Expert speakers announced for Case-based Conference 2023

02 August 2023

We're excited to introduce our expert speakers for Case-based Conference 2023. Find out more about who we've got on the programme in this series of mini-profiles. 

Dr Natasha Jordan - Consultant Rheumatologist

Dr Natasha Jordan is a Consultant Rheumatologist. Her major clinical and research interests are autoimmune connective tissue diseases and systemic vasculitis. Dr Jordan studied Medicine at University College Dublin followed by higher specialist training in General Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. She subsequently worked for 5 years at the Louise Coote Lupus Unit, St Thomas’ Hospital, London. She has been the recipient of an Arthritis Research UK Fellowship and the Graham Hughes Clinical Research Fellowship allowing her to undertake research in the areas of SLE and vasculitis. She obtained her PhD from King’s College London investigating the genetics of lupus nephritis.

Dr Jonathan Rees - Consultant in Rheumatology and Sports Medicine

Dr Rees' amb

ition is to help every patient reach maximum potential, whatever pain they are in, injury or illness they may have. Dr Rees has been a Consultant since 2004. Initially he worked at Headley Court the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. Since 2013 he has been at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. Dr Rees has worked at every level of Sports Medicine from novice to professional. He was Physician to the Great Britain 2008 Paralympic Team in Beijing and to the 2012 London Olympics.

Prof Michael Stone - BA, MBBS, DM, FRCP

Prof Michael Stone is a Consultant Physician in Cardiff and Lead Clinician for adult Metabolic Bone Disease. He heads a long-established Fracture Liaison Service, four Bone Clinics each week and the Denosumab Self Injection Program. He is also Director of the Bone Research Unit at University Hospital Llandough with research interests that include: the bisphosphonate acute phase response, bone loss in patients with respiratory disease, the use of high dose vitamin D in the frail elderly and the use of AI for vertebral fractures. He is Chairman of the Wales Osteoporosis Advisory Group, a member of the UK National Osteoporosis Guidelines Group, Clinical Committee of the Royal Osteoporosis Society and Royal College of Physicians Fracture Liaison Service Database Advisory Group. He is Visiting Professor to the School of Health at the University of South Wales.

Prof Christopher Edwards - Consultant Rheumatologist & Honorary Chair of Clinical Rheumatology

Professor Edwards is a Consultant Rheumatologist and Co-Director of the NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility within the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, having previously worked as a consultant at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore. Professor Edwards trained with Professor Maini at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology during the early years of anti-TNF trials and with Professor Graham Hughes at the St Thomas’ Hospital Lupus Clinic in London. Professor Edwards is Clinical Director of the Southampton Musculoskeletal Research Unit, a recognised EULAR centre of excellence and is a past Chair of the EULAR Education Committee.

Dr Catherine Orteu - Consultant Dermatologist, MB BS, BSc, MD, FRCP

Dr Orteu was educated at the Lyçée Français de Londres and trained in Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, qualifying in 1987. She undertook dermatology training at the Royal Free and Royal London Hospitals (CCST 1999) and received her MD in immunodermatology awarded 1999 after 2 years as a Jules Thorne Fellow. UK trainee representative to the British Association of Dermatologists 1997-1999. She was awarded Geoffrey Dowling Fellowship for a year as a clinical research fellow in connective tissue disease and Immunodermatology at the University of British Columbia (2000). She is currently a consultant dermatologist at the Royal Free since January 2001. Her main areas of interest are in the field of complex medical dermatology: connective tissue diseases (CTDs) particularly localised scleroderma, “pseudoscleroderma” and overlap CTDs, and lysosomal storage disorders, in particular fabry disease. She undertakes a weekly connective tissue disease skin clinic and a twice monthly connective issue disease clinic jointly with rheumatology colleagues in which she sees secondary and tertiary referrals with complex CTDs. Dr Orteu lectures on localised scleroderma and scleroderma-like diseases as well as on the cutaneous aspects of fabry disease to physicians, rheumatologists and dermatologists in the UK and abroad. Dr Orteu has published principally on the immunological mechanisms involved in the generation of chronic cutaneous inflammation and auto-immunity, localized scleroderma and scleroderma-like diseases, and on the cutaneous manifestations of fabry disease.