Will Dixon awarded Professorship of Digital Epidemiology

Will Dixon, the Director of the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, has recently been promoted to the position of Professor of Digital Epidemiology by the University of Manchester. Congratulations Professor Dixon!
As well as Professor Dixon’s post of Arthritis Research UK Centre Director, he is also project lead forCloudy with a chance of pain, which is the world's first smartphone-based study to investigate the association between pain and the weather. Participants candownload the app to their phone to record how they’re feeling, while local weather data is automatically collected using the phone's GPS. The researchers not only want to collect the information but also request the participants to help spot trends and patterns in the data as the project progresses, to try to determine links between pain and the weather.
Professor Dixon also leads on another Arthritis Research UK funded project‘REMORA’ in which researchers are working to develop a smartphone app which allows patients to log rheumatoid arthritis symptoms regularly between appointments. The information collected in this study will provide a source of data for other research questions that may lead to improved treatment for rheumatoid arthritis patients.
If you would like any further information about the above projects or any of the research we fund, please contact the research liaison team:[e-mail]

Source: Arthritis Research UK - September 21, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news