Benjamin Faber

University of Bristol

Ben is currently a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Bristol funded by an Early Career Award Fellowship. His work primarily focuses on understanding the aetiology of osteoarthritis using imaging, genetic and demographic data. Alongside his research Ben works clinically as an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at North Bristol NHS Trust. Previously Ben was an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer and before that he completed an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship submitting his PhD thesis entitled "Genetic and epidemiologic approaches to elucidate the role of abnormal hip shape in the development of hip osteoarthritis," which was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Prize 2022/23 by the University of Bristol Faculty of Translational Health Sciences. He was supervised by Professor Jon Tobias and Professor George Davey Smith. This project involved collaborating with researchers at The University of Manchester and University of Aberdeen in the UK, and Erasmus MC, the Netherlands and the University of Queensland, Australia. In 2015, Ben was awarded a Wellcome funded Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Clincial Research Primer at the University of Bristol. During this 7 month grant Ben looked at the associations between DXA-derived hip shape and osteoarthritis in the MrOS study, spending a month working at Oregon Health and Science University in the USA. In 2017, Ben was appointed as a NIHR Academic Clincal Fellow in Rheumatology at North Bristol NHS Trust and the University of Bristol. Ben sits on the Musculoskeletal Research Advisory Group for Arthritis UK and the Clinical Advisory Group for the ALSPAC study. He qualified as a doctor from Imperial College London in 2012.