Professor Krysia Dziedzic

I qualified as a physiotherapist at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1982. I completed my PhD at Keele University in 1997 and became a Senior Research Fellow at Keele and West Midlands Physiotherapy Clinical Trialist, a post focussing on enhancing evidence based physiotherapy practice through randomised controlled clinical trials. In 2000 I was appointed Arthritis Research UK Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy. This post was created by the Arthritis Research UK to develop and expand academic activities in research, to provide inspiration and leadership to other allied health professionals, to work in a wider context within research in community rheumatology and to exert an influence at national and international levels. I work as part of an interdisciplinary research team at Keele who was awarded Arthritis Research UK funding as the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre in 2008 and was recognised in 2009-10 by the award of a prestigious Queens Anniversary Award to Keele University. I was awarded a personal chair by Keele University in 2010, as Arthritis Research UK Professor of Musculoskeletal Therapies.

I have led innovations to engage clinical practitioners to define questions and develop clinical trial proposals in musculoskeletal pain. I have initiated one of the largest longitudinal clinical hand studies in Europe. I am a Co-applicant on the Centre’s National Institute of Health Research osteoarthritis programme.

• To lead completion and dissemination of results from my current programme under the general theme of “improving the management of osteoarthritis in primary care”.
• To extend my research into innovative areas, including the extended role of health care professionals, such as practice nurses, in primary care management of joint pain.
• To continue to increase research capacity and training – in the Centre, and regionally and nationally – for non-medical health professionals.

• Guideline Development Group for the NICE osteoarthritis guidelines (NICE 2008), a national and international resource for osteoarthritis care. Currently on the Guideline Development Group for the Update of the NICE osteoarthritis guidelines (2012-2013).
• Joint Musculoskeletal lead for the North West Midlands CLRN
• Arthritis Research UK Research and Academic Capacity committee