Michael Doherty
Professor Doherty was a scholar of St John’s College Cambridge (obtaining a double 1st in medical sciences and anthropology and archaeology) and completed his undergraduate training at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was an ARC Research fellow in Bristol and Bath and was awarded the Raymond Horton Smith prize (Cambridge University) for his thesis on pyrophosphate arthropathy.
He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Nottingham in 1985 and currently is Professor of Rheumatology and Head of Academic Rheumatology, University of Nottingham.
His principal research interests are:
- epidemiological, genetic and clinical aspects of osteoarthritis
- community-based clinical trials
- crystal-associated arthropathy, and
- evidence based practice and guideline development
He is a member of the Curriculum Policy Group in Nottingham University Medical School and was awarded a Lord Dearing prize for teaching and learning in 2001. He has written extensively on musculoskeletal clinical examination skills and developed the “GALS” musculoskeletal screen. He was elected Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2007
He is a past editor of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (1992-99) and was the BSR Heberden Roundsman in 2000. He has co-chaired EULAR Task Forces for evidence-based recommendations for management and diagnosis of osteoarthritis, gout and calcium pyrophosphate arthritis, and has been involved as a clinical expert in NICE appraisals relating to osteoarthritis and gout.
