Dr Sarah Mackie
- Position: Associate Professor (Consultant)
- Areas of expertise: giant cell arteritis; polymyalgia rheumatica
- Email: S.L.Mackie@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: Chapel Allerton Hospital
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Profile
I attended Oxford University Medical School and qualified in 1999. Following house jobs I worked at Northwick Park Hospital on the SHO Medical Rotation and then spent six months working on ITU at the Whittington Hospital. I then returned to Northwick Park Hospital to work as a Clinical Fellow in Rheumatology before moving to Leeds in 2004 to start my rheumatology specialist training. Between 2006 and 2010 I took time out of training for a PhD (clinical and laboratory study of giant cell arteritis) and after returning to clinical training was awarded a NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship. I gained my certificate of specialist training in rheumatology in 2013 and also in that year, I commenced a five-year NIHR Clinician Scientist Fellowship Award which was focused around the condition polymyalgia rheumatica.
Research interests
My research is focused around two linked conditions: giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica. I am also interested in the effects of the glucocorticoid therapy used to treat them. I am interested in how new scientific insights may be used to improve clinical care and clinical outcomes.
Qualifications
- BA(Hons)
- BM BCh
- MRCP(UK)
- PhD
Research groups and institutes
- Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine
- Musculoskeletal disease
- Targets and therapies
- Immunity and inflammation