Dr Joel David

Professional statement

Dr Joel David is a distinguished senior consultant rheumatologist based in Oxford. He specialises in treating rheumatoid, psoriatic, and juvenile arthritis and is also renowned for his expertise in ankylosing spondylitis, lupus and gout, among other conditions. He sees private patients at his own practice, Joel David Rheumatology.

Dr David qualified in medicine from University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1981. After an internship in Johannesburg, he relocated to London to take up a general medicine position at the Royal Free Hospital before undertaking postgraduate training in rheumatology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital. He was appointed as a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1984 and later a fellow in 1996 (FRCP). He undertook senior registrar positions at Charing Cross, Northwick Park and Great Ormond Street Hospitals and was appointed as a consultant rheumatologist in 1992 at the Royal Berkshire Hospitals NHS Trust in Reading. He currently holds the position of senior consultant rheumatologist and clinical lead at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and sees private patients at his own practice in Oxford.

Dr David is a leading name in the field of rheumatology and was responsible for setting up OxPARC (Oxford Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology Centre) and oxsport@noc, a state-of-the-art sport and exercise medicine department in Oxfordshire. He worked in conjunction with experts in the fields of ophthalmology and endocrinology to set up a national referral centre for autoimmune thyroid eye disease and also helps run multi-disciplinary joint clinics in complex auto-immune disease, collaborating closely with specialists in haematology, immunology and respiratory medicine.

Dr David has held a number of senior positions throughout his career and currently serves as regional specialty advisor for rheumatology and rheumatology governance lead for the Oxford region and is a former clinical director and clinical lead in medicine. His extensive academic publications are published in peer-reviewed journals and he also plays a key role in education for medical trainees, being a senior lecturer at University of Oxford Medical School and an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians.