Biography
Dr Kelsey Jordan has been in post at University Hospitals Sussex (previously Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust) since 2005.
Dr Jordan runs the Paediatric Rheumatology Service at The Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital for young people under the age of 17 years old. The service receives referrals from East, West and Mid-Sussex for young people with suspected inflammatory arthritis (JIA) and other inflammatory rheumatic diseases as well as young people with non-inflammatory rheumatic disorders such as joint hypermobility syndromes. Intra-articular joint injections under general anaesthetic, entonox and local anaesthetic are provided. Long term follow-up care and monitoring is provided for patients on anti-rheumatic immune suppressant treatments. For rarer and complex Rheumatic Disorders shared care is provided with Great Ormond Street and Evelina Hospital Paediatric Rheumatology clinical services.
Dr Jordan provides transition clinics for paediatric patients moving on to adult Rheumatology care and Adolescent and Young Person dedicated clinics (16 to 24 years old).
In Adult Rheumatology, she provides General Rheumatology and Inflammatory Arthritis clinics and a specialist clinic service for patients with complex Crystal arthritis (gout and CPPD) and is able to collaborate with MSK radiology colleagues to utilise Dual Energy CT (DECT) scanning. Additionally, she provides a Regional Tertiary combined Rheumatology/Ophthalmology clinic in collaboration with Mr Edward Hughes, Consultant Ophthalmologist, at the Sussex Eye Hospital providing care for patients with complex multi-system disorders affecting the eyes and musculoskeletal system who require immune suppressant treatments.
Dr Jordan is the departmental lead for Rheumatology trainees Education and provides Educational Supervision to Medical Trainees at UH Sussex.
Dr Jordan’s research interests have focussed predominantly on gout, inflammatory arthritis, safety of methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis and as a Rheumatology trainee, in osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.
She was author and international committee member of the European Society (EULAR) Guidelines on Management of Knee Osteoarthritis and national committee member and author of the British Society of Rheumatology Guidelines on Management of Gout and the National Consultant Rheumatologist Representative for the NICE Guidelines on Management of Gout published in 2022. She has collaborated and published with Brighton and Sussex Medical School research scientists looking at autoinflammatory diseases and nationally with liver and skin specialists looking at the safety of methotrexate in inflammatory diseases (it is safe!).
Dr Jordan is a Trustee Director of the charity UK Gout Society (unpaid role).