Professor Elaine Dennison MB BChir Cantab, MA, MSc, FRCP, PhD
Professor of Musculoskeletal Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology
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Professor Elaine Dennison is Professor of Musculoskeletal Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology within Medicine at the University of Southampton. Having worked as a Principal Investigator of the Hertfordshire Cohort Study for many years, her research interest centres around musculoskeletal aging. Based at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, she is particularly interested in how events early in life interact with adult lifestyle factors to determine how we age. Professor Dennison is author of over 220 journal articles on this subject.
As a clinical academic with a keen interest in clinical academic training, Professor Dennison was appointed as Director of the Southampton Clinical Academic Training Scheme in 2018; formerly she led the Southampton Academic Foundation training programme and has served as Training Programme Director for Wessex Rheumatology for 5 years. She sits on the rheumatology SAC as the Academic representative.
In the last 5 years she has served as Chair of the National Osteoporosis Society Grants Committee, and as a member of the National Osteoporosis Society Clinical and Scientific Committee. She sits on the International Osteoporosis Foundation Committee of the Scientific Advisers, and chairs the British Society of Rheumatology Biologics Register Steering Committee. She is a clinical member of the Bone Research Society Committee (appointed 2018). Professor Dennison sits on many editorial boards, including Osteoporosis International and Journal of Developmental Health and Adult Disease.
Qualifications
MB BChir, Cambridge University (1990)
MSc, London University (1995)
PhD, Southampton University (2000)
Appointments held
Reader & Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology, Southampton
Specialist Registrar & Senior Research Fellow, Southampton
Wellcome Training Fellow in Epidemiology, Southampton
Registrar in Medicine for the Elderly, Bournemouth
General Medical Rotation, Southampton