Human Pain Research Group

Members of the Human Pain Research Group: Prof Anthony Jones, Prof Tony Freemont, Prof Karina Lovell, Prof Gary MacFarlane, Dr Candy McCabe, Kate Ryan, Dr Alison Watson, Dr Christopher Brown, Dr Andrea Power, Tim Rainey , Dr Wael El-Deredy, Ann Lenton, Dr Dominic Itodo, Abeer AlMarzouki, Dr Minha Rajput-Ray, Dr Lloyd Gregory, Dr Richard Brown, Dr Donna Lloyd, Dr Yvonne Boyle and Dr Bhavna Kulkarni.

Group members based in the Photon Physics Group in the School of Physics and Astronomy: Prof Terry King and Dr Mark Dickinson.

For information about previous and current PhD students under the supervision of Prof Anthony Jones, please click here.

	Professor Anthony Jones, Group Leader Room C206 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4266 Email: anthony.jones@manchester.ac.uk Anthony's primary research interests are mechanisms of pain perception, and the treatment of musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. Click here for Professor Jones' full CV (pdf 225kB)
	Professor Tony Freemont, Professor of Osteoarticular Pathology Head of Research School, School of Clinical & Laboratory Sciences, University of Manchester. Tel: +44 (0)161 275 5269 or +44 (0)161 275 5272 Email: Tony.Freemont@manchester.ac.uk Weblink: Click here for a detailed profile of Professor Tony Freemont Tony has a research programme examining the pathology associated with musculoskeletal pain. Using state-of-the-art in situ tissue molecular profiling techniques he has been able to visualise nociceptive nerves and to relate these to sites of pain provocation in the human intervertebral disc. He is currently working to identify stimuli of nociceptive nerve growth in the intervertebral disc and to develop novel strategies for treating pain in connective tissues.
	Professor Karina Lovell, Professor of Mental Health School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work, University of Manchester. Tel: +44 (0) 161 306 7853 Email: Karina.Lovell@manchester.ac.uk Weblink: Click here for a detailed profile of Professor Karina Lovell Karina trained as a Mental Health Nurse, completed a course in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and then worked in various clinical NHS positions. She completed a BA, MSc and PhD part time and in 1998, moved from London to Manchester and commenced work at the University of Manchester as a lecturer. She is past president of the BABCP, fellow of EANs and a patron of the National Phobic Society. Karina's main research interests are: 1. Development, evaluation and testing of new accessible, effective and acceptable ways of delivering psychological interventions for common Mental Health problems, 2. Developing, testing and evaluating innovative approaches to service delivery and organisation of Primary Mental Health care.
	Professor Gary MacFarlane, Professor of Epidemiology and Deputy Head of the Institute of Applied Health Sciences Honorary Professor of Epidemiology, University of Manchester. Epidemiology Group, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Aberdeen. Tel: + 44 (0) 1224 550925 Email: g.j.macfarlane@abdn.ac.uk Weblink: Click here for a detailed profile of Professor Gary MacFarlane
	Dr John McBeth, Senior Lecturer ARC Epidemiology Unit, School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester. Tel: +44 (0)161 275 5788 Email: john.mcbeth@manchester.ac.uk Weblink: Click here for a detailed profile of Dr John McBeth John's research interests include population studies aimed at identifying risk factors for the onset and outcome of common musculoskeletal disorders.
	Dr Candy McCabe, Consultant Nurse and Honorary ARC Senior Lecturer School of Nursing, University of Manchester. Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath. School for Health, University of Bath. Tel: +44 (0)1225 465941 ext 349 or +44 (0) 1225 386259 Email: C.McCabe@bath.ac.uk Weblink: Click here for a detailed profile of Dr Candy McCabe
	Dr Wael El-Deredy, Senior Lecturer Room C201 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4528 Email: Wael.El-Deredy@Manchester.ac.uk Wael is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He also works part-time within our research group. Wael is working on the development of signal processing tools for the analysis of brain dynamics in neuroimaging data.
	Kate Ryan, Group Secretary Room C204 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4265 Email: kate.ryan@manchester.ac.uk
	Dr Alison Watson, Research Fellow Room C201 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4529 Email: alison.watson@manchester.ac.uk Alison's research interests include analgesia, and the differential effects of opiates on the medial and lateral pain systems.
	Dr Christopher Brown, Research Associate Room C202 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4528 Email: christopher.brown@manchester.ac.uk Christopher is being funded by the MRC to research the role of the brain's natural painkillers (opioids) in chronic pain. He has recently investigated the therapeutic effects and brain correlates of a mindfulness-based pain management programme in chronic pain. He is also interested in anticipation of pain the role of expectations and attention have on how pain is experienced in patients and healthy volunteers.
	Dr Andrea Power, Research Assistant Room C201 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4259 Email: andrea.power@manchester.ac.uk
	Tim Rainey , Research Technician Room C201 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 0205 Email: timothy.rainey@manchester.ac.uk
	Ann Lenton, Research Nurse Room C201 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4529 Email: Ann.Lenton@Manchester.ac.uk
	Dr Dominic R. Itodo MD/PhD Student Room C201 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4529 Email: Dominic.Itodo@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk Dominic's interests revolve around mechanisms of pain perception, analgesia and the role of synthetic opioids in acute-on-chronic pain.
	Abeer Almarzouki, MRes Student Room C202 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4528 Email: Abeer.Almarzouki@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
	Dr Minha Rajput-Ray, Clinical Fellow Room C202 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4528 Email: Minha.Rajput-Ray@manchester.ac.uk Minha is a Walport NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) in Rheumatology and is interested in developing generic clinical assessment tools for common musculoskeletal conditions which will provide useful information on patient quality of life, response to therapy and overall satisfaction with treatment.
	Dr Lloyd Gregory, R&D Lead Room D222 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 5832 Email: Lloyd.Gregory@manchester.ac.uk Lloyd's research interests focus on understanding the complex interactions of sensory, affective and cognitive components of the visceral pain neuromatrix and how they can be modulated by psychological and pharmacological means. This is of particular clinical relevance to understanding the pathophysiological mechanisms that underpin functional gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and non-cardiac chest pain. Much of Lloyd's research involves the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques. However, his current role now enables him to forge new research collaborations that utilise magnetic resonance imaging in order to translate clinical questions into imaging science.
	Dr Richard Brown, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology Division of Clinical Psychology Tel: +44 (0)161 306 0424 Email: richard.james.brown@manchester.ac.uk Richard's primary research interests are in medically unexplained illness, particularly the somatoform and dissociative disorders. His main focus is the cognitive basis of somatization and dissociation, as well as the development and assessment of treatment techniques in this area. He is also interested in the cognitive basis of emotional disturbance more generally, particularly the role of attentional bias and dysfunction, worry and cognitive avoidance (e.g. motivated forgetting, thought suppression etc). In addition, he retains active interests in consciousness, executive function, hypnosis and suggestion.
	Dr Donna Lloyd, Lecturer in Psychology Tel: +44 (0)161 275 2573 Email: Donna.Lloyd@manchester.ac.uk Donna’s current research interests include: Peripersonal space and limb embodiment measured through the ‘rubber hand illusion’; Factors affecting human interpersonal space; Development of a paradigm for measuring somatic disturbance in clinical populations with medically unexplained symptoms; The neural correlates of speech-accompanying hand gestures in pain related talk; and Neural correlates of chronic low back pain and phantom limb pain investigated using fMRI.
	Dr Yvonne Boyle, Neurophysiologist Room C202 Tel: +44 (0)1223 296 150 Email: yvonne.x.boyle@gsk.com Yvonne is an honorary fellow with the Human Pain Research Group, and works at the Department of Exploratory Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline. Yvonne is treasurer for the new British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN).
	Dr Bhavna Kulkarni, Clinical Research Fellow Room C201 Tel: +44 (0)161 206 4529 Email: bhavna.kulkarni@manchester.ac.uk Bhavna's research interests include: Fibromyalgia and other musculoskeletal pain disorders, cortical processing of chronic pain, the functional division of pain within the brain, and neuroimaging using positron emission tomography (PET).