Professor Richard Keen

About Professor Richard Keen

Professor Keen graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1988. After training in general rheumatology, he pursued a specialised focus on osteoporosis and rare bone diseases. He completed doctoral research examining genetic factors in postmenopausal osteoporosis and received Young Investigator Awards from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and the European Calcified Tissue Society. Since 1999, he has served as a consultant at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, where he is Director of the Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease and Associate Director of Research & Innovation. He leads on adult metabolic bone disease for NHS England's 100,000 Genome Project and has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers.

Qualifications: BSc PhD FRCP

Recent and current appointments

• Director, Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UK
• Associate Director, Research & Innovation, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UK
• Lead for adult metabolic bone disease in the Musculoskeletal GeCIP Domain of NHS England’s 100,000 Genome Project.
• Medical Advisor to the UK Brittle Bone Society
• Member of the International Executive Council on Clinical Care and Treatment of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)
• Member of European Reference Network for Rare Bone Diseases (BOND)

Publications, lectures and teaching

• Teacher on iBSc Clinical & Molecular Endocrinology (King’s College London)
• Lectures nationally and internationally on bone diseases
• Published over 60 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals

Society memberships

• American Society of Bone and Mineral Research
• Bone Research Society
• British Society of Rheumatology
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
• National Osteoporosis Society
• Paget’s Association
• Royal Society of Medicine