Happy Birthday to Professor Hughes today! Wishing him all the best from our forum! Hoping that wherever he is today.... that somewhere a celebration is taking place.
MaryF
ps about Professor Graham Hughes:
Consultant Rheumatologist, Head of London Lupus Centre
Professor Graham Hughes
Professor Graham Hughes
Consultant Rheumatologist, Head of London Lupus Centre
Lupus Rheumatology
Professor Graham Hughes trained and qualified at The London Hospital.
In 1969 - 1970 he spent two years Postgraduate Fellowship in New York at the Rheumatology & Lupus Centre of Dr Charles Christian.
Professor Hughes became a Consultant Physician at Hammersmith Hospital where he set up Europe’s first dedicated Lupus Clinic in 1973.
In 1983 he described the clotting disorder now known as Hughes Syndrome. In 1985 he set up the Lupus Unit at St Thomas’ Hospital.
In 1993 he received the World Rheumatology (ILAR) Research Prize for the description of Hughes Syndrome.
He is a member of the American Lupus “Hall of Fame, and Doctor Honoris Causa at the Universities of Marseille and Barcelona, a Master of the American College of Rheumatology and founder and editor of the International Journal LUPUS .
Special interests
Hughes Syndrome, Lupus, General Rheumatology
