infection and inflammation

Name: Professor Kevin A Davies MA MD FRCP

Academic position: Foundation Professor of Medicine; Head of the Division of Clinical Medicine

Research: Immunopathology and clinical management of systemic lupus erythematosus and related autoimmune diseases

Contact details:

Brighton and Sussex Medical School
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9PX
UK

Fax: +44 (0)1273 877576

PA to Chair of Anatomy and Chair of Medicine:
Lisa Costick, e-mail:

Medical Education Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1977 - 1980)
St. Thomas's Hospital (1980 - 1983)
BA (Cantab) 1980
MB BS (London) 1983 Distinction
MA (Cantab) 1984
MRCP (UK) 1986
MD (London) 1994
FRCP 1997

Appointments:

First consultant appointment 1993: Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital as ARC Senior Research Fellow

More recently:

Imperial College/Hammersmith Hospital, Reader in Rheumatology and Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician
Chief of Service for General Internal Medicine (1997/8)
Clinical Director of Medicine 1998 - 2002

Teaching focus:

All aspects of clinical medicine – specialist interests include inflammatory rheumatic disorders, SLE and the pathological basis of autoimmunity.

"The development of an innovative undergraduate medical curriculum has been challenging but hugely exciting. I am thrilled to be part of BSMS and feel that we have a unique opportunity to create a new generation of ‘pluripotential’ doctors who not only have highly developed clinical skills, but also an enthusiasm for understanding the science which underpins their day-to-day clinical practice"

Other information:

Clinical examiner for the Royal College of Physicians
Trustee of the Arthritis Research Campaign (2003-)
Member of the ARC Programme Grant Committee
UK co-ordinator: European SHO exchange programme
External Undergraduate Examiner - Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford and Malta
PhD examiner – Universities of Oxford, Nottingham, and Lund