In this week's episode, Julia is joined by Professor Tonia Vincent from the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, who has been a consultant rheumatologist for the past 15 years. Tonia talks about the academia in rheumatology, how COVID-19 has impacted consultants and the clinical work they do, and what she envisions the future and next developments in osteoarthritis might be.
Tonia Vincent studied medicine at University College London, qualifying in 1993. She trained as a junior doctor in London, later specialising in Rheumatology. In 1998 she took time out to do a PhD at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology under Professor Jeremy Saklatvala. She continued at the Kennedy Institute as a Wellcome Trust clinician scientist and then as an Arthritis Research UK Senior Fellow. In 2012 the Kennedy Institute moved to the University of Oxford and she was appointed Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology. She directs the Versus Arthritis-funded Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis. Her research interests include the molecular pathways that explain how cartilage responds to injury and their role in osteoarthritis. She continues to be clinically active, running both hand osteoarthritis clinics and a multidisciplinary Marfan Syndrome clinic. She is married to a musician and has one daughter, five stepchildren and nine step-grandchildren!
On the rADAr with Julia Gray is a new, fortnightly podcast series produced with Andersen Press, to celebrate the publication of Julia's new novel, I, Ada: Ada Lovelace: Rebel. Genius. Visionary, a witty and absorbing portrayal of the tumultuous teenage years of Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician who is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer.
Now available in paperback. Head to https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/athomeyalc-2020-ya-samplers/ to read the first two chapters.
Produced by Jonathon Moore and Julia Gray
Mixed and edited by Jonathon Moore
Music by Second Person
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