8.40am – 9.30am GMT, 2 December 2025 ‐ 50 mins
Podium Lecture
Moderators: Richie Gill, Nick Fuggle
Format: 5 free papers, 8 minutes each
Nick Fuggle is an Associate Professor at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre (MRC LEC), University of Southampton and an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at University Hospitals Southampton. He researches musculoskeletal ageing with a focus on the deployment of computer vision to predict musculoskeletal outcomes. He has held a Turing Fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute and is a co-organiser of the Clinical AI Interest Group. He has received numerous national and international awards including the British Society of Rheumatology Young Investigator Award (2022) and the International Osteoporosis Foundation Pierre Meunier Award (2022). He is Associate Editor of Rheumatology (Oxford) and on the Editorial Board of Osteoporosis International, Calcified Tissues International and Ageing Clinical and Experimental Research. He sits of the board of the European Society for the Clinical and Economic aspect of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders (ESCEO) and is MSK Medical Director of DocHQ.