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Paul Emery (rheumatologist)

Paul Emery CBE FLSW FRCP FRCPE FMedSci is a British rheumatologist, researcher, and academic. Emery has been the Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Leeds since 1995,[i] Head of its Rheumatology Department from 1995 to 2008. He is Head of the Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal Disease and Lead Clinician of Rheumatology at the Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, and was the Director of the NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre from 2009 to 2022. He is known for introducing early intervention in inflammatory arthritis. Emery played a critical role in bringing sensitive imaging (MRI) into rheumatology practice. In 2012, Emery was awarded the Carol Nachman Prize for Rheumatology,[2] and as of 2024, he has published over 1660 peer-reviewed articles with over 160,000 citations.[3][4][5][6] Emery was the most cited European Rheumatologist in 2010, and was selected in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation's "list of highly influential biomedical researchers, 1996–2011."[7]

Professor
Paul Emery
CBE FLSW FRCP FRCPE FMedSci
NationalityUnited Kingdom
EducationCardiff High School[e], Churchill College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Rheumatologist, researcher, academic
Years active1977–present[1]
Medical career
Profession
  • Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology (Leeds), Head of Rheumatology Department (Leeds)
  • 1995-2017 Director (NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre) 2008-2022
  • Head of Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal Disease and Lead Clinician of Rheumatology (Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust) 1994-2017
[1]
Institutions
  • Guy’s Hospital/Brompton Hospital (1977-1980)
  • Guy’s/Brighton/Lewisham 1980-1985
  • Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Australia (1985-1987)[a]
  • Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia (1985-1987)
  • University of Birmingham (1988-1995)[b]
  • University of Leeds (1995-present)[c]
  • Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust (1997-2022)[d][1]
Awards
  • Roche Biennial Award for Clinical Rheumatology (1991)
  • Hospital Doctor of the Year Rheumatology (1999)
  • EULAR Prize for outstanding contribution to Rheumatology (2002)
  • NIHR Senior Investigator NMR (2009)
  • Carol Nachman Prize for Rheumatology (2012)[f]
  • The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds (2015)
  • Highly Cited Researcher in Clinical Medicine (2015)[g]
  • Highly Cited Researcher (2017)[h]
  • OBE (2018)
  • Master of the American College of Rheumatology (2018)
  • Meritorious Service Award from EULAR (2020)
Academic work
Main interestsRheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), psoriatic disease, connective tissue diseases, prevention of autoimmune diseases, factors leading to persistent inflammation, Scleroderma, Sjogren Syndrome, immunopathogenesis, immunotherapy, disease prevention, ultrasound, MRI imaging

Early life and education edit

Emery attended Cardiff High School from 1953 to 1971 (Head Boy) and graduated from Churchill College, Cambridge in 1974. He received his clinical training at Guy's Hospital and at Royal Brompton Hospital was accredited in rheumatology and general internal medicine in 1984.[4]

Career edit

Emery worked at Guys Hospital from 1977 to 1985 and as House Officer to Senior Registrar and at Royal Brompton Hospital.

In 1985 Emery became Head of Rheumatology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, and a consultant at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

In 1988 Emery became a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.

Emery has been the Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Leeds since 1995.

Emery was inaugural President of the International extremity MRI society (ISEMIR).[5]

Emery has been a senior investigator at the National Institute for Health and Care Research since 2008.[5]

From 2009 to 2011 Emery was President of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR).

In 2010 he ranked first as the most cited European Rheumatologist with 16,952 citations, according to Lab Times.[8][9]

In 2013 Boyack et al. published "A list of highly influential biomedical researchers, 1996–2011." in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation. They selected Emery among 532 authors who belonged to the 400 researchers with highest total citation count (25,142 or more citations). As of the time of publishing the list, Emery had 657 papers published with 30,096 citations.[7]

Emery was inaugural chair of FOREUM Executive, the Foundation for Research in Rheumatology, from 2013 to 2019.[10]

In 2015, Emery was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[11]

In 2017 Emery ranked first as the most cited European Rheumatologist with 293 articles and 20,223 citations, according to a Lab Times articles by Kathleen Gransalke. Gransalke wrote:

The most-cited papers in rheumatology research, mentioned earlier, already give us a clue about our highly-cited rheumatologists’ favourite research subject. That’s right: rheumatoid arthritis. Not less than 24 of our top 30 researchers work exclusively or primarily on this disease. The ranking’s number one, Paul Emery, is no exception. In his research, he wants to elucidate RA’s immunopathogenesis and immunotherapy. In addition, he studies spondyloarthritis, another rheumatoid inflammatory disease, which can cause the fusion of spinal vertebrae, leading to stiffness and inflexibility.[12][13]

Emery was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2018[14] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours[15][16][17][18] by the Queen for services to rheumatology.[19]

In 2021 Emery became a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW).[20]

Bibliography edit

Books edit

  • Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Overview (2008) ISBN 9789814206464
  • Pocket Reference to Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (2011) ISBN 9781908517227
  • Atlas of Rheumatoid Arthritis (2015) ISBN 9781907673917

Select publications edit

  • Gough, Andrew KS, P. Emery, R. L. Holder, J. Lilley, and S. Eyre. "Generalised bone loss in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis." The Lancet 344, no. 8914 (1994): 23-27. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(94)91049-9
  • McGonagle, Dennis, Wayne Gibbon, and Paul Emery. "Classification of inflammatory arthritis by enthesitis." The Lancet 352, no. 9134 (1998): 1137-1140. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(97)12004-9
  • McGonagle, Dennis, Wayne Gibbon, Philip O'Connor, Michael Green, Colin Pease, John Ridgway, and Paul Emery. "An anatomical explanation for good-prognosis rheumatoid arthritis." The Lancet 353, no. 9147 (1999): 123-124. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)76160-2
  • Paul Emery, Henning Zeidler, Tore K. Kvien, Mario Guslandi, Raphael Naudin, Helen Stead, Kenneth M. Verburg, Peter C. Isakson, Richard C. Hubbard, and G. Steven Geis. "Celecoxib versus diclofenac in long-term management of rheumatoid arthritis: randomised double-blind comparison." The Lancet 354, no. 9196 (1999): 2106-2111. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(99)02332-6
  • Edwards, Jonathan CW, Leszek Szczepański, Jacek Szechiński, Anna Filipowicz-Sosnowska, Paul Emery, David R. Close, Randall M. Stevens, and Tim Shaw. "Efficacy of B-cell–targeted therapy with rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis." New England Journal of Medicine 350, no. 25 (2004): 2572–2581. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa032534
  • Emery, Paul, Ferdinand C. Breedveld, Stephen Hall, Patrick Durez, David J. Chang, Deborah Robertson, Amitabh Singh, Ronald D. Pedersen, Andrew S. Koenig, and Bruce Freundlich. "Comparison of methotrexate monotherapy with a combination of methotrexate and etanercept in active, early, moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (COMET): a randomised, double-blind, parallel treatment trial." The Lancet 372, no. 9636 (2008): 375-382. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61000-4
  • Emery, Paul, Mohammed Hammoudeh, Oliver FitzGerald, Bernard Combe, Emilio Martin-Mola, Maya H. Buch, Marek Krogulec et al. "Sustained remission with etanercept tapering in early rheumatoid arthritis." New England Journal of Medicine 371, no. 19 (2014): 1781-1792. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1316133
  • Tuttle, Jay, Edit Drescher, Jesus Abraham Simón-Campos, Paul Emery, Maria Greenwald, Alan Kivitz, Hyungmin Rha, Pia Yachi, Christina Kiley, and Ajay Nirula. "A Phase 2 Trial of Peresolimab for Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis." New England Journal of Medicine 388, no. 20 (2023): 1853-1862. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2209856
  • Duquenne, Laurence, Elizabeth M. Hensor, Michelle Wilson, Leticia Garcia-Montoya, Jacqueline L. Nam, Jianhua Wu, Kate Harnden, Anioke IC, Di Matteo A, Chowdhury R, Sidhu N, Ponchel F, Mankia K, Emery P. "Predicting Inflammatory Arthritis in At-Risk Persons: Development of Scores for Risk Stratification." Annals of Internal Medicine 176, no. 8 (2023): 1027-1036. doi:10.7326/M23-0272
  • Di Matteo A, Bathon Joan A., Emery P.  Rheumatoid arthritis. The Lancet (2023) doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01525-8

References edit

  1. ^ a b c https://www.wiesbaden.de/medien-zentral/dok/leben/stadtportrait/CV_Paul_Emery.PDF
  2. ^ Quinn, Richard (2012-08-08). "Educational Leader Honored with Top Rheumatology Award".
  3. ^ "Rheumatoid arthritis and switching TNFis: an interview with Professor Paul Emery, University of Leeds". News-Medical.net. 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  4. ^ a b "Paul Emery". The Lancet. 358 (9280). 11 August 2001. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)05618-5.
  5. ^ a b c "Paul Emery". rheumatology.medicinematters.com. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  6. ^ "Professor Paul Emery OBE FLSW MA MD FRCP FRCPE FMedSci MACR". Leeds Biomedical Research Centre. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  7. ^ a b Boyack, Kevin W.; Klavans, Richard; Sorensen, Aaron A.; Ioannidis, John P.A. (December 2013). "A list of highly influential biomedical researchers, 1996–2011". European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 43 (12): 1339–1365. doi:10.1111/eci.12171. ISSN 0014-2972.
  8. ^ "Publication Analysis 1997–2008: Rheumatology" (PDF). Lab Times. p. 52. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 July 2017.
  9. ^ Gardner, Joshua (2011-03-17). "Prof Emery most highly cited European rheumatologist". Leeds Biomedical Research Centre. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  10. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pzxyWMs7tc
  11. ^ "Professor Paul Emery | The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  12. ^ Gransalke, Kathleen. "Rheumatology Publication Analysis 2007-2013". Lab Times. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. The most-cited papers in rheumatology research, mentioned earlier, already give us a clue about our highly-cited rheumatologists' favourite research subject. That's right: rheumatoid arthritis. Not less than 24 of our top 30 researchers work exclusively or primarily on this disease. The ranking's number one, Paul Emery, is no exception. In his research, he wants to elucidate RA's immunopathogenesis and immunotherapy. In addition, he studies spondyloarthritis, another rheumatoid inflammatory disease, which can cause the fusion of spinal vertebrae, leading to stiffness and inflexibility.
  13. ^ "Rheumatology Publication Analysis 2007–2013: The Most Cited Authors". Lab Times. January 2017. Archived from the original on 23 July 2017.
  14. ^ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5b43959fed915d39d27ad56c/BirthdayHonoursList2018CSVfinal__1_.csv
  15. ^ "Colleagues celebrate New Year Honours". forstaff.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  16. ^ "Dr Benjamin Ellis and Professor Paul Emery named in the 2024 New Years Honours list". Versus Arthritis. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  17. ^ "King's New Year Honours for RCP fellows". RCP London. 2024-01-04. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  18. ^ "Fellows recognised in New Year Honours 2024". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  19. ^ "No. 64269". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N9.
  20. ^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Paul Emery". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 2023-10-07.

Notes edit

  1. ^ Head of Rheumatology Unit
  2. ^ Senior Lecturer Rheumatology
  3. ^ Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology
  4. ^ Lead Clinician Rheumatology (1997-2005), Clinical Director Rheumatology (2000- 2018), Director of the Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Centre 2008-2022
  5. ^ He was a Head boy at Cardiff High School
  6. ^ "In honour of his outstanding innovative research work in the field of rheumatology"
  7. ^ Under Clinical Medicine. Highly Cited Researcher according to Thompson Reuters.
  8. ^ According to Web of Science
  9. ^ formerly "Arthritis Research Campaign Professor"


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