Professor Chadi Rakieh
Consultant Rheumatologist and Clinical Lead for Oswestry Metabolic Bone Centre
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Professor Rakieh’s interests include: • Obesity, diabetes & fracture • Assessment of bone microstructure • Real world data on therapeutic interventions in osteoporosis • Rare bone disease
MD, PhD, FRCP
2015 RJAH
- Metabolic Medicine
General Medical Council (GMC), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS), Bone Research Society (BRS), European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS)
Metabolic bone disease
Chadi is a Consultant in Metabolic Bone Disease and an NIHR Fellow, with a longstanding commitment to research and clinical excellence in osteoporosis and metabolic bone health. After completing his medical degree in Syria, he pursued specialist training at Manchester and Leeds University Hospitals, earning a PhD from the University of Manchester in 2011. He completed his specialist training in Rheumatology in Leeds and was appointed as a consultant in 2015. Since 2020, Chadi has served as Clinical Lead of the Metabolic Bone Unit at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry. Under his leadership, the service has expanded significantly, now recognised as one of the largest NHS metabolic bone services in the UK. The unit provides over 12,000 DXA scans annually and has recently upgraded its scanning capabilities, expanding from a single Hologic scanner to two state-of-the-art DXA scanners from GE Healthcare, significantly enhancing capacity, precision, and clinical service delivery. In 2023, Chadi was awarded an NIHR Fellowship to investigate the relationship between obesity and fracture risk, building on his active research interests in bone quality, bone turnover, and predictors of treatment response to osteoporosis therapies. As part of this programme, he leads OsBONE, a large cohort study examining obesity and fracture risk, in collaboration with Professor Kasim Javaid at the University of Oxford (NDORMS). Chadi holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Chester, fostering academic links and collaborative research in bone health. He has also directed the development of an innovative electronic database, integrating clinical history, lifestyle factors, DXA scan results and bone turnover markers. This resource is already contributing to significant research collaborations and advancing understanding of osteoporosis risk and management.
