David G.I. Scott

David G I Scott was appointed Consultant Rheumatologist at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in February 1988.  He retired from his NHS clinical work in 2011 and is currently Hon Consultant. He was Director of Research and Development for the Trust from 1996 to May 2006 and was made Honorary Professor to the UEA in 1998.  He held the post of Divisional Clinical Director for Medicine in the Trust from May 2006 to July 2007 and was appointed Director of the Norfolk and Suffolk CLRN in August 2007. 

David graduated from Bristol in 1973 and undertook junior doctor training in Southampton, Bristol, Bath and Birmingham, completing an MD on systemic vasculitis in 1981.

He was President of the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) from 2002 to 2004 and Chair of the Joint Specialty Committee for Rheumatology, linking the BSR with the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) 2002-2006.  He was elected to Council of the RCP in 2004 and significantly contributed to the RCP working party on Medical Professionalism.  He was RCP Patient Involvement Officer from 2007-2011.

Previous activities include Medical Secretary to the Arthritis Research Campaign (arc) and until recently the arc Scientific Co-ordinating Committee.  He is chair of the arc Research and Academic Capacity Committee (2008– present) and is Medical Adviser to two charities; NRAS (now Chief Medical Adviser) and the Raynaud’s and Scleroderma Association.

He has a long-standing interest in systemic vasculitis, and has written over 250 reviews/editorials and papers in total, including clinical aspects, epidemiology and outcome, and lectures nationally and internationally on this subject. Other research interests include epidemiology of rheumatoid arthritis (Norfolk Arthritis Register) and clinical, health economic and psychosocial aspects of inflammatory arthritis including their relevance to the introduction of anti-TNF alpha therapy.