Contributors

Contributor Biography

My background is in medicine. I came to Oxford to do a doctorate in neuroimaging and anaesthetics on the effects of tumour necrosis factor inhibitors on pain-related brain activation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. For the past five years, I have lead the neuroimaging part of the “Can Shoulder Arthroscopy Work? (CSAW)” trial, which was a randomised clinical trial investigating the efficacy of shoulder decompression in shoulder impingement by comparing it to a placebo arthroscopy, and to a non-interventional group. I also analysed trial- and patient-level data from placebo-controlled surgical trials to investigate temporal changes in the placebo arm.