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Keele and Lund Universities celebrate a successful collaboration in primary care research
Keele and Lund Universities celebrate a successful collaboration in primary care research
Ingemar Petersson, Professor of Orthopedics at Lund University, is an internationally respected leader in research and delivery of the multidisciplinary organisation of care for patients with arthritis and his long-time and continuing support for, and collaboration with, researchers in the iPCHS, has been recognised by Keele this year with an award of the post of Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health. He plans regular trips to Keele to promote the epidemiological work of the Keele Centre and to help develop European grant proposals.
Peter Croft, Professor of Primary Care Epidemiology in Keele’s Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences has been honoured by the Faculty of Medicine at Lund with an award of Honorary Doctor of Medicine by the University in a ceremony with traditions going back more than 200 years, including a service entirely in Latin in Lund Cathedral, and cannons roaring as a doctoral hat and gold ring were placed on head and finger respectively. The picture shows Professor Petersson and Professor Croft at the Lund ceremony.
Lund University in Sweden is one of Europe’s oldest with a Medical School dating back to 1668; Keele University has one of the newest Medical Schools in Europe. Medical researchers in these two institutions have forged a collaboration that bridges their very different histories and celebrates their joint interest and expertise in the field of primary care and musculoskeletal research. In Lund the collaboration is led by Ingemar Petersson, and Martin Englund, Senior Clinical Scientist/Associate Professor of Orthopedics. In Keele it is led by George Peat, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Kelvin Jordan, Reader in Biostatistics.
Lund hosts a secure database of all health care consultations in the southern Swedish county of Skåne, and Keele hosts a similar database of all primary care consultations from local general practices in North Staffordshire. Research teams at the Epi-centre of Skåne and the Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences at Keele have collaborated to use these datasets to compare, for example, back pain and osteoarthritis between the two countries.
More information can be found on the Lund University website
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