@WGDixon

Digital epidemiologist at the University of Manchester. Rheumatologist at Salford Royal.

 Stockport, Greater Manchester
manchester.ac.uk/research/will.dixon/personaldetails
Joined May 2011
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The start of an exciting day of results for the @CloudyPain study
BBC Breakfast
@BBCBreakfast24 Oct 2019
Today's forecast: Cloudy with a chance of...pain?! 🌦🤒 Researchers at @OfficialUoM have been looking into the link between the weather and pain experienced by people with long-term health conditions. This is what they found ⬇️
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BSR@RheumatologyUK29 Aug 2024
We're carrying out a survey for to understand current practice around writing clinic letters. We invite all NHS/HSC healthcare professionals to share their views. We're really keen to capture a wide range of opinions, from across the MDT in rheumatology. bit.ly/W2Phcpsurvey
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Now it's the turn of #rheumatology #HealthcareProfessionals in the #UK to share your views and current practice on #ClinicLetter writing This @RheumatologyUK funded survey is open to all #doctors #nurses #AHPs #pharmacists 👀bit.ly/W2Phcpsurvey Please share!
Dr Rebecca Goulding@RGouldingUoM11 Jul 2024
Rheumatology MDT members: Do you conduct #Rheumatology outpatient consultations in the UK NHS/HSC? If so, we want to know what you think about writing clinic letters directly to patients. To complete our survey, or for more information, please visit: bit.ly/W2Phcpsurvey
Advert for the 'Writing to patients from rheumatology' healthcare professional survey. Includes the weblink and the team's contact details. Rebecca Goulding, Research Associate: rebecca.goulding@manchester.ac.uk and Charlotte Sharp, Consultant Rheumatologist: charlotte.sharp@manchester.ac.uk

ALT Advert for the 'Writing to patients from rheumatology' healthcare professional survey. Includes the weblink and the team's contact details. Rebecca Goulding, Research Associate: [email protected] and Charlotte Sharp, Consultant Rheumatologist: [email protected]

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New paper ✨: We obtained hospital electronic health records from >50k patients post orthopaedic & major surgery to assess inpatient opioid use, to describe current practices & determine future opportunities for safer prescribing journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Postoperative opioids administered to inpatients with major or orthopaedic surgery: A retrospective...

Background Opioids administered in hospital during the immediate postoperative period are likely to influence post-surgical outcomes, but inpatient prescribing during the admission is challenging to...

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Researchers at @OfficialUoM are to trial a system that allows people living with rheumatoid #arthritis to send their daily symptoms securely to their health record, in a first for the NHS. 🔗 manchester.ac.uk/discover/ne… @VersusArthritis | @NIHRresearch
A closeup of a person using a mobile phone. The screen shows a symptom tracker app.

ALT A closeup of a person using a mobile phone. The screen shows a symptom tracker app.

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Interested in learning more about wearables in large-scale biomedical studies? We're running a residential short course from 22 - 26 September at Oxford Includes: inspirational speakers, great tutors, and hands-on data analysis. conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/mach…
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Don’t miss the inaugural Health Research from Home monthly webinar on 3 July. It’s your chance to learn more about a new MRC-funded population health research community using #smartphones and #wearables. Book now - zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
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First steps towards providing care at the right time for people living with #RA. Small exploratory analysis of predicting flares using daily tracked symptom data from the REMORA study @JGandrupMD @TeaStats formative.jmir.org/2024/1/e5…

Classifying Self-Reported Rheumatoid Arthritis Flares Using Daily Patient-Generated Data From a...

Background: The ability to predict rheumatoid arthritis (RA) flares between clinic visits based on real-time, longitudinal patient-generated data could potentially allow for timely interventions to...

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📣New paper today in @ARD_BMJ Development of a text analytics algorithm for automated application of national #COVID shielding criteria Example of how an #NLP based- algorithm can complement practice & could improve transparency of shielding decisions ard.bmj.com/content/early/20…
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A new post-doc job in the REMORA team studying digital inclusion within a multi-site trial of remote monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis. Come and join an ambitious, dynamic and fun team
Caroline Sanders@carolin_sanders28 Mar 2024
Still time to apply to work with our brilliant team on digital inclusion😊… The University of Manchester - Job Information | Apply for Digital Inclusion Post Graduate Researcher jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/Jo…

Digital Inclusion Post Graduate Researcher :Manchester

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🚀#NorthInnovationWomen Ginny Mitchell, Jigsaw programme Research Project Administrator, @OfficialUoM Ginny is calm & collected & a key contributor to the smooth running of a complex research programme. Very dependable & capable💡. @N8research @The_NHSA @WGDixon #InspireInclusion
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📢#NorthInnovationWomen Dr Deb Griffiths-Jones (@DebGriffJ), REMORA2 Programme Manager, @OfficialUoM Deb is a SuperWoman & the REMORA trial couldn't be delivered without her! She's positive, has great work ethic & knows her stuff. @WGDixon @The_NHSA @N8research #InspireInclusion
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🌎❓How are summaries of #Rheumatology outpatient clinics communicated to patients in #Europe❓ 🌎 cc= copied to GP = primary care doctor Pt = patient ⚕️✍🏼 ✉️ 🖥️ ✅🗳️Please VOTE! ✅🗳️ And comment 🗣️🔊below ⏰Closes 20:00 CET Fri 19 Jan
28%Letter to patient cc GP
56%Letter to GP cc patient
6%Notes viewed in pt portal
10%No communication
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Are you a #rheumatology #HealthcareProfessional (HCP) working in #NorthernIreland? We need you! 🫵🏼 😀 We're looking for a #NI site lead to help -recruit #PatientPartner -advertise HCP survey -recruit 3-4 patients + HCPs for interview study Pls reply if interested + RT 📢
Dr Charlotte Sharp@sharpcharlotte2 Nov 2023
Replying to @sharpcharlotte
Exploring current practice and supporting rheumatology professionals (HCPs) to write outpatient clinic letters direct to patients ⭐️Surveys patients+professionals ⭐️Interviews + focus groups patients+HCPs ⭐️Co-producing resources to support HCPs to write directly to patients 2/3
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The University of Manchester has appointed Professor @DuncanIvison as its next President & Vice-Chancellor. He will formally take up his role on 1st August 2024.

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⭐️JOB ADVERT KLAXON⭐️ #Qualitative Research Associate working on #WritingToPatients project @FBMH_UoM funded by @RheumatologyUK Apply ✍️ by 9 Nov: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/intern… 1/3

Qualitative Research Associate: Writing to Patients:Manchester

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Need persuading re importance of supporting ppl with #RheumatoidArthritis to self-examine for tender / swollen joints? 🦵🏿 Listen👂to @StanilandK @drdavidliew & I discuss this in latest #RAP podcast on 👀 Video: bit.ly/3rlYZTQ 🤓 Paper: academic.oup.com/rheumap/art… 1/2....
Rheumatology & Rheumatology Advances in Practice@RheumJnl12 Oct 2023
How can people with #RheumatoidArthritis examine their own joints? In this episode of #TalkingRheumResearch, @sharpcharlotte and @StanilandK talk to @drdavidliew about creating a video to teach patients how to self-examine tender and swollen joints 💪 bit.ly/46I4jWl
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Are you a Programme Manager? Skilled & experienced but want to make a difference? NEW POST to help lead 'Health Research from Home', a national partnership around the use of smartphones and wearables for health research. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/Jo… @OfficialUoM @The_MRC @HDR_UK

Programme Manager (Strategic Partnership Lead):Oxford Road

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Congrats to @WGDixon for securing a partnership grant with @The_MRC for “Health Research from Home”🩺! The grant will advance #populationhealth #research using #smartphones & #wearables with collaborators from @HDR_UK and more👨‍💼. Read about his research: research.manchester.ac.uk/en…
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More inspirational work from @pearsekeane and colleagues, combining innovative NHS data including 1.6M retinal images with AI modeling for accurate eye disease detection, prognosis and prediction of systemic disease. Then they go and make it open source. Will be transformative.
Pearse Keane@pearsekeane13 Sep 2023
1/ 🚨🚨 New paper alert 🚨🚨 Introducing RETFound, a foundation model for ophthalmology We’re super excited about this and hope it will act as a #Cornerstone for global efforts to prevent blindness through #AI @UCLeye @Moorfields #OpenAccess @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images

Nature - RETFound, a foundation model for retinal images that learns generalizable representations from unlabelled images, is trained on 1.6 million unlabelled images by self-supervised...

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Congratulations COVID shielding stories! Our inclusivity winner co-produced research to understand the impact of the COVID shielding process on people living with arthritis and auto-immune disease @FBMH_UoM @sharpcharlotte @lynn_laidlaw @WGDixon @carolin_sanders
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