Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Overview
Will is a Professor of Digital Epidemiology, Director of the Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis at the University of Manchester and an honorary consultant rheumatologist at Salford Royal Hospital, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.
His research aims to address clinically important questions by analysing data from patient populations, with particular focus on digital health data. This includes the analysis of electronic health record data from GP surgeries and from hospitals (for example, examining the safety of drugs used in rheumatology) and the collection and analysis of data direct from patients using smartphones and wearables. Examples of innovative digital health research include Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, REMORA (Remote Monitoring of RA) and Assembling the Data Jigsaw.
Will chairs the Scientific Advisory Board for Our Future Health and is a member of MRC's Population and Systems Medicine Board.
Memberships of committees and professional bodies
- Fellow, Alan Turing Instutute
- British Society for Rheumatology
- International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
- Royal College of Physicians
Qualifications
- BSc (Physiology), The University of London, 1995
- MBBS, The University of London, 1997
- MRCP 2002
- MSc (Clinical Rheumatology), The University of Manchester, 2004
- PhD, The University of Manchester, 2008
- MSc (Pharmacoepidemiology), McGill University, Montreal, 2011
Teaching
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Scientific Advisory Board Chair, Our Future Health
Apr 2021 → …
Population & Systems Medicine Board (PSMB) Member, Medical Research Council (MRC)
1 Apr 2020 → …
External Examiner, Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacovigilance, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jul 2016 → Jul 2021
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Digital Futures
- Christabel Pankhurst Institute
Keywords
- Epidemiology
- Digital epidemiology
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Rheumatology
- Arthritis
- Drug safety
- mHealth
- eHealth
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Examining the variability of multiple daily symptoms over time among individuals with multiple long-term conditions (MLTC-M/multimorbidity): An exploratory analysis of a longitudinal smartwatch feasibility study
Kazi, K., Ali, S. M., Selby, D. A., McBeth, J., van der Veer, S. & Dixon, W. G., 18 Jan 2023, In: Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity. 13Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring the cross-cultural acceptability of digital tools for pain self-reporting: A qualitative study
Ali, S. M., Lee, R., Mcbeth, J., James, B., McAlister, S., Chiarotto, A., Dixon, W. & van der Veer, S., 8 Feb 2023, In: JMIR Human Factors . 10, e42177.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Feasibility and acceptability to use a smartphone-based manikin for daily longitudinal self-reporting of chronic pain
Ali, S. M., Selby, D., Bourke, D., Bravo, R., Chiarotto, A., Firth, J., James, B., Parker, B., Dixon, W. & van der Veer, S., 27 Jul 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Digital Health.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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High frequency of long-term opioid use among patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases initiating opioids for the first time
Huang, J., Jenkins, D. A., Peek, N., Dixon, W. & Jani, M., 13 Jul 2023, In: Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. 82, 8, p. 1116 1117 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
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How to self-examine for tender and swollen joints: Co-producing a training video for people with rheumatoid arthritis
Sharp, C., Staniland, K., Gandrup, J., Cornell, T. & Dixon, W., 1 Apr 2023, In: Rheumatology Advances in Practice . 7, Suppl 1, p. i6-i11 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Integrating hospital outpatient letters into the healthcare data space
Nenadic, G., Dixon, W. & Jani, M.
1/10/21 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
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Assembling the Data Jigsaw: Powering Robust Research on the Causes, Determinants and Outcomes of MSK Disease.
Dixon, W., Brown, B., Clarkson, P., Dowding, D., Holm, S., Humphreys, J. H., Jani, M., Mcbeth, J., Nenadic, G., Peek, N., Pendleton, N., Sanders, C. & Van Der Veer, S.
1/05/20 → 31/10/23
Project: Research
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NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester.
Cullum, N., Abel, K., Ainsworth, J., Arden Armitage, C., Bee, P., Bower, P., Bucci, S., Burden, S., Burns, A., Checkland, K., Dixon, W., Dowding, D., Dumville, J., French, D., Grande, G., Green, J., Griffiths, J., Hodgson, D., Keady, J., Kislov, R., Kontopantelis, E., Lovell, K., Meacock, R., Morciano, M., Munford, L., O'Neill, T., Peek, N., Pendleton, N., Sanders, C., Spooner, S., Stanmore, E., Sutton, M., Todd, C., Turner, S., Van Der Veer, S., Webb, R., Whittaker, W. & Wilson, P.
1/10/19 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
Prizes
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Outstanding Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year
Dixon, William (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Patients as Partners award winner, ‘Enabling Patients with Technology’
Dixon, William (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Boston University
William Dixon (Secondee)
12 Jul 2022 → 14 Jul 2022Activity: External visiting positions or secondments › Visiting an external academic institution
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Smartphones to support clinical care and research
William Dixon (Speaker)
5 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Are registers worth it?
William Dixon (Speaker)
Sept 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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The bionic patient: Technology supporting clinical care and research
William Dixon (Speaker)
2 Oct 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Technology to support clinical care and research
William Dixon (Speaker)
26 Sept 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Impacts
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Biologics registers for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: enhancing access to novel therapies and balancing drug safety concerns versus effectiveness
Kimme Hyrich (Participant), Ian Bruce (Participant), Christopher Griffiths (Participant), Richard Warren (Participant), Deborah Symmons (Participant), Darren Ashcroft (Participant), William Dixon (Participant), Mark Lunt (Participant), Zenas Yiu (Participant) & Louise Mercer (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing
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Improving treatment outcomes for patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Deborah Symmons (Participant), Alan Silman (Participant), Kimme Hyrich (Participant), Mark Lunt (Participant), William Dixon (Participant) & Suzanne Verstappen (Participant)
Impact: Health impacts, Societal impacts, Economic impacts
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REMORA as case study in NHSx's Rheumatology Digital Playbook
William Dixon (Participant)
Impact: Awareness and understanding, Technological, Health and wellbeing
Datasets
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Modelling and extraction of variability in free-text medication prescriptions from an anonymised primary care electronic medical record research database
Karystianis, G. (Contributor), Sheppard, T. (Contributor), Dixon, W. (Contributor) & Nenadic, G. (Contributor), figshare , 9 Feb 2016
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3632789.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/Modelling_and_extraction_of_variability_in_free-text_medication_prescriptions_from_an_anonymised_primary_care_electronic_medical_record_research_database/3632789/1
Dataset
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MedNorm: A Corpus and Embeddings for Cross-terminology Medical Concept Normalisation
Belousov, M. (Creator), Dixon, W. (Contributor) & Nenadic, G. (Contributor), Mendeley Data, 3 Jun 2019
DOI: 10.17632/b9x7xxb9sz.1, https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/b9x7xxb9sz
Dataset
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The Future of Patient-Generated Data for UK Health Research
Dixon, W. (Creator), Mcbeth, J. (Creator), Mackey, E. (Creator), Peek, N. (Creator), Van Der Veer, S. (Creator) & Ainsworth, J. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, 27 Jun 2022
DOI: 10.48420/20066132, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/report/The_Future_of_Patient-Generated_Data_for_UK_Health_Research/20066132
Dataset
Press/Media
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The Independent (& various media outlets): Up to one in three with rheumatoid arthritis at risk of long-term opioid use
Meghna Jani, Joyce (Yun-Ting) Huang, William Dixon, Niels Peek & David Jenkins
16/05/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Good Housekeeping: the use of smartphones for health research
19/07/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Various Media: Dramatic escalation in opioid use over a decade
15/10/20 → 23/10/20
6 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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The Times: Rise of the over-the-counter opioid addicts
20/10/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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WASHINGTON POST: No rain, no pain: Study links foul weather with body aches
28/05/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research