Ms KELSEY JORDAN

Dr Kelsey Jordan qualified from Leeds University in 1993. She subsequently trained in multiple medical specialities to give her a rounded experience before settling on Rheumatology as a long term speciality interest and completed her Speciality training in Wessex in 2005 before taking up her Consultant post in Brighton. She has 30 years of medical experience and is the lead for Education of Rheumatology trainees locally and provides educational supervision and teaching and training for undergraduate medical trainees at Brighton Sussex Medical School (BSMS).

During her training and consultant years, Dr Jordan has been involved in research and published in peer reviewed journals and contributed to General Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and Rheumatology Textbooks in osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Inflammatory arthritis and gout. She has been an invited speaker on multiple occasions at the British Society of Rheumatology Annual Congress, Royal Society of Medicine Updates and Regional meetings nationally.  

Most recently, she was author and international committee member of the European Society (EULAR) Guidelines on Management of Knee Osteoarthritis and national committee member and author of the British Society of Rheumatology Guidelines on Management of Gout and the National Consultant Rheumatologist Representative for the NICE Guidelines on Management of Gout published in 2022. She has collaborated and published with Brighton and Sussex Medical School research scientists looking at autoinflammatory diseases and nationally with liver and skin specialists looking at the safety of methotrexate in inflammatory diseases (it is safe!).

Dr Jordan is a Trustee Director of the charity UK Gout Society (unpaid role).