Professor Francesco Del Galdo

Consultant rheumatologist & scleroderma and connective tissue disease specialist in Leeds

MD PhD

GMC: 6152586

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Professor Francesco Del Galdo is a leading consultant rheumatologist & scleroderma and connective tissue disease specialist based in Leeds. He specialises in Raynaud's disease, scleroderma and dermatomyositis alongside Sjogren's syndrome, lupus, vasculitis and other inflammatory conditions. He privately practises at Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital and his NHS base is Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.

Professor Del Galdo has an impressive educational achievements. He graduated with honours in Medicine in Italy where he also was awarded a national award for Best Young Researcher of the Year, 2001. He then went on to specialise in immunology in 2003, and then moved to the USA to undertake a PhD and post-doctoral fellowship in Rheumatology. Here he specialised in the diagnosis and management of connective tissue diseases, particularly scleroderma.

After moving to Leeds in 2009, Professor Del Galdo founded and led the NIHR Scleroderma Research Programme at the city's Biomedical Research Centre, alongside the Raynaud's and Scleroderma Clinical Excellence Centre for Yorkshire and the Humber.

Professor Del Galdo is highly respected as a clinical researcher and academic. He has been teaching medical doctors in the UK and Europe for the past 10 years, and is an professor at the University of Leeds. Previously, he was an associate professor at the university and at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. He also runs a prestigious research programme at the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine which is focussed on personalised medicine.

Professor Del Galdo's research has been published in more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and he has presented at various national and international meetings. He is a member of the British Society of Rheumatology.

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Credentials

GMC: ‍6152586

Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Consultant rheumatologist, Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital
• Consultant rheumatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

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Sub-specialties

• Raynaud's disease
• Osteoarthritis
• Neuropathic pain
• Vasculitis

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Positions in public associations

• President, EUSTAR - WSF/EULAR Scleroderma Trial and Research Consortium (June 2022 - present)
• Head, Scleroderma Programme, NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit (August 2009 - present)

Teaching posts

• Professor, Experimental Medicine, University of Leeds (2021 - present)
• Associate Professor of Rheumatology, University of Leeds
• Associate Professor, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA (October 2004 - July 2009)

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Education

• Post Doctoral Fellow, Scleroderma, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA (2004 - 2006)
• PhD, Immunology of Connective Tissues Diseases, The University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples
• State DMS/MD, The University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples (1999)

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Publications and conferences

• John AJUK, Galdo FD, Gush R, Worsley PR, ‘An evaluation of mechanical and biophysical skin parameters at different body locations’, Skin Research and Technology, 29.2 (2023)
• Griffiths-Jones DJ, Garcia YS, Ryder WD, Pauling JD, Hall F, Lanyon P, Bhat S, Douglas K, Gunawardena H, Akil M, Anderson M, Griffiths B, Del Galdo F, Youssef H, Madhok R, Arthurs B, Buch M, Fligelstone K, Zubair M, Mason JC, Denton CP, Herrick AL, ‘A Phase II randomised controlled trial of oral prednisolone in early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (PRedSS)’, Rheumatology
• Dumitru RB, Bissell L, Erhayiem B, Fent G, Kidambi A, Abignano G, Greenwood JP, Biglands J, Del Galdo F, Plein S, Buch MH, ‘Subclinical Systemic Sclerosis Primary Heart Involvement by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Shows No Significant Interval Change’, ACR Open Rheumatology
• Bosello SL, Vital EM, Del Galdo F, ‘More to B: the growing evidence to inform targeting B cells in scleroderma’, Rheumatology
• Kreuter M, Del Galdo F, Miede C, Khanna D, Wuyts WA, Hummers LK, Alves M, Schoof N, Stock C, Allanore Y, ‘Impact of lung function decline on time to hospitalisation events in systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD): a joint model analysis’, Arthritis Research & Therapy, 24.1 (2022)

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Prizes and awards

• National award, Best Young Researcher of the Year, 2001

Professional membership

• British Society of Rheumatology

Languages spoken

English
Italian
Spanish