缅北禁地

Title of current posts         

• Consultant & Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, 缅北禁地
• Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, 缅北禁地 Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust                All May 2002-

Funding

My role is 6 sessions clinical, 3 sessions undergraduate teaching (SIFT), 2 sessions postgraduate teaching & research (Degree Programme Director Masters of Clinical Research) & 0.5 session CLRN. There is agreement through the PDR process & appraisal to increase research time. I am both clinically qualified and clinically active.

Employment History

Specialist Registrar to: Dr PA Sanders, Dr B Pal & Dr A Ismail, Rheumatology,

South Manchester University Hospitals

Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, arc Epidemiology Unit (now ARUK)                                 Aug 2001-April 2002

Specialist Registrar to: Dr RM Bernstein & Dr I Bruce, Rheumatology, Manchester Royal Infirmary

Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, arc Epidemiology Unit (now ARUK)                                 Feb 2000-July 2001

Clinical Epidemiology Training Fellow: Professor AJ Silman (supervisor) & Dr GJ Macfarlane (adviser)          

                                arc Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester (now ARUK)                  Feb 1997-Jan 2000

Registrar to: Dr RC Butler & Dr AF Macleod, Rheumatology & General Medicine/Endocrinology, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry  Feb 1996-Jan 1997

Registrar to: Dr T Price, Dr TP Sheeran & Dr AB Hassell, Dr J Gibson, Dr J Elizabeth

Rheumatology & General/Elderly Medicine, Cannock Chase Hospital                                     Feb 1995-Jan 1996

Senior House Officer to: Prof. J Walls, Dr J Feehally, Dr K Harris & Dr G Warwick

                                Nephrology, Leicester General Hospital                                                                          Aug 1994-Jan 1995

Senior House Officer to: Prof. DB Barnett, Dr KL Woods & Dr LL Ng

                                Clinical Pharmacology & Medicine, Leicester Royal Infirmary                                        Feb-July 1994

Senior House Officer to: Prof. David de Bono & Dr PJB Hubner

                                Cardiology, Groby Road Hospital & Glenfield General Hospital                             Aug 1993-Jan 1994

Senior House Officer to:  Dr DR Ives, Medicine for the Elderly, Leicester Royal Infirmary                            May-July 1993

Senior House Officer to: Dr MA Stern & Dr A Scriven. Medicine, Immunology & Cardiology,
                                Leicester General Hospital                                                                                             Feb-April 1993

Pre-registration House Surgeon to: Mr DNL Ralphs, Mr BA Ross & Mr R Vaughan.

                                General & Thoracic Surgery, Norfolk & Norwich Hospital                                       Aug 1992-Jan 1993

Pre-registration House Physician to:  Dr G Neale, Dr JO Hunter  Dr BL Hazleman, Dr AJ Crisp & Dr JR Jenner,                            Medicine, Gastroenterology & Rheumatology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital                                        Feb-July 1992

                                               

Education

Secondary: The Manchester Grammar School                                                              1979-

Undergraduate: Emmanuel College, Cambridge                                                           1986-

Clinical School: Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge                                                                  1989-

Leicester SHO Rotation in Medicine                                                                              1993-

North Midlands Specialist Registrar Rotation in Rheumatology                                    1995-

PhD: ARUK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester                                            1997-

North West Specialist Registrar Rotation in Rheumatology                                          2000-2

Postgraduate Certificate & Diploma in Clinical Education                                             2004-9

 

Qualifications:

BA (Hon’s, Med Sci Tripos, Cantab. IIi) Part II Physiology                                            1989

MB, B Chir (Cantab.)                                                                                                     1991

MA (Hon’s, Cantab.)                                                                                                      1993

MRCP (UK)                                                                                                                    1994

FRCP (RCP London)                                                                                                     2007

PhD (Manchester)                                                                                                          2000

Certificate & Diploma of Clinical Education (缅北禁地)                                               ,2004 & 2009

Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy                                                    2018

Prizes

• LEA Scholarship to Manchester Grammar School
• Junior & Senior Exhibitions, Emmanuel College
• Fisons Prize, Paed’s Dept, Addenbrooke’s (for paper on Cystic Fibrosis)
• Desmond Hawkins Award, University of Cambridge
• Commonwealth Foundation Elective Bursary
• 3M Elective Competition, First prize (Cambridge)
• Leicester Hospitals Case Presentation Competition, First Prize
• (for presentation on Wegener’s granulomatosis)
• arc/ARUK Clinical Epidemiology Training Fellowship
• British Society for Rheumatology Young Investigator Award 
  (for research on progression of hip osteoarthritis)
• BSR Innovation in Development Award (for Group Clinic pilot)

My research students have also been awarded:

1. British Society for Rheumatology Young Investigator; OARSI Young Investigator; DOHAD Young Investigator; EULAR bursary; ARUK Primary Care regional & national prizes; Zeshan-Qureshi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Education

 

Recent & Current Grants

PROvision of braces for Patients with knee OsteoArthritis (PROP OA): a randomised controlled trial

National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment Commissioned Call: 16/160 Knee Braces in the Management of Knee Osteoarthritis

01/09/18-30/08/22

Co-applicant & Principal Investigator for Northumbria Site (1 of 3 sites; CI: Prof George Peat, Keele)

£1,377,543

 

Are microRNAs a molecular clock for biological and musculoskeletal ageing? The 缅北禁地 Thousand Families Study (NTFS)

National Institute for Health Research 缅北禁地 Biomedical Research Centre Project Grant

05/02/18-04/08/19

Principal Investigator

£60,824.87

 

Industry Partnership HTG

Loan equipment provided by HTG (equipment value £120,000)

Partnership discount saving on Edgeseq analysis= £750-£125=£625 per sample (for 390 samples) = £243,750

Training & support £10,000

 

Group Consultations; a potential solution to the workforce crisis in primary care.

Health Education England NE

1/11/17-31/10/18

Joint Principal Investigator

£49,500

 

Centre for Integrated research into Musculoskeletal Ageing (CIMA) Renewal

Medical Research Council & Arthritis Research UK

01/06/17-31/05/22

Co-investigator: Engagement Lead

£1,999,998.00 (FEC £2.45m)

 

CIMA equipment award (Qubit™ fluorometric quantitation)

Medical Research Council & Arthritis Research UK

Co-investigator (with Tania Jones & David Young)

12/12/16

£2,515.20

 

PROMOTE: a trial to treat painful knee osteoarthritis

Arthritis Research UK

Principal Investigator for multicentre study (Philip Conaghan CI)

01/10/2012-30/9/2018

£1,200,471.90

 

HERO: does hydroxychloroquine provide effective pain relief for people with hand osteoarthritis?

Arthritis Research UK

Principal Investigator for multicentre study

01/09/2011-31/8/2015

£900,692.45

 

Arthritis Research UK Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre- 缅北禁地

Arthritis Research UK

Co-Investigator

01/07/2012-30/06/2018

£375,000.00

 

CIMA Clinical Fellowship: Lifecourse influences on the development of structural changes on pMRI

Arthritis Research UK & Medical Research Council

Chief Investigator

01/09/2014-31/8/2015

£35,592.00

 

A pilot study to investigate the role of CILP in predicting the development of Osteoarthritis

NIHR BRC for Ageing

Collaborator

01/07/2014-30/06/2015

£21,158.34

 

X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM) for human and veterinary biomechanics

Medical Research Council

Co-Investigator (Lead for 缅北禁地; Karl Bates CI)

September 2013

£657,000

• Luqmani R, Hennell S, Estrach C, Birrell F, Bosworth A, Davenport G, Fokke C, Goodson N, Jeffreson P, Lamb E, Mohammed R, Oliver S, Stableford Z, Walsh D, Washbrook C, Webb F, British Society for Rheumatology, British Health Professionals in Rheumatology Standards, Guidelines and Audit Working Group. . Rheumatology 2006, 45(9), 1167-1169.
• Birrell F, Lohmander S. . British Medical Journal 2006, 333(7567), 507-508.
• Roddy E, Zhang W, Doherty M, Arden NK, Barlow J, Birrell F, Carr A, Chakravarty K, Dickson J, Hay E, Hosie G, Hurley M, Jordan KM, McCarthy C, McMurdo M, Mockett S, O'Reilly S, Peat G, Pendleton A, Richards S. . Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2006, 12(3), 347-52.
• Pearce MS, Birrell F, Francis RM, Rawlings DJ, Tuck SP, Parker L. . Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005, 59(6), 475-480.
• Birrell F, Lunt M, Macfarlane G, Silman A. . Rheumatology 2005, 44(3), 337-341.
• Birrell F, Lunt M, Macfarlane GJ, Silman AJ. . Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2005, 64(1), 95-98.
• Tuck SP, Pearce MS, Rawlings DJ, Birrell FN, Parker L, Francis RM. . British Journal of Radiology 2005, 78(930), 493-498.
• Roddy E, Zhang W, Doherty M, Arden NK, Barlow J, Birrell F, Carr A, Chakravarty K, Dickson J, Hay E, Hosie G, Hurley M, Jordan KM, McCarthy C, McMurdo M, Mockett S, O'Reilly S, Peat G, Pendleton A, Richards S. . Rheumatology 2005, 44(1), 67-73.
• Birrell F, Arden NK, Conaghan PG, Cooper C, Dieppe P, Doherty M. . Rheumatology 2005, 44(7), 829-830.
• Birrell F, Pearce MS, Francis RM, Parker L. . Clinical Rheumatology 2005, 24(6), 590-592.
• Birrell FN. . Rheumatology 2004, 43(4), 408-409.
• Pope DP, Hunt IM, Birrell FN, Silman AJ, Macfarlane GJ. . Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2003, 62(4), 322-326.
• Birrell F, Croft P, Cooper C, Hosie G, Macfarlane G, Silman A. . Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2003, 62(4), 356-358.
• Birrell FN, Gordon F. . BMJ careers 2001, 322(7286), S2.
• Birrell F, Croft P, Cooper C, Hosie G, Macfarlane G, Silman A. . Rheumatology 2001, 40(5), 506-512.
• Birrell F, Croft P, Cooper C, Hosie G, Macfarlane G, Silman A. . Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2000, 59(11), 857-863.
• Birrell FN, Hassell AB, Jones PW, Dawes PT. How Does the Short Form 36 Health Questionnaire (SF-36) in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Relate to RA Outcome Measures and SF-36 Population Values? A Cross-sectional Study. Clin Rheumatol 2000, 19, 195-99.
• Birrell F, Croft P, Cooper C, Hosie G, Macfarlane GJ, Silman A. . Rheumatology 2000, 39(7), 772-725.
• Birrell F, Johnell O, Silman A. . Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 1999, 58, 569-572.
• Kingsbury SR, Tharmanathan P, Keding A, Ronaldson S, Grainger A, Wakefield R, Arundel C, Birrell F, Doherty M, Vincent T, Watt FE, Dziedzic K, O'Neill T, Arden N, Scott DL, Dickson J, Garrood T, Green M, Menon A, Sheeran T, Torgerson D, Conaghan PG. . Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2017, 25(12), 2147-2147.
• Hind K, Pearce M, Birrell F. . Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2017, 32(5), 1109-1115.
• Ahmed HE, Pearce MS, Birrell F. . In: 2016 OARSI World Congress on Osteoarthritis - Promoting Clinical and Basic Research in Osteoarthritis. 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier.
• Jones O, Birrell F. . Practitioner 2016, 260(1799), 13-16.
• Kingsbury SR, Corp N, Watt FE, Felson DT, O'Neill TW, Holt CA, Jones RK, Conaghan PG, Arden NK, Adams J, Appleyard I, Birrell F, Blank M, Callaghan MJ, Cumming J, Chapman GJ, Halstead J, Hamilton DF, Hurley M, Martin K, Mason DJ, Nuki G, Redmond AC, Reilly K, Robinson N, Roddy E, Simpson H, Smith TO, Thomas C, Thomas E, Wilkinson J, Wise E. . Rheumatology (United Kingdom) 2016, 55(8), 1394-1402.
• Duncan R, Kingston A, Stephan B, Birrell F, Kirkwood T, Jagger C. . In: Rheumatology 2016. 2016, Glasgow: Oxford University Press.
• Roberts E, Nunes VD, Buckner S, Latchem S, Constanti M, Miller P, Doherty M, Zhang WY, Birrell F, Porcheret M, Dziedzic K, Bernstein I, Wise E, Conaghan PG. . Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2016, 75(3), 552-559.
• Arden NK, Cro S, Sheard S, Dore CJ, Bara A, Tebbs SA, Hunter DJ, James S, Cooper C, O'Neill TW, Macgregor A, Birrell F, Keen R. . Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2016, 24(11), 1858-1866.
• van Middelkoop M, Arden NK, Atchia I, Birrell F, Chao J, Rezende MU, Lambert RGW, Ravaud P, Bijlsma JW, Doherty M, Dziedzic KS, Lohmander LS, McAlindon TE, Zhang W, Bierma-Zeinstra SMA. . Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2016, 24(7), 1143-1152.
• Conaghan PG, Porcheret M, Kingsbury SR, Gammon A, Soni A, Hurley M, Rayman MP, Barlow J, Hull RG, Cumming J, Llewelyn K, Moscogiuri F, Lyons J, Birrell F. . Clinical Rheumatology 2015, 34(9), 1581-1588.
• Duncan R, Francis RM, Jagger C, Kingston A, McCloskey E, Collerton J, Robinson L, Kirkwood TBL, Birrell F. . Osteoporosis International 2015, 26(1), 123-130.
• Duncan R, Francis RM, Jagger C, Kingston A, McCloskey E, Collerton J, Robinson L, Kirkwood TBL, Birrell F. . Osteoporosis International 2015, 26(1), 123-130.
• Kingsbury SR, Tharmanathan P, Arden NK, Batley M, Birrell F, Cocks K, Doherty M, Edwards CJ, Garrood T, Grainger AJ, Green M, Hewitt C, Hughes R, Moots R, O'Neill TW, Roddy E, Scott DL, Watt FE, Torgerson DJ, Conaghan PG. . Trials 2015, 16, 77.
• Felson DT, Redmond AC, Chapman GJ, Smith TO, Hamilton DF, Jones RK, Holt CA, Callaghan MJ, Mason DJ, Conaghan PG, Adams J, Arden NK, Birrell F, Cumming J, Corp N, Halstead J, Hurley M, Kingsbury SR, Martin K, Nuki G, O'Neill T, Reilly K, Robinson N, Roddy E, Simpson H, Thomas C, Thomas E, Watt FE, Wilkinson J, Wise E. . Rheumatology (United Kingdom) 2015, 55(2), 320-326.
• Scott DL, Ibrahim F, Farewell V, O'Keeffe AG, Walker D, Kelly C, Birrell F, Chakravarty K, Maddison P, Heslin M, Patel A, Kingsley GH. . BMJ 2015, 350, h1046.
• Evangelou E, Kerkhof HJ, Styrkarsdottir U, Ntzani EE, Bos SD, Esko T, Evans DS, Metrustry S, Panoutsopoulou K, Ramos YFM, Thorleifsson G, Tsilidis KK, arcOGEN Consortium, Arden N, Aslam N, Bellamy N, Birrell F, Blanco FJ, Carr A, Chapman K, Day-Williams AG, Deloukas P, Doherty M, Engstrom G, Helgadottir HT, Hofman A, Ingvarsson T, Jonsson H, Keis A, Keurentjes JC, Kloppenburg M, Lind PA, McCaskie A, Martin NG, Milani L, Montgomery GW, Nelissen RGHH, Nevitt MC, Nilsson PM, Ollier WER, Parimi N, Rai A, Ralston SH, Reed MR, Riancho JA, Rivadeneira F, Rodriguez-Fontenla C, Southam L, Thorsteinsdottir U, Tsezou A, Wallis GA, Wilkinson JM, Gonzalez A, Lane NE, Lohmander LS, Loughlin J, Metspalu A, Uitterlinden AG, Jonsdottir I, Stefansson K, Slagboom PE, Zeggini E, Meulenbelt I, Ioannidis JPA, Spector TD, van Meurs JBJ, Valdes AM. . Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2014, 73(12), 2130-2136.
• Abraham AM, Pearce MS, Mann KD, Francis RM, Birrell F. . BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2014, 15, 162.
• Hind K, Birrell F, Beck B. . PLoS One 2014, 9(5), e97427.
• Stamm T, Hieblinger R, Bostrom C, Mihai C, Birrell F, Thorstensson C, Fialka-Moser V, Meriaux-Kratochvila S, Smolen J, Coenen M. . Musculoskeletal Care 2014, 12(1), 22-33.
• van Middelkoop M, Arden N, Atchia I, Birrell F, Chao J, Lambert RG, Ravaud P, Bijlsma JJ, Doherty M, Dziedzic KS, Lohmander S, McAlindon TE, Zhang W, Bierma-Zeinstra SM. . In: 2014 World Congress on Osteoarthritis. 2014, Paris, France: Elsevier.
• Hind K, Birrell F, Beck B. . In: 61st Annual Meeting of American College of Sports Medicine. 2014, Florida, USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
• Hudson G, Panoutsopoulou K, Wilson I, Southam L, Rayner NW, Arden N, Birrell F, Carluke I, Carr A, Chapman K, Deloukas P, Doherty M, McCaskie A, Ollier WE, Ralston SH, Reed MR, Spector TD, Valdes AM, Wallis GA, Wilkinson JM, Zeggini E, Samuels DC, Loughlin J, Chinnery PF. . Annals of Rheumatic Diseases 2013, 72(1), 136-139.
• Abraham A, Pearce MS, Mann KD, Francis RM, Birrell F. . In: Annual Meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology. 2012, Glasgow, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Abraham A, Pearce MS, Mann KD, Francis RM, Birrell F. . In: Annual Meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology. 2012, Glasgow, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Abraham AM, Pearce MS, Mann KD, Francis RM, Birrell F. . In: Annual Meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology. 2012, Glasgow, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Abraham A, Mann KD, Pearce MS, Francis RM, Birrell F. . In: Annual European Congress of Rheumatology EULAR. 2012, Berlin, Germany: BMJ Publishing Group.
• Nicolaou M, Amstrong R, Hassell AB, Walker D, Birrell F. . In: Rheumatology: Annual Meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology. 2011, Brighton, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Abraham A, Mann KD, Pearce MS, Francis RM, Birrell F. . In: Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: 7th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA: Cambridge University Press.
• Duncan R, Francis RM, Collerton J, Davies K, Jagger C, Kingston A, Kirkwood T, Robinson L, Birrell F. . In: Age and Ageing: British Geriatrics Society Spring Meeting. 2011, Liverpool: Oxford University Press.
• Duncan R, Francis RM, Collerton J, Davies K, Jagger C, Kingston A, Kirkwood T, Robinson L, Birrell F. . Age and Ageing 2011, 40(6), 752-755.
• Abraham A, Pearce MS, Francis RM, Birrell F. . In: Rheumatology: Annual Meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology. 2011, Brighton, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Abraham AM, Goff I, Pearce MS, Francis RM, Birrell F. . BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2011, 12(1), 70.
• Atchia I, Kane D, Reed MR, Isaacs J, Birrell F. . In: Rheumatology: Annual Meeting of the British Society of Rheumatology. 2009, Glasgow, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Birrell F, Croft P, Cooper C, Hosie G, Macfarlane G, Silman A. . British Journal of General Practice 2003, 53(486), 26-30.