Prestigious Fellowship Award

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Posted on 12 August 2011

Professor Christian Mallen has been awarded an Arthritis Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship award (three years funding of £411,000) to develop a new programme of work on identification and improved management of polymyalgia rheumatica, within the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele. 

It is the first time that this prestigious award has been made to an academic General Practitioner - indeed, the first time that the Clinician Scientist Fellowship has been awarded to a non-lab based scientist, illustrating the scale of Professor Mallen's success. The award also supports the Primary Care Research Centre to develop an important new area of research.

He was recently appointed as Professor of General Practice (Research) within the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre.  Professor Mallen first joined the Centre in 2001 as a GP Academic Training Fellow, undertook a research Masters at the same time as completing his clinical training in general practice, gained MRCGP with distinction and was awarded the first Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Fellowship. This award supported his PhD study, following which he gained promotion to Senior Lecturer in 2009.

In addition to an extremely strong research track record in general practice management of musculoskeletal pain, Professor Mallen has taken the lead in establishing the Keele Clinical Academic Research Training Scheme, which is widely seen as one of the most successful models in the country. Throughout, he has continued his commitment to patient care as a partner at the Kingsbridge Medical Centre.

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