Emeritus Professor
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Caroline Gordon is Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Birmingham and an honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. Since retiring in 2019, she remains involved in research based at the University of Birmingham. She has a longstanding interest in improving the assessment, treatment and outcome of lupus, particularly ethnic differences, and disease risk and outcome of pregnancies in rheumatic diseases.
She established the Birmingham lupus cohort in 1989 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and City Hospital, Birmingham. She has been involved in the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention funded epidemiological studies of lupus in the USA since 2004. Much of her work has focussed on disease assessment for outcome studies and clinical trials, particularly the BILAG disease activity index and the assessment of quality of life in lupus, using the SF-36 and the LupusQoL surveys.
She led the initiative producing EULAR points to consider for conducting clinical trials in SLE and was an investigator and steering committee member for the MRC Strategic Medicine project “Masterplans” and for the Versus Arthritis funded Beat-lupus trial.
She led the development of BSR guidelines for the management of SLE and was involved in the BSR guidelines for drugs in pregnancy in the rheumatic diseases. She is currently involved in mixed methods studies related to diagnostic, symptom and support experiences of lupus patients and related systemic autoimmune diseases.
Friday, November 8, 2024
1:35 PM – 2:50 PM EST
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