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Professor Dylan Morrissey

Dylan

Consultant Physiotherapist and Professor of Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy

Centre: Academic lead, Sports and Exercise Medicine

Email: d.morrissey@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 7941710273

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ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7045-3644
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Hello there, thank you for visiting. My name is Dylan Morrissey and I am a Consultant Physiotherapist and Professor of Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at Bart's and the London NHS trust / Barts and the London Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

** Currently looking to recruit PhD students, especially those with fellowships who wish to work on relevant clinical doctorates. **

I am academic lead for Sports and Exercise Medicine (SEM) at QMUL, comprising an inter-disciplinary team of 16 people. 

My career goal is to combine the best of educational, research and clinical practice to develop, disseminate and deliver step-changes in care for musculoskeletal conditions.

A key research theme is developing Best Practice Guides to the management of common musculoskeletal conditions. Tendinopathy is a key area of expertise. I am privileged to lead an academic team that delivers the oldest MSc programme in SEM in the world, one of the largest intercalated BSc programmes at QMUL and an inter-disciplinary cadre of doctoral students. Developing artificial intelligence to support clinical reasoning, and digital solutions to improve care is an expanding avenue of work. To those ends, I have gained more than £16m in research funding, with a third as lead applicant, and authored ~ 160 peer-reviewed full papers.

Leadership of research ethics at QMUL enables me to scratch my human rights itch.

My enduring passion is clinical physiotherapy with working in Paralympic Sport being a career privilege, while leading specialist centres for dance and tendon injury rehabilitation is my daily contribution.

Research

Summary

My overarching career objective as a clinical academic is to combine the best of educational, clinical and research practice in order to develop and deliver high-quality evidence-based physiotherapy for patients with musculoskeletal disorders. The link between movement and pathology, tendinopathy, clinical reasoning, digital innovation and education are particular interests.

Group members

Research staff:
•    Dr Bradley Neal – Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow 
•    Dr Rodrigo Rabello Da Silva (PPEF funded)
•    Dr Faziza Sharif (PPEF funded)
•    Ms Adele Hill (Doctoral research fellow)
•    Ms Ricarda Tillmann (Doctoral research fellow)
•    Mr Josh Cosgrove (CRN and CSP funded fellow) 
•    Dr Jose Inacio Salles Neto (Senior Research Fellow)

Current PhD students 

  1. (1st supervisor) Tobias Bremer: p-t  (Self and grant funded) Jan 2018 start: to study ‘Outcome predictors for lateral hip pain’.  
  2. (2nd supervisor) Amy Dowse: (EPSRC funded) to study: Mobile Health Technology for Patients Suffering with Anxiety and Chronic Pain.
  3. (jt 1st supervisor) Fatma Bosnina: (Libyan government funded F-T). Started Apr 2021 to study The Diagnostic Criteria for Exercise-Induced leg pain.
  4. (1st supervisor) Adele Hill: (Barts Charity funded) to study Decision support for low back pain.
  5. (1st supervisor) Ricarda Tillmann: (Barts Charity funded) to study dance interventions to increase physical activity in young people with cerebral palsy
  6. (1st supervisor) Merve Bodur (Turkish government funded) to sudy Biomechanical predictors of outcome. 

Completed PhD students

  1. (jt 1st supervisor) Dr Saira Chaudhry: 2008-2012: (funded by Lahore University) to study: ‘Biomechanical modelling of eccentric and concentric loading of the triceps surae complex’. Became a lecturer at QMUL.
  2. (1st supervisor) Dr Victoria Tzortziou-Brown OBE: 2010-2016 p-t: (funded by an ARUK educational research fellowship) to study Professional interventions for musculoskeletal conditions. Now an NIHR ASCL at QMUL.
  3. (1st supervisor) Dr Paulina Kloskowska: 2012-2016: (Self and grant funded) ‘The biomechanical determinants of sports related groin pain in athletes.’ Now senior lecturer at Kings College London
  4. (1st supervisor) Dr Colm Daly: 2011-2016 p-t: (Self and grant funded) to study ‘Biomechanical factors associated with previous hamstring injury in high level sprinting athletes’. Now clinical scientist in his native Ireland.
  5. (1st supervisor) Dr Simon Lack: 2012-2017 p-t: (Self and grant funded) to study ‘The interaction of hip and foot biomechanics in the presentation and management of patellofemoral pain’. Now senior lecturer at QMUL.
  6. (2nd supervisor) Dr Chineye Princess Udeze: 2013-2017, (ORS funded) to study ‘The role of high frequency loading in the treatment of tendinopathy’.  Now in industry.
  7. (1st supervisor) Dr Jack Shih-Fan Tu: 2013-2017 (Self and grant funded) to study ‘Effects and Mechanisms of Kinesio-taping for Low Back Pain’. Now a post-doc at Oxford university.
  8. (jt 1st supervisor) Dr Bairu Zhang: 2014-2018 (Principal’s fellowship) to study ‘Functional Data Analysis in Orthogonal Designs with Applications to Gait Patterns’. Now in the pharmaceutical industry.
  9. (1st supervisor) Dr Brad Neal: 2014-2019 p-t: (Self and grant funded) to study ‘The role of running re-education in the management of Patellofemoral Pain’. Now a lecturer at the University of Essex.
  10. (1st supervisor) Dr Halime Gulle: 2017-2021, funded by a full Turkish government scholarship to study ‘Outcome predictors for plantar heel pain’.  Now a post-doc with Dr Irene Davis in Florida.
  11. (1st supervisor) Dr Abdulhamit Tayfur: 2017-2021 funded by a full Turkish government scholarship to study ‘Outcome predictors for Patellar Tendinopathy’.  Now an academic in Istanbul.
  12. (1st supervisor) Dr Mehmet Delen: 2017-2021 funded by a full Turkish government scholarship to study ‘Outcome predictors for Shoulder rotator cuff pathology’.  Now an academic in Ankara.
  13. (2nd supervisor) Dr Gamalendira Shivapatham: 2018-2022 (HBLB funded) ‘Development of slip-plane elastography’ now a Senior Clinical Scientist
  14. (2nd supervisor) Dr Beyza Tayfur: 2018 – 2022 funded by a full Turkish government scholarship to study Neuromuscular and Biomechanical Markers of Early Post-traumatic Knee OA.
  15. (1st supervisor) Dr Igor Sancho Amundarian: 2016 - 2023. Biomechanics of Achilles tendinopathy. Now a lecturer in San Sebastian.
  16. (2nd supervisor) Dr Saleh Al-Saleh: (Saudi government funded). Started Sep 2018 – submitted Dec 2022 to study The Effects and Mechanisms of Rehabilitation Interventions for Patellofemoral Pain.
  17. (1st supervisor) Dr Anna Hebda-Boon: p-t (Self and grant funded). Sep 2017 start: to study ‘Improving physiotherapists’ gait analysis of children with cerebral palsy’.
  18. (co-supervisor) Dr Rodrigo Rabello: 2020-2024 f-t (Italian Government Funded). At QMUL from Jan 2023-Sep 2023 as visiting student to study "Factors influencing functional tasks for the assessment of biomechanics". Now a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with me at QMUL
  19. (1st supervisor) Dr Cabella Lowe: (Industry funded) 2020-2025  PT To study Digital triage of musculoskeletal conditions
  20. (2nd supervisor) Dr Rebecca Phillips: (NHMRC funded) to study Rehabilitation adherence   
    In progress 

 

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    Teaching

    I am privileged to lead an academic team of 14 and deliver the oldest MSc programme in SEM in the world, the largest intercalated BSc at QMUL and an inter-disciplinary cadre of doctoral students.

    Intercalated BSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine, Queen Mary University of London

    MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine, Queen Mary University of London

    Disclosures

    • Occasional funding to travel to, and present at, academic meetings. 
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