Bone and Joint Week Webinar | 14 October
Overview
Bone and Joint Week Webinar | 14 October 19:00-20:00
Bone and Joint Week is a national action week held annually from October 12th to 20th. It focuses on raising awareness about prevention, disease management and treatment for musculoskeletal disorders including arthritis, back pain, trauma, paediatric conditions and osteoporosis.
This webinar will consist of a panel of 3 experts who will look at why musculoskeletal health is important and how it impacts multiple aspects of a persons life. It will discuss menopause and its connection with arthritis and different treatments for the condition. It will explore the impact of adverse childhood experiences on chronic pain and responses to treatment in adulthood. There will also be time for questions at the end of the webinar.
The audience for this webinar is physiotherapists, occupational therapists, osteopaths, GP’s, fitness and primary care professionals.
The webinar will be held virtually over Zoom and is free to attend. Delegates must REGISTER HERE in advance.
Course convenors:
Dr Benjamin Ellis MBE
Rheumatologist Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Benjamin is a consultant rheumatologist and clinical director for outpatient transformation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and since 2010 he has combined clinical work with his role as senior clinical policy advisor to Versus Arthritis. In 2008, he undertook a two-year secondment to work as both clinical advisor to the England Chief Medical Officer and programme manager at WHO Patient Safety, and subsequently completed his master of public health degree at John’s Hopkins. His interests include promoting a public health approach to musculoskeletal health, improving the extent and quality of musculoskeletal health data and developing systems to support self-management for people with long-term conditions.
Dr Fiona Watt
Reader and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Dr Fiona Watt is a Reader in Rheumatology at Imperial College London and honorary consultant rheumatologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, prior to that at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford. Her medical training was in Newcastle upon Tyne, and specialist training in rheumatology in North West London. She completed her PhD in cartilage biochemistry at Imperial College London, and now leads a research programme focussed on understanding, predicting and preventing osteoarthritis in high risk groups.
Professor Tim Hales
Professor of Anaesthesia (Teaching and Research) Principal Investigator of the Consortium Against Pain in Equality School of Medicine, University of Dundee
Tim Hales graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Physiology from King’s College London in 1986 and a PhD from the University of Dundee in 1990. He completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of California in Los Angeles and in 1997 was appointed Assistant Professor at the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington DC where he gained tenure in 2002. He became Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine and Director of Research in Anesthesiology at GWU (2006-2009).
Tim returned to Dundee in 2009 as Professor of Anaesthesia and non-clinical head of the Division of Neuroscience. He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2011 and was appointed Associate Dean in the School of Medicine in (2017-2023). His research group studies the mechanisms of action of anaesthetics and opioid analgesics, drugs that modulate neuronal communication through ion channel modulation. Tim’s goal is to improve anaesthesia and analgesia by educating future researchers and anaesthetists and identifying molecular targets responsible for the desirable and detrimental effects of anaesthetics and analgesics. His research has received support from the Wellcome Trust, Tenovus Scotland, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (USA), and the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia (UK).
Tim established the UKRI/Versus Arthritis funded Consortium Against Pain Inequality (CAPE) in 2021. Part of the UK’s Advanced Pain Discovery Platform (APDP), CAPE is a group of researchers and their patient partners examining the impact of adverse childhood experiences on chronic pain and responses to treatment in later life. Tim is also a co-investigator on Alleviate – The APDP Pain Research Data Hub also based in Dundee.