southampton, 2019
Appointments held:
October 2020- present NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology (ST6), University Hospitals Southampton NHS FT
October 2019 – October 2020 NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology (ST6), Hampshire Hospitals NHS FT
August 2016- October 2019 Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology (ST5), University Hospitals Southampton NHS FT (Out of Programme Research)
August 2016- present Postgraduate Diploma in Epidemiology Candidate, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
Dec 2015 – Aug 2016 Specialist Registrar (ST4) on Wessex Rheumatology rotation, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth
Mar 2015- Dec 2015 NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton
Dec 2014- Feb 2015 Out of programme research project at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Aug 2014 – Dec 2014 Specialist Registrar (ST3) on Wessex Rheumatology rotation, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth
Aug 2012 – Aug 2014 Core Medical Trainee, University Hospitals Southampton NHS FT
Aug 2010- Aug 2012 NIHR Academic Foundation Doctor, University Hospitals Southampton NHS FT