Emma is Professor of Clinical Musculoskeletal Epidemiology and an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at North Bristol NHS Trust. She is Deputy Head of Bristol Medical School, and Head of Translational Health Research within the School. Emma leads two programmes of research (osteoporotic vertebral fractures and scoliosis), and is Co-Lead for the Staff Training and Development theme in the Bristol Research Centre. She supervises pre-doctoral and doctoral research students, and enjoys mentoring at all levels. As a Consultant Rheumatologist she leads a large outpatient general rheumatology service with a special interest in osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease, and teaches clinical rheumatology to undergraduate medical students, qualified doctors and allied healthcare professionals, nationally and internationally.

Emma qualified in Medicine from St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, in 1996 after completing an intercalated BSc in 1993. Following physician training in Norwich she moved to Bristol and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2003. She completed a one-year MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2004, a Certificate in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals in 2006 and a PhD at the University of Bristol in 2007. Emma was then awarded an Arthritis Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship at the University of Bristol in 2007, using this as a springboard for her successful research programme into the identification and management of older people with osteoporotic vertebral fractures.