Gareth is a non-clinical epidemiologist with expertise in the design, methodology and analysis of large-scale epidemiological studies. He has been involved in running a number of Scotland-wide and/or UK-wide registries for around 15yrs, either as Chief Investigator or deputy Chief Investigator, and is also involved in EuroSpA, a large collaboration pooling and analysing data from registries across 17 different countries, and over 24,000 patients, from across Europe.