Section of Musculoskeletal Disease

Staff List

Professor Paul Emery

SECTION HEAD, ARC PROFESSOR OF RHEUMATOLOGY

Contact: Mrs Gayle Iype, PA to Section Head – Tel: 0113 3924884, g.a.iype@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Steve Rose, Business Manager - Tel: 0113 3924916, s.a.rose@leeds.ac.uk

Musculoskeletal Disease

Dr Giuseppina Abignano - Visiting Research Fellow
Mr Sudhi Ankarath - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Fabiola Atzeni - Visiting Research Fellow
Dr Sibel Aydin - Visiting Research Fellow
Dr Lesley Bissell
Mr Jonathan Branfoot - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Ms Christine Comer - Research Physiotherapist
Mr Ged Connolly-Thompson - Business Systems Analyst
Mr Lodewikus de Jager - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Francesco del Galdo - Senior Lecturer
Dr Sarah Else - Registrar
Mrs Sarah Fahy - Clinical Trials Coordinator
Mr Richard Grogan - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Mrs Lynne Guzha - Research Secretary
Dr Nicholas Harris - Honorary Lecturer
Dr Chamila Hettiarachi
Dr Elisabeth Horner - Research Officer
Dr Sarah Horton
Mr Kaladhar Jha - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Ms Sarah Kingsbury - Project Officer
Dr Wolfran Kluge - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Mr Kevin Lichtensteige - Research Secretary
Dr Marek Lubiecki - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Ed Middleton
Ms Andrea Paterson - Data Entry Clerk
Dr Maria Paul - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Sasha Radjenovic - Senior Translational Research Assistant
Mr PK Sharma - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Mrs Lubna Shafi - Technician
Dr Ilaria Tinazzi
Mr Emmanuel Tolessa - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Sarah Twigg - Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Edith Villeneuve - Honorary Research Fellow
Mr Anthony Watters - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Claire Wenham - Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Chi Wong - Research Technician
Dr Mark Wood - Honorary Senior Lecturer

CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY GROUP

• Professor Paul Emery – Group Leader
  Dr Jacqueline Andrews - Honorary Senior Lecturer
  Dr Zoe Ash - Honorary Research Fellow
  Dr Azad Aziz - Research Officer
  Dr Daniel BInks - Postdoctoral Research Assistant
• Professor Howard Bird – Professor
• Dr Maya Buch – Walport Lecturer
• Dr Laura Coates – Clnical Research Fellow
• Professor Philip Conaghan – Professor
• Mrs Diane Corscadden – Research Technician
  Dr Shouvik Dass - Clinical Research Fellow
  Dr Richard Foster - Postdoctoral Research Assistant
• Dr Jane Freeston – Clinical Research Fellow
• Mrs Karen Henshaw – Research Technician
• Dr Liz Hensor – Statistician
  Dr Steve Jarrett - Honorary Senior Lecturer
• Dr Anne-Maree Keenan – Co-ordinator of the Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit
• Dr Cathy Lawson – Clinical Research Fellow
• Dr Sarah Mackie – Lecturer
  Dr Helen MacIver - Honorary Research Fellow
  Dr Michael Martin - Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
• Ms Alison McManus – Research Nurse
  Dr Richard Melsom - Honorary Senior Lecturer
  Dr Sarah Miles - Honorary Senior Lecturer
• Dr Jackie Nam – Clinical Research Fellow
• Dr Sharmin Nazim – Honorary Research Fellow
  Dr Colin Pease - Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
• Mr David Pickles – Research Nurse
• Mr Matthew Robinson - Research Nurse
• Dr Benazir Saleem – Clinical Research Fellow
  Mr David Shaw - Honorary Senior Lecturer
  Dr Katharina Sokoll - Honorary Senior Lecturer
  Dr Ai Lyn Tan - Honorary Research Fellow
• Mrs Christine Thomas – Research Nurse
• Dr Ed Vital – Honorary Research Fellow
• Dr Richard Wakefield – Senior Lecturer
• Mrs Beverley Wells – Research Nurse
  Dr Ahmed Zayat - Research Fellow

REHABILITATION MEDICINE GROUP

• Professor Bipin Bhakta – Group Leader
  Professor David Andrich - Visiting Professor
• Mr Mike Horton – Research Assistant
  Mrs Vikki Lane - Secretary
  Ms Karen Lawson - Secretary
  Miss Sophie Makower - Visiting Research Physiotherapist
  Dr Vera Neumann - Honorary Senior Lecturer
  Dr Rory O'Connor - Honorary Senior Lecturer (Group Leader)
  Dr Julie Pallant - Visiting Research Fellow
• Mr Nick Preston – Physiotherapist
• Professor Alan Tennant – Professor

ORTHOPAEDICS GROUP

• Professor Peter Giannoudis – Group Leader, Professor
  Mr Peter Bobak - Honorary Senior Lecturer
  Mr Simon Britten - Honorary Senior Lecturer
  Mr Douglas Campbell - Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
  Mr John Cruickshank - Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
  Dr Robert Dunsmuir - Honorary Senior Lecturer
  Mr Roger Hackney - Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
  Mr John Lawton - Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
  Mr David MacDonald - Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
  Mr Peter Millner - Honorary Senior Lecturer
  Mr Ray Monkhouse - Honorary Senior Lecturer
  Dr Oghfori Obakponovwe - Clinical Research Fellow
  Ippocrates Puntos - Research Fellow
  Mr Abhay Rao - Honorary Senior Lecturer
• Dr Martin Stone - Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
• Mr Peter Templeton - Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
• Mr Eleftherios Tsiridis – Senior Lecturer
  Mr Ramakrishnan Venkatesh - Honorary Senior Lecturer

FOOT AND ANKLE GROUP

• Dr Phillip Helliwell – Group Leader, Senior Lecturer
• Dr Anthony Redmond – Group Leader, Senior Lecturer
  Ms Begonya Alcacer-Pitarch - Research Fellow
  Dr Michael Backhouse - Clinical Research Fellow
  Mrs Jill Halstead - Research Fellow
  Ms Heidi Siddel - Honorary Research Fellow
• Ms Robin Waxman – Project Coordinator

ACUMeN GROUP

• Dr Jackie Hill – Group Leader, Senior Lecturer
  Mrs Helen Greenwood - Secretary
• Professor Claire Hale – Professor, Co-Director of ACUMeN
• Mr Mwidimi Ndosi – Research Nurse
• Mrs Naomi Reay – Research Nurse, PhD Student
• Ms Karen Vinall – Research Assistant

RADIOLOGY GROUP

Dr Richard Hodgson - Group Leader, Senior Lecturer
Dr Dominic Barron - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Andrew Grainger - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Philip O'Connor - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Mr James Rankine - Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
Dr Philip Robinson - Honorary Senior Lecturer

RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY GROUP

• Professor Michael McDermott – Group Leader, Professor
  Dr Sarah Bingham - Honorary Senior Lecturer
• Dr Sarah Churchman – Research Fellow
• Mr Justin Gillespie - Research Technician
• Ms Rebecca Matthews – PhD Student
• Dr Sinisa Savic – Clinical PhD Student

MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL BIOLOGY GROUP

• Professor Dennis McGonagle – Group Leader, Professor
• Dr Thomas Baboolal - Postdoctoral Research Assistant
• Dr Sally Boxall - Research Fellow
• Dr Elena Jones – Lecturer

MOLECULAR RHEUMATOLOGY GROUP

• Dr Ann Morgan – Group Leader, HEFCE Clinical Senior Lecturer
• Dr Dawn Cooper – Research Fellow
• Mr Richard Cuthbert - Technician
• Dr Lukasz Kozera - Research Fellow
• Steve Martin – Technician
• Mr Jim Robinson – Scientific Officer/PhD Student

MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF IMMUNE MEDIATED INFLAMMATORY DISEASES

• Dr Frederique Ponchel – Group Leader, Academic Senior Research Fellow
• Dr Sarah Churchman – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Mrs Rekha Parmar – Senior Research Technician

BIOENGINEERING GROUP

• Mr Brain Whitham – Technician
• Dr Derrick White – Research Fellow