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Musculoskeletal Medicine Speakers
Our panel of expert speakers are evidence based, practical and inspirational.
Dr Elspeth Wise (London and Birmingham)
Dr Elspeth Wise is a salaried GP in Durham and also works in both hospital and community rheumatology clinics. She has recently completed an Arthritis Research Campaign Educational Fellowship looking at GP registrars' musculoskeletal education and is in the process of writing up her MD. Elspeth is hoping to develop a career in academic general practice.
Dr Stephen Longworth (London and Birmingham)
Dr Stephen Longworth has been a full time GP in Leicester for 24 years and also works as a Hospital Practitioner in the Orthopaedic Spine Clinic at Leicester General Hospital. He was the first GPSI in Musculoskeletal Medicine in Leicester. He is a Past President of the Primary Care Rheumatology Society, a tutor and examiner for the Diploma in Primary Care Rheumatology at the University of Bath and has a Masters Degree in Sport and Exercise Medicine. He is co-author of a book on joint and soft tissue injection techniques.
Ms Heidi Siddle (London)
Heidi Siddle is a Specialist Rheumatology Podiatrist in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, a position she has held for the past 9 years. She has been awarded an Arthritis Research Campaign AHP Training Fellowship and is now working as a Research Fellow within the Section of Musculoskeletal Disease at the University of Leeds studying for a PhD. As part of the training fellowship and her PhD, she is embarking on a formal training program to develop skills in diagnostic ultrasound imaging techniques which will be utilised to study the painful forefoot in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Dr Philip Helliwell (Birmingham)
After an initial degree in psychology and physiology, Dr Philip Helliwell qualified in 1972 at the University of Oxford. Dr Helliwell received specialist training in nuclear medicine before spending 5 years in primary care. He was appointed as a consultant rheumatologist in 1990, and to an academic post in 1996. His current research program includes clinical subgroups and diagnostic criteria for psoriatic arthritis and clinical and biomechanical studies of foot/ankle in musculoskeletal disorders.
Mr Paul Partington (London and Birmingham)
Mr Paul Partington graduated from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1987, and completed his basic and higher surgical training in the North East of England and Canada. He has been a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Northumbria since 1998. He has a keen interest in teaching and training and has been Training Programme Director for Trauma and Orthopaedics in the Northern Deanery for the last four years. Recently he was appointed to join the Specialist Advisory Committee for Trauma and Orthopaedics training. He is also the GP liaison representative for Trauma and Orthopaedics in the trust, including service development, referral triage and work on referral feedback. His clinical and research interests are adult hip and knee surgery, arthroplasty and arthroscopy, including hip arthroscopy.
Dr Peter Lanyon (Birmingham)
Dr Peter Lanyon qualified from Birmingham University in 1986, and initially trained in General Practice. However, this sparked his enthusiasm for musculoskeletal medicine, and he therefore decided to return to secondary care to re-train in Rheumatology. After completing research into the genetics of osteoarthritis, he was appointed to his current post of Consultant Rheumatologist at Queen’s Medical Campus, University Hospital in Nottingham in 1999, with a sub-specialty interest in multi-system inflammatory disease. He has retained strong links with Primary Care, and has also been a co-author and tutor for the Bath Diploma in Primary Care Rheumatology, as well as contributor to The Oxford Textbook of Medicine and Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine.
Dr Jonathan Greenwell (London and Birmingham)
Dr Greenwell qualified as a GP in February 2007 and has worked as a GP with a special interest in musculoskeletal medicine since qualification, having completed an MSK training post as a GP registrar along with an MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine.
He is currently completing his training in Sports and Exercise Medicine and as well as working in primary care is the team physician at Leeds Rhinos and Leeds Carnegie Rugby clubs.
Dr Richard Smith (London and Birmingham)
Dr Richard Smith is a Consultant Rheumatologist at Salisbury Hospital. He trained in London and, following that, spent a year at the New South Wales Institute of Sports Medicine. He runs a multidisciplinary musculoskeletal and sports medicine clinic every week. In his spare time he is doctor to the World's Strongest Man and Superstars tournaments.
