Nigel K. Arden MBBS, MRCP, MSc, MD, CCST, FRCP

Professor Nigel Arden in Rheumatic Diseases within Medicine at the University of Southampton. Professor Arden trained at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, where he also completed four years of research into the genetics of osteoporosis. During this time, he gained an MSc in Epidemiology and an MD. He moved to the South Coast in 1996 and in 1998 spent six months as Visiting Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at the University of San Francisco. In 2000 he commenced his post as Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at Southampton University NHS Trust. In 2008, he became a Professor in Rheumatic Diseases at Southampton University and also commenced an appointment with the University of Oxford to develop a joint research department between the two universities of Oxford and Southampton.

He is based jointly at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Centre, Southampton, and the Botnar Research Centre, Oxford; where he continues his research into osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. His clinical interests include all aspects of rheumatic diseases; however, he has special interests in osteoporosis, with particular emphasis on bone disease in patients with cystic fibrosis and inflammatory bowel disease. He additionally has a strong interest in the management of patients with osteoarthritis.