Ian Bruce

Professor Ian Bruce, MD, FRCP

Ian Bruce is Professor of Rheumatology at the Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester. He is co-Chair of the Inflammatory Musculoskeletal Conditions Division, and lead for the Cardiovascular Research group. He qualified in Medicine from Queen's University Belfast in 1988 and gained his MRCP in 1991. He trained in medicine and rheumatology in Northern Ireland and completed his MD Thesis on the pathogenesis of systemic vasculitis in 1995. He was the Geoff Carr Lupus Fellow at the University of Toronto, before moving to Manchester in 1998 as an NHS consultant, transferring to the University in 2003.

Professor Bruce is on the Editorial Board of Rheumatology. He is a member of the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics and the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group, and participates in a number of national and international multicentre studies that are seeking to refine our understanding of SLE. He leads the Cardiovascular Group within the Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit and is joint Principal Investigator on the Norfolk Arthritis Registry (NOAR), Cardiovascular Substudy. He is involved in the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium and the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Registry Control Consortium.

Professor Bruce’s major research focus is on the association between inflammatory rheumatic diseases and premature atherosclerosis/coronary heart disease. In particular, his focus is on systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. He has published 100 papers in his field.