• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Auto-immune disorders
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Osteoporosis
• Gout
• Metabolic bone disease
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Acute and chronic general medicine
• Nutritional immunology
• Support for weight loss and smoking cessation
• Bereavement support.

• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London)
• British Society for Rheumatology
• European Society for the study of Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man
• Medical Section of Amnesty International
• British Society for Immunology
• Society for Neuroscience
• British Neuroscience Association
• British Pharmacological Society
• International Society for the Study of Tryptophan.

Dr L Gail Darlington is a Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist with a particular interest in complex rheumatological and medical issues. She takes a holistic approach to her clinical work, reviewing all aspects of a patient’s health and is interested in the assessment of complex Rheumatological and General Medical conditions which often takes more time than is currently available in primary and secondary care.

Dr Darlington treats a full range of General Medical and Rheumatological diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of inflammatory arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and spinal pain. She has a special interest in osteoporosis, gout and nutritional immunology and during the pandemic she has done more than twelve hundred telephone consultations and has acquired considerable experience in dealing with rheumatological and general medical symptoms provoked by coronavirus infection and from vaccines. She also helps patients with bereavement counselling and support for weight reduction and nicotine withdrawal.

 

Training and Appointment

Dr Darlington graduated from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London, was awarded the Hospital Trustees’ Research Fellowship, the Michael Mason Medal for her work on ultrasound in Rheumatology and a Private Patients’ Plan Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Clinical Lead in a research programme with the University of Oxford which is exploring the interface between kynurenine metabolism, the immune system and cancer. 

 

Research and Publications

Dr Darlington has undertaken research on rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, gout, stroke, lipid and purine metabolism, Huntington’s Disease, depression, chronic brain injury, neuroprotection, malaria, flavonoids in medicine, trypanosomiasis and aspects of nutritional immunology. She is involved in scientific research and in addition to her Research Fellowship at Cambridge, Dr Darlington was appointed Visiting Research Consultant at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability (2001-2004) and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Neuroscience and Biomedical Systems at the University of Glasgow (2001-2006).

She has published more than 70 peer reviewed papers and reviews, written four chapters in published books and co-edited three books. She serves on an International Medical Advisory Committee on Infection which has been involved in the development of antiviral protection during the pandemic.

 

Current Practice

Dr Darlington is a busy NHS Consultant for the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust and has private clinics at Mount Alvernia Hospital in Guildford and also elsewhere in Surrey and Hampshire. She works closely with Primary Care colleagues, seeing patients on long or short term bases or for single visits, as requested by GPs. Dr Darlington believes strongly in the benefits of a close , flexible, “easy access” working relationship with GP and Consultant Colleagues which works well for efficient patient care. She has a strong interest in working preventatively as well as therapeutically.