Curriculum Vitae

Dr Anthony Hammond. MD FRCP Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist

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C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E Name: Anthony Hammond MD FRCP Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist Date of birth: 22 March 1956 Medical education: Edinburgh University Medical School (1973 – 1980) Qualifications: BSc Honours (Physiology) 2.1 August 1977

MB ChB August 1980 MRCP (UK) February 1984 MD (Edin) October 1991 FRCP (Lon) June 1996

GMC Number: 2551168 Accreditation/CCST: General Internal Medicine and Rheumatology March 1991 Present appointment: Private Practice: The Kent Institute of Medicine and Surgery KIMS Hospital, Maidstone, Kent London Medical, Marylebone, High Street, London NHS: Locum Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist Kings College Hospital London Previous Appointment: Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 1992 – 2010 Contacts: Personal E-mail: t.h@online.rednet.co.uk Mobile: 07976 244769 Website: www.dr-hammond.com

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CV Synopsis

• Tony Hammond graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 1980 and trained in Medicine and Rheumatology in Bristol, Bath and London including the National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bart’s Hospital, London and The Royal Postgraduate Medical School where he won an ARC scholarship to write an MD thesis on the immunology of SLE with Mark, now Professor Sir Mark Walport, the Chief Scientific Officer.

• He was appointed Consultant at Maidstone Hospital in 1992 where he practiced General Medicine, developed the Rheumatology department and was highly active in research collaborating in almost 30 clinical trials and writing almost 50 papers and articles, most recently on the potential of Alkaline Phosphatase as a novel immune modifier in RA.

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• He left Maidstone Hospital leaving in 2011 to pursue the development of The Kent Institute (KIMS Hospital, Maidstone, Kent, UK), a new build private medical facility opened in 2013 where he was Clinical Chairman till 2016.

• Subspecialty Interest in spinal pain management was fostered by joining the International Spinal Intervention Society in 2000 and he is now an SIS European Instructor, active in teaching and development.

• His special interest is the diagnosis and management of iback pain and sciatica due to damaged intervertebral discs. He has published on antibiotics in Modic pain and is currently submitting positive results of a 100 patient case series of disc treatment and is developing a comprehensive minimally invasive and endoscopic disc pain service at KIMS Hospital. He provides routine NHS care in spinal pain management including endoscopic discectomy.

• These clinical insights offer additional advantage in the analysis of complex back pain after injury including RTA.

• He remains in full time practice, Privately at KIMS, Maidstone and London and NHS in pain management at KIMS and as a Locum in Rheumatology at Kings College, London.

Additional posts held Management and Administration: – Clinical Chairman, Kent Institute of Medicine and Surgery (KIMS). April 2013 – 2016 – Committee Member and Member of research Development Group British Pain Society Interventional Pain Management Special Interest Group – Chairman Kent and Medway Rheumatology Steering Group Dec 2002 – June 2013 to set strategy and establish policy for rheumatology practice in Kent and Medway with specific reference to biologic therapies for RA – Medical Lead for Schering Plough in NICE appeal on TNF sequential use. Sept 2009 – Lead Clinician General Medicine, Mid Kent Healthcare Trust Aug 93-Aug 96 – Royal College of Physicians Tutor, Mid Kent Healthcare Trust Feb 93-Aug 96 Research and Education – Chairman musculoskeletal division UK Comprehensive Local Research Network (CLRN) 2009 - 2013 – Co-Chair of the British Pain Society (BPS) Interventional Pain Medicine Special Interest

Group Interventional Research Development Committee with special responsibility for intervertebral disc protocols. 2010 - 2013

– Chief Investigator for Alloksys Life Sciences for the development of Alkaline Phosphatase as a therapeutic agent in Rheumatic Diseases. 2008- – Member of the Scientific Affairs Committee Amrif Life Sciences. 2011 - – Member of the International Spinal Intervention Society (ISIS) Europe, Middle East and Asia development committee. 2010 - – Tutor ISIS technical courses.2008 – – Tutor on interventional training courses for London Pain Forum, Birmingham Pain Course,

Aberdeen University pain course and others – Founder member of The London Pain Forum

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– Contributor to Map of Medicine and BPS standards development groups on back pain and sciatica. 2011 – 13 – NIHR Comprehensive Research Network Portfolio Oversight Group: member 2012 - 13 – Advisor: NIHR HTA assessment panel: topic 16084: Sciatica NICE Technology Assessment Interventions for Discogenic back Pain Membership of Learned Societies

• The British Medical Association

• The British Society for Rheumatology

• The Royal Society of Medicine

• The Spinal Intervention Society (formerly International Spinal Intervention Society)

• The British Pain Society and Interventional SIG

• Independent Doctors Federation

• The London Pain Forum: Founder Member