Professor Patrick Kiely

Professor Kiely specialises in all aspects of adult rheumatology. He holds specialist clinics at St George's in rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory muscle disease (myositis), primary systemic vasculitis, interstitial lung disease associated with connective tissue diseases and the only UK clinic dedicated to patients with haemochromatosis arthropathy.

Prof. Kiely qualified from the University of London in 1988, and has been a consultant at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 1999. He was a joint author of the NICE clinical guidelines (1999) and Quality Standards (2013) for rheumatoid arthritis.

He is a national opinion leader on management of rheumatoid arthriits and lectures nationally and internationally on optimising outcomes to therapies for inflammatory arthritis.

He is a member of the EULAR task force producing guidelines for therapeutic monitoring of biopharmaceuticals, the BSR task force for guidelines for management of myositis, and leads the EULAR task force to create classification criteria for haemochromatosis arthropathy.

His research has resulted in over 100 papers published on aspects of rheumatoid arthritis outcomes optimisation, myositis and haemochromatosis arthropathy.

Member: British Society of Rheumatology

Chairman: South West Thames Regional Rheumatology Group

Medical Advisor: National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, Haemochromatosis UK

Executive member: Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Network

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Management of all aspects of adult Rheumatology

Optimising best outcomes to therapies for inflammatory arthritis