Meet the team
Research team at UEA
Professor Alexander Macgregor
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, Norwich Medical School, University of East AngliaEmail: a.macgregor@uea.ac.uk
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at UEA. He is a clinical rheumatologist with a research career that has focused on the epidemiology of chronic rheumatic diseases both from the perspective of aetiology and health services research. Chief Investigator for the Norfolk Arthritis Register. Close involvement with a number of national data projects, including the National Joint Register, CPRD, ELSA and UK Biobank.
Alexander Macgregor — University of East Anglia (uea.ac.uk)
Dr Max Yates
Consultant Clinical Associate ProfessorEmail: m.yates@uea.ac.uk
Co-investigator for the Norfolk Arthritis Register
Dr Jack Dainty
Senior Research Associate in EpidemiologyEmail: Jack.dainty@uea.ac.uk
Research statistician, data analyst and programmer with expertise in managing large datasets including UK Biobank, NJR and HES. He has specific expertise in nutritional epidemiology and bioinformatics.
Jackie Chipping
Clinical ManagerEmail: jacqueline.chipping@uea.ac.uk
Jacqueline Chipping — University of East Anglia (uea.ac.uk)
Karen Durrant
Project Co-ordinatorEmail: Karen.durrant@uea.ac.uk
Research team at the University of Manchester
Dr Suzanne Verstappen
Reader in Musculoskeletal EpidemiologyEmail: Suzanne.verstappen@manchester.ac.uk
A Reader in Musculoskeletal Epidemiology in the Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, School of Biological Sciences. Suzanne is an Epidemiologist with a main research interest in the longterm outcomes such as worker productivity loss, functional disability and co-morbidities and its predictors in patients with adult and juvenile onset inflammatory arthritis.
Suzan is also the Director of Social Responsibility in the School of Biological Sciences and organiser of the in-house Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Basic Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics course.
Dr Jennifer Humphreys
Presidential Senior Clinical Fellowemail: Jenny.humphreys@manchester.ac.uk
Dr John Bowes
Senior LecturerResearch interests
Genetics and genomics: studies on the genetic contribution to a range of rheumatological disorders but with a specific focus on inflammatory joint disease.