Dr Gail Darlington

Dr Gail Darlington

Consultant Rheumatologist

MB BS, MD (Lond), FRCP

I am a Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist with specialist accreditation in General Medicine and Rheumatology. I am Honorary Consultant Physician at Epsom General Hospital, Surrey and see private patients at the hospitals listed on this website.

I treat all aspects of rheumatology and general medicine, in particular rheumatoid arthritis, including dietary aspects, osteoporosis, gout, ankylosing spondylitis, hyperlipidaemia and bereavement counselling.

I graduated from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London University and received my Doctorate from the University of London. I qualified in medicine from the University of London, from where I was also awarded an MD for a thesis on lipid and purine metabolism. I was awarded the Charing Cross Hospital’s Trustees’ Research Fellowship, the Michael Mason Medal for my work on ultrasound in Rheumatology, and a Private Patients’ Plan Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge.

I am also Clinical Lead for sponsoring medical research.

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Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Gail Darlington at Spire include:

Rheumatology

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Osteoporosis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatology

Special clinical interest: All aspects of rheumatology and general medicine, in particular rheumatoid arthritis, including dietary aspects, osteoporosis, gout, ankylosing spondylitis, hyperlipidaemia and bereavement counselling.

Professional memberships

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London)

Br Society for Rheumatology

European Soc for the study of Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man

Medical Section of Amnesty International

Br Soc for Immunology

Soc for Neuroscience

Br Neuroscience Association

Br Pharmacological Society

International Society for the Study of Tryptophan

I have a widely-ranging research programme linked to the University of Glasgow and involving osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, stroke, neuroprotection, neurodevelopment, Huntington’s disease, depression, chronic brain injury, cardiac bypass surgery, malaria, trypanosomiasis, the use of flavonoids in medicine and various aspects of nutritional immunology. I founded Epsom Medical Research – a registered charity – has published over 50 peer-reviewed research papers and has co-edited four books.

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