Professor Francesco Del Galdo

 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