MEMBERS of a Flintshire club learned about the work of a former Mold pupil at their latest online meeting.

The Rotary Club of Mold has suspended many activities on account of the current restrictions, but members still meet on Mondays via Zoom.

The speaker on March 1 was Dr. Simon W. Jones, a former student at Mold Alun School who is now Reader in in Musculoskeletal Ageing at the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham.

Describing what members learned from him, a spokesman for the club said: "Dr. Jones first studied at the University of Nottingham and after a training and qualifying as a teacher, he later returned to Nottingham to study for a PhD into 'The Mechanism that causes loss of skeletal mass with age'.

"In 2006 he joined the pharmaceutical industry, spending eight years with Astra Zeneca in Alderley Park Cheshire and two years at Boehringer Ingelheim in Vienna.

"He returned to the UK in 2012 to take up a position as a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Birmingham University.

"He has since been promoted to Reader and now divides his time between lecturing trainee doctors, and leading a research group into identifying the causes of Osteo Arthritis, focusing in particular on understanding the role of obesity-associated inflammation in musculoskeletal age-related disease including sarcopenia and osteoarthritis.

"Dr. Simon’s talk was very well illustrated and most informative."

The vote of thanks was proposed by Rtn. David Williams, who was Dr. Simon’s headmaster at Mold Alun School.