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Dr Peter Merry qualified at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School University of London in 1981.

Specialist Training in both Rheumatology and General Medicine was as

i) SHO at St Thomas' Hospital London, ii) Registrar at St George's

Hospital London, iii) Senior Registrar at St Thomas', St Mary's, and

Charing Cross Hospitals London, 1989 – 1991. Research training was as

an Arthritis Research Campaign Research Fellow at The Bone and Joint

Research Unit attached to The Royal London Hospital. Dr Merry's

research was investigating the role of "Free Radicals" in inflammatory

arthritis. An MD was awarded in 1990 by London University entitled

"Hypoxic-repefusion injury in the inflamed human joint."

Dr Merry was appointed Consultant Rheumatologist at The Norfolk and

Norwich University Hospital in 1991. He was Clinical Director in

Rheumatology from 1995 – 2008. He has established special interest

clinics in back pain and connective tissue disease, having worked and

performed research at the lupus unit at St Thomas' Hospital London. His

main specialist clinical interest is backpain/sciatica. He has been innovative in

setting up a back pain service in Norwich that has included epidurals,

discolysis with chymopapain, and intradiscal electrothermal therapy

(IDET).

Dr Merry has extensive experience in the management of Rheumatoid

Arthritis and other inflammatory arthritis, with particular expertise in

anti –TNF therapies/Biologioc therapies, with the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital having vast experience in these therapies.

Dr Merry has developed a particular clinical interest in gout.

Dr Merry has developed an extensive medico-legal practice that includes personal injury and clinical negligence claims.

Dr Merry has an extenisve research history with a 100 + publications

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• Sacral/Caudal epidurals for sciatica
• Joint Injection
• Medicolegal

Sciatica.

Axial Spondarthritis.

Ankylosing spondylitis

Connective tissue diseases

Psoriatic arthritis