A clinical masterclass on painful neuropathies

David is Professor of Neurology, Head of the Division of Clinical Neurology at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Oxford University Hospitals. His research and clinical interests include peripheral neuropathy, neuropathic pain and pain channelopathies. He leads major research consortia in this area including the EU initiative DOLORisk and UK research and innovation funded PAINSTORM. He is a Wellcome Investigator. He takes a broad experimental approach to understanding the pathogenesis and improving the management of neuropathic pain ranging from human genetics and ion channel biology to clinical trials. He completed neurology training in London and moved to the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Oxford in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. 

Fiona is best known as one of BBC Radio’s longest serving presenters where she has worked across most of Radio 3’s programmes from the Proms live from the Royal Albert Hall, to the award winning Late Junction; on Radio 4 her programmes have included features about Virginia Woolf and for BBC 6 Music she’s reported on music from frozen lakes. Fiona has also curated concerts and festivals for venues including the Royal Opera House, Kings Place, Oxford Contemporary Music and St George’s Bristol. She has worked extensively in Norway for over 20 years presenting, hosting and curating concert series and festivals including the National Jazz Stage in Oslo and the Punkt Festival in Kristiansand. In 2009 she was awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit for her services to the arts.

Fiona has an MA in Literature and the Visual Arts from Reading University and has been a research adviser with Birmingham City University. She is currently a Patient Partner with PAINSTORM bringing her long term lived experiences with Peripheral Neuropathy to assist in this important research project. Fiona is committed to researching the use of the arts to explore ways of expressing and communicating pain.

Solomon Tesfaye is a Consultant Physician/Endocrinologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Honorary Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Sheffield, UK. He qualified as a doctor at the University of Bristol in 1984 and trained in diabetes and diabetic neuropathy under Professor JD Ward. His research projects include the epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis, central nervous system involvement and treatment of diabetic neuropathy and neuropathic pain. He has published a book, over 150 original articles, reviews and book chapters in the field of diabetic neuropathy including a landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine. He has received research funding from Diabetes UK, the US National Institute of Health (NIH), Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes and the UK National Institute for Health Research.  

Andrew S.C. Rice is a clinical academic active in clinical practice and translational research elucidating neuropathic pain. He is Professor of Pain Research at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant in Pain Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. Andrew’s research on neuropathic pain and covers both laboratory and clinical research spanning animal models, through deep profiling of patients with a view to personalised medicine, to clinical trials and evidence synthesis by meta-analysis. The emphasis is on neuropathic pain in the context of infectious diseases (HIV, Herpes Zoster, HTLV-1 and leprosy), diabetic neuropathy and peripheral nerve trauma, especially in a military context. He has published over 230 peer reviewed papers and has a citation (H) index of 60.