Primary Care & Health Sciences

I came to Keele in 2005, having previously worked for Stoke PCT as a project coordinator in the department of Health Promotion and as a research officer for a national charity. My undergraduate degree is a BSc (Hons) in Diagnostic Radiography (1994) and I have completed postgraduate education including a MSc in Human Osteology and Palaeopathology (2001) and a PhD (2010) (title: Patterns of radiographic hand osteoarthritis and associations with pain and function: a prospective cohort study).

My research interests include:

• Epidemiology of hand and foot OA
• Radiographic Imaging
• Ultrasound
• Subtypes of hand OA including erosive OA
• Joint distribution of OA
• Plantar fasciitis

Teaching:

• MSc Medical Science – Statistics and Epidemiology Module
• MBChB Student Selected Component  – Research Module: Measuring Health Outcomes

Supervision:

• MBChB 4^th year undergraduate project – Putting your best foot forward; a radiographic review of definitions of foot osteoarthritis (completed 2010)
• BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy undergraduate project – A systematic review of radiographic progression of hand osteoarthritis (completed 2011)
• PhD in Clinical Epidemiology – 1^st metatarsophalangeal joint osteoarthritis (ongoing)

Grants:

• 2007 Medical Research Council Health Services Research Collaboration - Training Bursary Award (07/BA015) [£971.50] for attendance on the Intensive Course in Applied Epidemiology at the University of Aberdeen in March 2007
• 2008 Arthritis Research Campaign - Allied Health Professional Educational Travel Award (AHPETA 18452) [£500] for attendance at the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World Congress in Rome September 2008.
• 2009 Keele University Postgraduate Research Assistance Fund (PG ASSIST FUND P527281) [£208] for attendance at Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World Congress in Montreal September 2009.

Courses attended:

• MSc Modules in Principles of Ultrasound and Focused Specialist Ultrasound Practice, Derby University, 2010
• Intensive course in Applied Epidemiology for Rheumatologists, Aberdeen University, 2007
• Practical Introduction to Running Randomised Clinical Trials, Keele University, June 2006
• MMedSci Research Methods Module, Keele University, 2005
• MMedSci Statistics and Epidemiology Module, Keele University, 2005

Conference attendance:

• Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), Brussels, September 2010
• Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), Montreal, September 2009
• Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), Rome, September 2008
• British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) Annual Meeting, Birmingham, May 2007
• The Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC), Keele, July 2006
• Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), Prague, December 2006

Conference presentations:

• Marshall M, van der Windt D, Nicholls EE, Myers H, Dziedzic KS. (September 2010) Severity of radiographic hand osteoarthritis predicts a small increase in hand pain and functional limitation at 3-years. Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) 2010 World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Brussels - Poster Presentation.                            
• Trivedi B, Marshall M, Roddy E. (April 2010) Radiographic definitions of foot osteoarthritis in population-based studies – a systemic search ad narrative review. British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) Annual Meeting, Birmingham – Poster Presentation.
• Marshall M, van der Windt D, Nicholls EE, Myers H, Dziedzic KS. (September 2009) Change in hand pain and function at 18-months and 3-years in radiographic sub-groups of hand osteoarthritis in community-dwelling adults aged 50 years and over. Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) 2009 World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Montreal - Poster Presentation.
• Marshall M, van der Windt D, Myers H, Nicholls EE, Dziedzic KS. (April-May 2009) Radiographic OA in the 1st  CMC joint and the thumb as a whole: associations with pain, clinical features and test results. British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) Annual Meeting, Glasgow – Poster Presentation.
• Marshall M, van der Windt D, Nicholls EE, Dziedzic KS. (September 2008) Determining patterns of radiographic hand osteoarthritis in a community-dwelling population of adults aged 50 years and over using factor analysis. Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) 2008 World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Rome - Poster Presentation.               
• Marshall M, van der Windt D, Myers H, Nicholls EE, Dziedzic KS. (September 2008) The relationship between radiographic sub-groups of hand osteoarthritis, and pain and function in a community-dwelling population of adults aged 50 years and over. Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) 2008 World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Rome - Poster Presentation.                         
• Marshall M, Dziedzic KS, Nicholls EE, Myers HL, Hay EM. (May 2007) Radiographic presentation of osteoarthritis of the thumb. British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) Annual Meeting, Birmingham – Oral Presentation.
• Marshall M, Dziedzic KS, Hay EM. (December 2006) Defining radiographic hand osteoarthritis in population-based epidemiology – a systematic search and narrative review. Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) 2006 World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Prague - Poster Presentation.