Georgios Kitas RHEUMATOLOGIST Director, Rheumatology Department

Education & Academic Qualifications

Qualifications (Subject, Class, University and Date)

Medical Registration:

1985: Prefecture of Ioannina, Greece (Reg. No. KY 13157)
1986: General Medical Council, U.K. (Reg. No. 3143519)
1996: General Medical Council Specialist Register (Rheumatology)
2013: Greek Specialist Register (Rheumatology), Public Health Directorate, Prefec ture of Attika, Greece
2011: Athens Medical Association (Rheumatologist) – (Reg. No. 071762)

Academic Affiliations:

2007-present: Professor of Clinical Rheumatology, Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, UK
2007-present: Professor of Behavioural Rheumatology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
2006-present: Professor of Rheumatology, Musculoskeletal Health and Exercise, Research Institute in Healthcare Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, UK
2011: Visiting Professor of Rheumatology, University of Athens, Greece
2013: “Boland” Professor of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic Medical School, Roches-ter, USA

Education and Training posts:

01/02/94-21/12/94: Senior Registrar/Honorary Lecturer in Rheumatology West Midlands Regional Health Authority
01/02/93-31/01/94: Research Fellow, Clinical Research Registrar Department of Rheumatology, University of Birmingham
01/08/89-31/01/93: SHO/Deputy Clinical Registrar rotations Dudley Road and Dudley Group of Hospitals, West Mid-lands
01/02/86-31/07/89: Research Fellow, Clinical Research Registrar Department of Rheumatology, University of Birmingham
01/01/84-31/12/85: PRHO/SHO rotations Various Hospitals, Athens, Greece
01/06/83-31/08/83: Visiting Research Fellow National Institutes of Health, NIOR, Bethesda, Maryland

1989: “T cell functional defects in Rheumatoid Arthritis” PhD, University of Birmingham UK

Editorial board member:

Associate editor:

Editor:

AD-HOC REVIEWER for peer-reviewed international journals

1995-2012: Consultant Rheumatologist, Dudley Group NHS FT, UK
1999-2012: Head, Dept. of Rheumatology, Dudley Group NHS FT
1999-2014: R&D Director, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust
2005-2011: Clinical Director, Ambulatory Medicine Division, Dudley Group of Hospitals
2006-2011: Deputy Associate Medical Director, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust
2015-present: Head of R&D Academic Affairs, Dudley Group Of Hospitals NHS FT
2011-present: Consultant Rheumatologist and Director, Centre for the Investigation and Manage-ment of Rheumatic Diseases, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, GR

Education Experience:

Clinical Interests:

Investigation and management of all rheumatological conditions including: inflammatory conditions (such as rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathies), systemic connective tissue diseases (e.g. systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjogren’s syndrome, vasculitis), degenerative arthritis, soft tissue rheumatism, metabolic bone diseases (particularly osteoporosis)
Rehabilitation for chronic rheumatic diseases and chronic pain syndromes
Lifestyle modification for chronic rheumatic diseases and associated comorbidities
Patient education and counselling on self-management resources

Special Interests:

Diagnosis, treatment and comorbidity of chronic inflammatory arthritis (special in-terest in cardiovascular and psychosocial comorbidity) – Systemic necrotising vascu-litis

Research Interest:

Director of RA comorbidity research group – supervised >15 MD/PhD degrees; Convenor of BSR cardiovascular comorbidity special interest group – Member of EULAR task force for cardiovascular risk management in rheumatic diseases; Chief investigator of TRACE RA, the largest academically-led multicentre RA RCT in the world; Chief Investigator or Principal Investigator in multiple commercial and non-commercial clinical trials; 340 peer reviewed publications listed on PubMed; >11000 citations; current h factor 57; >£15M research grants