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Philip Gardiner

Dr Philip Gardiner is a Rheumatologist from N. Ireland. He was an early proponent of the potential benefits of social media to promote education in rheumatology, primarily through the use of blogs and twitter. He has an active research interest in outcome measures for axSpA, RA and PsA but he also uses conferences to keep up to date with topics important to the clinician. 

Articles By Philip Gardiner

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Updates on Psoriatic Arthritis at ACR 2018

By Philip Gardiner

I think 2018 was the year that belonged to psoriatic arthritis (although some may argue in favor of immune conditions induced by Checkpoint inhibitors). Many years ago the late Professor Verna Wright in Leeds (UK) was a lone voice for many years describing the clinical subtypes of Psoriatic arthritis as something distinctive from rheumatoid arthritis. For a long time we thought that the treatments for PsA were just the same as RA since we were treating the same problem of synovitis.

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Hydroxychloroquine Dosing: the Great Debate

By Philip Gardiner

Rheumatologists tend to be a conservative bunch of people. We’re law abiding and we (mostly) follow guidelines. Which is fine when they are in the best interests of our patients, but what do we do when we fundamentally disagree?

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Axial Spondylitis Abstracts Roundup

By Philip Gardiner

There have been a number of interesting posters and presentations covering the field of axial spondyloarthropathy. I’ve picked out a few points that I found particularly relevant. Classification Criteria

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