Rheumatology: Current Research
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D Morrissey

Biography

Dr Morrissey has over 20 years experience of working in sports and exercise medicine. He completed an MSc at University College London in 1998 and a PhD in 2005 at King’s College London. He is now a consultant physiotherapist and senior clinical lecturer in sports and musculoskeletal physiotherapy at Bart's and the London NHS trust / BL School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL. He leads a unique intercalated BSc in sports and exercise medicine and the MSc modules relating to sports injury assessment, and runs the Human Performance Laboratory. He has gained more than £2m in research funding, with the majority as first applicant, and has authored more than 30 peer reviewed full papers. His main research interests are tendinopathy, evidence translation and the link between movement and pathology. His current passion is paralympic sport, and he is a headquarters physiotherapist for London 2012.

Research Interest

Inflammation, Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology

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