Professor Alexander Bennett

Professor Alexander Bennett is a Consultant Rheumatologist, clinical academic and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. He has a keen interest in research as well as clinical aspects of rheumatology and sports medicine. He has published widely, in particular in the fields of early diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of seronegative inflammatory arthritis/ spondyloarthritis/ ankylosing spondylitis, in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, and in sports and exercise medicine. He lectures regularly at national and international rheumatology and sports medicine conferences. He is the secretary of the British Society of Spondyloarthritis and a leading clinician in the field of spondyloarthritis in the UK and internationally.

Professional interests Prof 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 Clinical Excellence Award : Gold 2023 Clinical Excellence Award: Silver 2018 Clinical Excellence Award: Bronze 2015 Winner 2008 BSR Young Investigators Award Winner Defence Rehabilitation Academic Award 2008 and 2011.  Publications: Evaluation of the current use of MRI to aid the diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis in the UK: results from a freedom of information request  (2024) BRITSpA at five (2020) MRI lesions in the sacroiliac joints of patients with spondyloarthritis: an update of definitions and validation by the ASAS MRI working group (2019) Short-term Repeat Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans in Suspected Early Axial Spondyloarthritis Are Clinically Relevant Only in HLA-B27-positive Male Subjects (2018) The evidence for whole-spine MRI in the assessment of axial spondyloarthropathy (2010) The fatty Romanus lesion: a non-inflammatory spinal MRI lesion specific for axial spondyloarthropathy (2010) Magnetic resonance imaging in spondyloarthritis (2010) Evaluation of the diagnostic utility of spinal magnetic resonance imaging in axial spondylarthritis (2009) Diagnosing axial spondyloarthropathy. The new Assessment in SpondyloArthritis international Society criteria: MRI entering centre stage (2009) Baseline and 1-year magnetic resonance imaging of the sacroiliac joint and lumbar spine in very early inflammatory back pain. Relationship between symptoms, HLA-B27 and disease extent and persistence (2009) 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 (2008)