MAB - List of members

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Below is a current list of the members of FMA UK's Medical Advisory Board,

Name	Occupation/Qualification
Colin Beevor	Matron Trauma Orthopaedics and Rheumatology & Rheumatology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Dr Robert Bennett MD, FRCP	Professor of Medicine, USA
Dr Ernest Choy MD FRCP	Ernest joined the FMA UK Medical Advisory Board (MAB) in August 2007 and is a valuable asset to our Association. Ernest is Consultant Rheumatologist and Reader in Rheumatology in the Academic Department of Rheumatology, King’s College London. He is also Director of the Sir Alfred Baring Garrod Clinical Trials Unit. His major research interest is the treatment of rheumatic diseases focusing on the efficacy of new treatment strategies. Dr Choy is currently chairman of the Arthritis Research Campaign Clinical Trials Collaboration that funds multi-centre clinical trials in rheumatic diseases in the UK. He is also a member of the European League Against Rheumatism Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic Trials. Dr Choy chairs the European League Against Rheumatism Taskforce on developing recommendations for management and classification criteria for fibromyalgia. He is co-chairman of the International Working Group on standardising outcome measures that should be used in clinical trials in fibromyalgia. Dr Choy has served as expert advisor to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in the UK and many pharmaceutical companies. He has published widely on treatments for rheumatic diseases in major medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine. He is a frequent lecturer on the treatment of rheumatic diseases.
Dr Alan Edwards	Allergy Specialist
Dr Moira Henderson	Medical Adviser for the Department for Work and Pensions. Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and the Chief Examiner for the Faculty’s Diploma in Disability Assessment Medicine
Anne Johnson	Acting head of occupational therapy.
Dr Kim Lawson BTech (Hons)., PhD	Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, Sheffield Hallam University Kim has broad experience of Drug Discovery Research, gained in both multinational pharmaceutical industries and academia. National and international recognition for his work in fibromyalgia and in potassium channel pharmacology resulting in regular invitations as a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry & affiliated organisations, to talk at public events & scientific conferences and to write expert opinion articles for scientific journals. Current research projects include 'Fibromyalgia: diagnostic and therapeutic approaches' and 'Neuropathic pain and potassium channels'. Kim has published in excess of 70 publications in international scientific journals and has also been invited to contribute to media articles. Kim is a Member of the European Network of Fibromyalgia Associations.
Kathy Longley BSc (HONS)	Graduate in Molecular & Cellular Biology
Phillipa Newton-Cross	Senior physiotherapist & clinical lead in FM
Alice Theadom BSc, MSc, C.Physchol	Research Fellow and Chartered Health Psychologist at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School Alice has been involved in psychological research into fibromyalgia syndrome for over 5 years. Her particular interests lie in the effect of sleep on fibromyalgia symptoms and how patients adjust to their diagnosis and self manage their condition. Alice is actively working on involving patients with fibromyalgia syndrome on developing research proposals. Working within a thriving medical school Alice has been asked to present on fibromyalgia syndrome at research seminars for local general practitioners and at international and national conferences. Alice has co-written several publications including "Dysfunctional beliefs, stress and sleep disturbance in fibromyalgia syndrome", "Exploring the Role of Sleep and Coping on Quality of Life in fibromyalgia", "Pilot study of a 4-week pain coping strategies (PCS) programme for the chronic pain patient" and "Unraveling the mystery, illness perceptions, coping and pain in fibromyalgia syndrome". Current research includes "Effects of guided relaxation on sleep and quality of life in people with fibromyalgia syndrome" and "The role of sleep in fibromyalgia syndrome; a qualitative study". Several local support groups have taken part in Alice’s research.
Mr Marcus Vaz BSc(Hons) Ost.	Osteopath
Jean Turner	MAB Co-ordinator and FMA UK Trustee