Abhishek Abhishek is a clinical Associate Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Nottingham, UK, and honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. He qualified in 1999 from Seth GS Medical College in Mumbai, India, and completed residency in internal medicine from NSCB Medical College in Jabalpur, India. After initial medical training posts in Rhyl, Cardiff and Liverpool, he joined the rheumatology and general medicine specialist registrar training programme in Nottingham. Here he developed a clinical and research interest in crystal arthritis. He completed a PhD on calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) in 2012.
After completing his clinical and research training in January 2013, he took up an NHS consultant post at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK, where he worked until August 2014. He moved back to the University of Nottingham in September 2014 to take up a clinical academic appointment and pursue his research interests in the field of crystal arthritis.
His other research interests include epidemiology of autoimmune rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, clinical trials, and clinical effectiveness studies using big data and evidence-based medicine. He has published over 60 articles and contributed over 15 book chapters in the field of rheumatic diseases. He is currently the co-principal investigator of American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism CPPD classification criteria project, and co-chair of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) CPPD working group.