Current NHS consultant posts held
Consultant Rheumatologist at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court since October 2008 and at Guys and St Thomas' Teaching Hospitals since Feb 2009.
Research interests
Dr Bennett has a keen interest in research as well as clinical aspects of Rheumatology and Sports Medicine. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds and has published widely in Rheumatology, and in Sports and Exercise Medicine. He has lectured on many occasions at national, European and American Rheumatology and Sports Medicine meetings. He has many ongoing active research studies.
Personal interests
Dr Bennett's particular clinical interests are inflammatory arthritis including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis/spondyloarthritis, back pain, osteoporosis, gout and sports and exercise medicine.
Awards received
Winner 2008 BSR Young Investigators Award
Winner Defence Rehabilitation Academic Award 2008 and 2011.
Supervisor of the 2010 Defence Rehabilitation research conference prize.
Languages spoken
English
Publications
Expanding the spectrum of Inflammatory Spinal Disease: AS it was, as it is now
Isdale, A., Marzo-Ortega, H., Bennett, A.N., Gaffney, K., Sengupta, R., Keat, A.
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2013 Dec;52(12):2103-5.
Ten Year follow up of Spondyloarthritis related Oligoarthritis involving the knee: The presence of Psoriasis but not HLA-B27 or baseline MRI bone oedema predict outcome.
Bennett A.N, Marzo-Ortega H, Tan AL , Hensor E.M.A, Green M, Emery P, McGonagle D.
Rheumatology. 2012 Feb 10
The Fatty Romanus Lesion- A non-inflammatory spinal MRI lesion specific for axial-Spondyloarthropathy
Bennett A.N, Rehman A, Hensor E.M.A, Marzo-Ortega H, Emery P, McGonagle D.
Ann Rheum Dis 2010 69(5): 891-4
Evaluation of the Diagnostic Utility of MRI in Axial Spondyloarthritis.
Bennett A.N, Rehman A, Hensor E.M.A, Marzo-Ortega H, Emery P, McGonagle D.
Arthritis Rheum. 2009 May;60(5):1331-41
Severity of baseline magnetic resonance imaging-evident sacroiliitis and HLA-B27 status in early inflammatory back pain predict radiographically evident ankylosing spondylitis at eight years.
Bennett AN, McGonagle D, O'Connor P, Henzor EMA, Coates LC, Emery P, Marzo-Ortega H.
Arthritis Rheum. 2008 Nov;58(11):3413-8.
Predictors of Symptomatic Response to Glucosamine in Knee Osteoarthritis: An Exploratory Study
Bennett AN, Crossley KM, Brukner PD, Hinman RS
Br J Sports Med 2007 Jul; 41(7):415-9
Adalimumab in Clinical Practice – Outcome in 70 Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Including Comparison of Patients with and without Previous Anti-TNF Exposure.
Bennett AN, Peterson P, Zain A, Grumley J, Panayi G, Kirkham B
Rheumatology 2005;44:1026-1031
Diagnosing Axial Spondyloarthropathy.
The New Assessment in Spondyloarthritis International Society Criteria: MRI entering centre stage.
Bennett A.N, Marzo-Ortega H, Emery P, McGonagle D
Ann Rheum Dis. 2009 Jun;68(6):765-7
Magnetic resonance imaging in spondyloarthritis.
Marzo-Ortega H, McGonagle D, Bennett AN.
Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2010 Jul;22(4):381-7
The Evidence for Whole Spine MRI in the assessment of axial Spondyloarthropathy
Bennett A.N, Marzo-Ortega H, Rehman A, Emery P, McGonagle D.
Rheumatology 2010 49(3): 426-32.
MRI predicts response to anti-TNF in ankylosing spondylitis: Priority paper evaluation
Bennett AN & Emery P.
Int J Clin Rheumatol Apr 2009 4;2:123-126
Rheumatology, Rehabilitation Medicine and Sports medicine
Bennett A, Phillip R, Scott P, Minden D, Jones T, Mistlin A.
