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Physiotherapy

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School of Health and Rehabilitation

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Nadine Foster & Krysia Dziedicz

Nadine Foster & Krysia Dziedicz

Posted on 19 March 2010
We would like to congratulate Dy Krysia Dziedzic and Dr Nadine Foster, both of whom have been promoted to Professors. Both are Physiotherapists who began their careers at Keele in the School of Health and Rehabilitation prior to moving to the Primary Care Science Research Institute.

Krysia Dziedicz (Primary Care)

Krysia Dziedzic (PCHS) trained as a physiotherapist and has been instrumental in forging the successful partnership between SHAR and Primary Care at Keele and the Haywood Hospital.  Her interest in identifying evidence-based treatments for patients with arthritis and pain led to her appointment as the first West Midlands regional facilitator for physiotherapy trials, and to important studies on treating neck, shoulder and back problems that were conducted with a network of physiotherapy colleagues throughout the region.  She was subsequently appointed to the first Senior Lectureship in Physiotherapy to be sponsored by the leading UK charity Arthritis Research UK (formerly ARC), developing a programme of research into treating hand pain and expanding her team to include occupational therapists and radiographers.  Krysia currently leads a new project funded by NIHR to put the best care for osteoarthritis into everyday medical practice.  A past President of the British Health Professionals in Rheumatology, she was also a member of the NIHR (NICE) team which produced the current UK guidelines for treatment of osteoarthritis.

Nadine Foster (Primary Care)

Nadine Foster (PCHS) joined Keele in 2000 as a Lecturer in SHAR, continuing her research into the mechanisms of pain and the gap between research evidence and clinical management of pain.  She moved to PCHS in 2004 to develop clinical trials of treatments for patients with musculoskeletal pain, and secured a prestigious NIHR Primary Care Career Scientist Award, only the second awarded nationally to a physiotherapist.  She led studies of how beliefs held by patients and health care professionals about pain can influence the course of conditions such as back pain, completed an important trial of exercise and acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis, and is currently working with GPs and physiotherapists on new approaches to treating patients with back pain and knee pain supported by NIHR and the Health Foundation.  She leads the Keele arm of an MRC-funded collaboration with Bristol University investigating the value of telephone assessment and advice delivered by physiotherapists.  Nadine is an executive of the UK Society for Back Pain Research and UK representative on the International Forum for Primary Care Low Back Pain Research.    

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