Meet the research team

Andrew Moore

Andrew is a qualitative methodologist and health services researcher. As Chief Investigator of INFORM: EP he led the development and implementation of the INFORM guidelines and previously conducted the qualitative studies on the original INFORM programme. He has a special interest in the management of osteoarthritis and improving patient outcomes and wellbeing after orthopaedic surgery.

Andrew is a Member of the Versus Arthritis Research Expert Committee, co-director of the Bristol Bone and Joints Health Integration Team, and Chair of the Bone and Joint Infection Society (BAJIS) Research Committee.

Email: a.j.moore@bristol.ac.uk

Ashley Blom

Professor Ashley Blom is the Vice-President (Health) at the University of Sheffield and a non-executive director of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

He is a practising Orthopaedic surgeon, an NIHR Senior Investigator and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. 

Michael Whitehouse

Michael is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at North Bristol Trust where he undertakes secondary and tertiary referral joint replacements. He is a also a Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics at the University of Bristol as well being the Theme Co-Lead for Surgical and Orthopaedic Innovation at the Bristol Biomedical Research Centre.

His research interests are focussed on knees and hips; improving current medical practices as well as patient well-being both pre- and post-surgery. 

Andrew Beswick

Andrew is a Research Fellow at the Musculoskeletal Research Unit. His early research interests included large epidemiological studies.

For the last ten years he has conducted systematic reviews in rehabilitation and other health related areas. Current research relates to joint replacement, particularly knee and hip replacements as well as the patient journey throughout them.  

Nicola Walsh

Nicola is an academic physiotherapist specialising in primary care and musculoskeletal health, with a particular interest in how research is used and implemented in healthcare. She currently leads a research team at UWE Bristol, and is theme lead for Integrated and Optimal Care in NIHR ARC West.

Nicola is the academic lead for the Impact Accelerator Unit (IAU) in NHS Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire ICB. The role of the IAU is to expedite the use of evidence in decision making, service design and commissioning and delivery of healthcare to improve patient outcomes and service efficiencies.

Vikki Wylde

Vikki Wylde is a health services researcher and Professor of Musculoskeletal Health at the University of Bristol. Her research interests are focussed on improving the health and well-being of people living with chronic musculoskeletal conditions and optimising patients’ outcomes and experiences of joint replacement surgery.

Cat Jameson

Cat is a Senior Research Associate in Patient and Community Involvement and Engagement. She makes sure that patients have a say in the research that is done.

Cat has worked closely with the members of the INFORM EP PPI group since 2021 to support them to give their points of view on the INFORM EP guidelines. She helped to make videos with two members of the group and family members about what it’s like to go through joint infection after replacement.

As well as working on INFORM EP, Cat helps other patients and members of the public have their views heard and does a lot of work with people from minoritised communities.

Erik Lenguerrand

Erik is a medical statistician and quantitative epidemiologist aiming to provide robust quantitative evidence that will inform best clinical practices. He has a particular interest in orthopaedic and obstetrics research.

Erik was responsible for one of the work packages of the NIHR INFORM research programme investigating prosthesis joint infection using the National Joint Registry and the Hospital Episode Statistics databases. He was also in charge of the methodological elements of the INFORM trial.

Erik is a member of the scientific committee of BAJIR, the Bone and Joint Infection Registry.

Setor Kunutsor

Setor is currently an Associate Professor in Cardiometabolic Epidemiology in the Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester. He has an honorary Senior Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis role in the Musculoskeletal Research Unit (MRU), Bristol Medical School, having previously worked in the unit for 8 years.

Setor is a clinical epidemiologist who has expertise and several years of experience in evidence synthesis methods. In his evidence synthesis role in the MRU, Setor helped inform the application of optimum management strategies for the management of adverse outcomes following orthopaedic surgery.

Setor also led the establishment of the first global database of individual participant data of existing cohorts on the treatment of prosthetic joint infection.

Rachael Gooberman-Hill

Rachael is a Professor of Health and Anthropology as well as Director of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research. She is committed to supporting multi-disciplinary and cross-faculty research with a focus on areas of strategic importance and growth potential.

Rachael participates in several research committees and partnerships to aide in the delivery of research both within the UK and globally.

Cecily Palmer

Dr Cecily Palmer is a qualitative health services researcher. Her work is focussed on exploring and understanding lay peoples’ and health professionals’ experiences relating to health services and the care they deliver. Cecily is also interested in using qualitative evaluation to build in-depth understanding of health services and interventions in context and from multiple stakeholder viewpoints, to support achievement of their intended aims.

Cecily is currently working on the HIPPY study, using qualitative methods to explore choices and decision-making in relation to implants used in Total Hip Replacement surgery, and undertaking an embedded qualitative study to support recruitment into the national HIPPY randomised clinical trial.