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NIHR Professorship
Leading Keele Medical Health Researcher Awarded NIHR Professorship
A Keele professor is one of eight of the UK's most promising leaders in medical health research to be awarded a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) professorship, the Government announced this week.
Each professor - selected by an international panel of independent experts - will receive around £1.5m of funding to conduct research into conditions that affect millions of patients across the UK.
Professor Nadine Foster, Professor of Musculoskeletal Health in Primary Care, Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre/ Primary Care Sciences, is to receive funding for her research programme which will ensure GPs and physiotherapists offer treatments and services that help people with musculoskeletal pain and disability, so they can cope with and reduce pain.
She said: "Support from the NIHR for this five year research programme will ensure the delivery of high quality evidence to support treatments and primary care services for patients with common painful conditions including back pain, shoulder pain and knee pain.
"My research involves randomised clinical trials testing the clinical and cost effectiveness of different treatments, as well as new services that can be translated into improved patient care."
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