Professor Kevin Davies is currently Medical Director of the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards (ACCEA) and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, having played a key role in setting up the school in 2002. He was previously a Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust.
Professor Davies' main areas of interest are: multi-system rheumatic diseases, cardiovascular risk factors and inflammation, hypermobility and chronic pain and fatigue and he is still research-active in all of these.
He has previously served as a Trustee of Arthritis Research UK (re-named Arthritis UK in October 2025) and worked for many years as an international director at the Royal College of Physicians, with responsibility for European affairs.