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A Young Rheumatologist Plans to Kayak for Charity

The circumference of Great Britain is 2,600 miles, according to Dr. Martin Lee. The newly qualified consultant rheumatologist should know, given that he intends to kayak every inch of it to raise £100,000(11 pledges for the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society.

With a launch date of April 1, 2012, Dr. Lee, who has been granted a sabbatical by the Royal National Hospital of Rheumatic Diseases in Bath, has been inspired to undertake this endeavor by his beloved aunt, who has rheumatoid arthritis. Also on his mind are the many other people with RA whom he has met during his training, first at the University of Wales College of Medicine and then during his rheumatology training in southwest England

Planning to structure the trip as 100 marathons in 100 days, 32-year-old Dr. Lee said in an interview that he will launch from the a public boating club in Greenwich called the Ahoy Centre.

Anyone who attended the 2011 European Congress of Rheumatology in London's Docklands neighborhood was close to being across the Thames from the Ahoy Centre.

The conditions of his voyage will be spartan. Dr. Lee plans to sleep in a sleeping bag on the ground and survive on food stored in the kayak's hatches. “I don't have a spare kayak, so I can't smash my one on rocks!” Friends and relatives will deliver supplies of fresh food at prearranged meeting places along the route.

All the funds Dr. Lee plans to raise are to go to the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, a charity that provides support and advice for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Lee's own clinical area of interest is early inflammatory arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, he said.

Dr. Lee has been kayaking since he was a teenager. To date, his greatest kayak adventure was when he was 17 years old and spent the summer exploring North Vancouver Island in Canada. An all-around fierce athlete, Dr. Lee is also a member of the British Medical Football Team (http://www.britishmedicalfootballteam.co.uk/index.php/the-news/62-dr-martin-lees-100-day-round-the-isles-challenge

For more information about the challenge and to sponsor Dr. Lee, please go to http://www.martinkayaking.co.uk/

Dr. Martin Lee is attempting to raise funds for the National Royal Arthritis Society in a 100-day circumnavigation of Great Britain by kayak.

Source Courtesy Dr. Martin Lee

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The circumference of Great Britain is 2,600 miles, according to Dr. Martin Lee. The newly qualified consultant rheumatologist should know, given that he intends to kayak every inch of it to raise £100,000(11 pledges for the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society.

With a launch date of April 1, 2012, Dr. Lee, who has been granted a sabbatical by the Royal National Hospital of Rheumatic Diseases in Bath, has been inspired to undertake this endeavor by his beloved aunt, who has rheumatoid arthritis. Also on his mind are the many other people with RA whom he has met during his training, first at the University of Wales College of Medicine and then during his rheumatology training in southwest England

Planning to structure the trip as 100 marathons in 100 days, 32-year-old Dr. Lee said in an interview that he will launch from the a public boating club in Greenwich called the Ahoy Centre.

Anyone who attended the 2011 European Congress of Rheumatology in London's Docklands neighborhood was close to being across the Thames from the Ahoy Centre.

The conditions of his voyage will be spartan. Dr. Lee plans to sleep in a sleeping bag on the ground and survive on food stored in the kayak's hatches. “I don't have a spare kayak, so I can't smash my one on rocks!” Friends and relatives will deliver supplies of fresh food at prearranged meeting places along the route.

All the funds Dr. Lee plans to raise are to go to the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, a charity that provides support and advice for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Lee's own clinical area of interest is early inflammatory arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, he said.

Dr. Lee has been kayaking since he was a teenager. To date, his greatest kayak adventure was when he was 17 years old and spent the summer exploring North Vancouver Island in Canada. An all-around fierce athlete, Dr. Lee is also a member of the British Medical Football Team (http://www.britishmedicalfootballteam.co.uk/index.php/the-news/62-dr-martin-lees-100-day-round-the-isles-challenge

For more information about the challenge and to sponsor Dr. Lee, please go to http://www.martinkayaking.co.uk/

Dr. Martin Lee is attempting to raise funds for the National Royal Arthritis Society in a 100-day circumnavigation of Great Britain by kayak.

Source Courtesy Dr. Martin Lee

The circumference of Great Britain is 2,600 miles, according to Dr. Martin Lee. The newly qualified consultant rheumatologist should know, given that he intends to kayak every inch of it to raise £100,000(11 pledges for the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society.

With a launch date of April 1, 2012, Dr. Lee, who has been granted a sabbatical by the Royal National Hospital of Rheumatic Diseases in Bath, has been inspired to undertake this endeavor by his beloved aunt, who has rheumatoid arthritis. Also on his mind are the many other people with RA whom he has met during his training, first at the University of Wales College of Medicine and then during his rheumatology training in southwest England

Planning to structure the trip as 100 marathons in 100 days, 32-year-old Dr. Lee said in an interview that he will launch from the a public boating club in Greenwich called the Ahoy Centre.

Anyone who attended the 2011 European Congress of Rheumatology in London's Docklands neighborhood was close to being across the Thames from the Ahoy Centre.

The conditions of his voyage will be spartan. Dr. Lee plans to sleep in a sleeping bag on the ground and survive on food stored in the kayak's hatches. “I don't have a spare kayak, so I can't smash my one on rocks!” Friends and relatives will deliver supplies of fresh food at prearranged meeting places along the route.

All the funds Dr. Lee plans to raise are to go to the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, a charity that provides support and advice for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Lee's own clinical area of interest is early inflammatory arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, he said.

Dr. Lee has been kayaking since he was a teenager. To date, his greatest kayak adventure was when he was 17 years old and spent the summer exploring North Vancouver Island in Canada. An all-around fierce athlete, Dr. Lee is also a member of the British Medical Football Team (http://www.britishmedicalfootballteam.co.uk/index.php/the-news/62-dr-martin-lees-100-day-round-the-isles-challenge

For more information about the challenge and to sponsor Dr. Lee, please go to http://www.martinkayaking.co.uk/

Dr. Martin Lee is attempting to raise funds for the National Royal Arthritis Society in a 100-day circumnavigation of Great Britain by kayak.

Source Courtesy Dr. Martin Lee

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