Robert John Moots BSc, MBBS, PhD, FRCP

Robert Moots is a Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Liverpool. Qualifying in Medicine with distinction in London, he earned his Ph.D. in immunology at the University of Oxford and subsequently moved to Harvard Medical School to continue his research, before returning to the UK to establish a new academic rheumatology group at Liverpool. Professor Moots’ research focuses on clinical and laboratory aspects of inflammatory rheumatic diseases, from bench to bedside, and a major interest in neutrophils in inflammation. He has published extensively, is active in international societies and committees and each year receives invitations to lecture all around the world. He advises the pharmaceutical industry globally, advises the UK National Institute for Health Care Excellence NICE (including devising national quality standards for RA), is a medical advisor to UK patient groups and has recently ended a successful term as Editor-in-Chief of Rheumatology. Clinical service remains an important part of Professor Moots’ work and, amongst other achievements, his unit has recently been designated UK National Centre for Behçet’s disease.