After completing medical training at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, I specialized in adult rheumatology at the Wessex Deanery. During that time, I completed a PhD examining the maternal determinants of intra-uterine bone growth as part of an ARC Clinical Fellowship at the University of Southampton followed by a travelling fellowship and worked with the OA group in UCSF to study the role of vitamin D and bone in lower limb OA. Since my return to the UK, I have been appointed as Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist and am the Associate Professor in Metabolic Bone disease at the University of Oxford. My research interests include the role of epidemiology of musculoskeletal diseases focusing in secondary fracture prevention and rare bone diseases (www.rudystudy.org).