Biography: Fiona is a University Research Lecturer at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS at the University of Oxford and has also been an honorary consultant rheumatologist at the Nuffield Orthopedic Centre, Oxford since 2013. She leads the Clinical Translation theme within the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Osteoarthritis (OA) Pathogenesis, and is an investigator in the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Sports, Exercise and Osteoarthritis. She has a PhD in cartilage biochemistry from Imperial College London, and completed specialist training in rheumatology in West London. Her B.Med.Sci and MBBS were from University of Newcastle-Upon Tyne.

Fiona’s research interest is in the prediction of risk and outcomes in OA and the development of new treatments for the condition, particularly in knee and hand OA. Her laboratory focus is in the measurement and validation of experimental biomarkers: protein and non-protein, and their utility in association with clinical risk factors within cohorts.

Fiona is the recently appointed Musculoskeletal Disorders Research Advisory Group lead for Arthritis Research UK, and also a clinical spokeswoman for the charity. She sits on a number of steering committees which focus on the treatment of OA including the James Lind Alliance for Early Osteoarthritis. Fiona won an OARSI Young Investigator award in 2014 and the British Society for Rheumatology's Michael Mason Prize in 2016 for her work on biomarkers of joint injury.