Dr. David Jayne, respected European researcher, joins CSSA Advisory Board

The CSSA is happy to announce that Dr. David Jayne has accepted our invitation to serve on the CSSA Medical Advisory Board. We are especially pleased to have Dr. Jayne on board as he has a keen interest in multi center international research efforts. We at the CSSA recognize the importance of multi center studies with rare diseases such as CSS because of the limited availibility of patient populations to enroll in studies.Dr Jayne became involved with other European vasculitis researchers and led the development of the European Vasculitis Study Group (EUVAS) with Niels Rasmussen of Copenhagen in 1993. The European Vasculitis Study Group has developed a consensus approach to the treatment of vasculitis and has aimed to harmonize and optimize current therapy by a series of multi center randomized controlled trials. More information about the activities of the EUVAS, including current trials and links to patient organizations, can be found at http://www.vasculitis.org/. For a list of EUVAS collaborators around the world please follow this link: http://www.vasculitis.org/parlist.htm. In addition to founding the EUVAS, Dr Jayne is a member of the VCRC and has also collaborated on research with Japanese medical specialists.

Dr Jayne will be one of the speakers at the Vasculitis Foundation Symposium in July in Baltimore and wlll be happy to meet with CSS members attending this event.

Dr. David Jayne

Dr. David Jayne is a consultant in nephrology and vasculitis at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, UK. He has been researching into vasculitis since 1987 and has written and co-authored many articles pertaining to vasculitis, some of which are referenced at the end of this article.

Following is information about his career:

David R W Jayne, born January 19th, 1957, studied at the the University of Cambridge, and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School in London. After qualification as a medical practitioner in 1981, he trained in general medicine at St Mary's Hospital and the National Heart Hospital in London. His renal training began at St Thomas' Hospital and then he joined the research group of Professor Keith Peters at the Hammersmith Hosiptal in 1987. His MD thesis was supervised by Dr Martin Lockwood at the University of Cambridge and focused on the development of ANCA assays and investigations into the regulation of ANCA antibodies by the immune system. In 1992-1993 he spent one year as a clinical fellow in nephrology at Harvard Medical School working at the Beth Israel and New England Deaconess Hospitals. During this early 1990s he became involved with other European vasculitis researchers and from 1993 with Niels Rasmussen of Copenhagen led the development of the European Vasculitis Study Group (EUVAS). In 1995 he was appointed a Senior Lecturer in nephrology at St George's and St Helier Hospitals in London and in 2001 was appointed to his current post back in Cambridge. He now directs a large, multidisciplinary clinical service at Addenbrooke's Hospital that concentrates on vasculitis and lupus receiving national referrals of patients with difficult to manage disease. He also directs a clinical research group in Cambridge conducting clinical trials and clinical epidemiological studies into vasculitis and lupus and has formed strong links with a translational research programme with laboratory scientists in Cambridge. In addition to working with EUVAS, he is a member of the Vasculitis Collaborative Research Consortium (VCRC) and has developed joint studies with a Japanese network of vasculitis physicians. Particular research interests involve the early clinical evaluation of new therapies in vasculitis and lupus and the development of disease assessment tools. He has written many articles on those subjects in international peer-reviewed journals, gives lectures as an invited speaker on his research topics on all major international meetings, and is editorial board member of several journals in clinical immunology and nephrology.

Here are some articles written or co-authored by Dr. Jayne that can be found on PubMed, the US National Library of Medicine's search service that allows anyone with internet access to look for medical articles free of charge. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcg Jayne DRW. Related Articles, Links http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcg http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=Pu
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