Biography
Diana obtained her degree in Mechanical Engineering and her PhD in solid state gyroscopes from the University of Hertfordshire (UH). Diana has 30 patents granted on solid state sensors and more recently on medical applications relating to the use of these sensors. In 2000 Diana was awarded an MBE for services to SMEs in the region and in 2002 she won the Women Inventor of the Year Award for Industry. In 2005 Diana was awarded an Honorary doctorate from the UH for services to innovation. In 1995 Diana and her husband established their own business, ETB and in 2009 ETB launched their sensor based gait monitoring product, GaitSmart. This is now a world leading product used in wide range of medical and sports applications around the world. One of the sectors where it is applied is orthopaedics and a number of papers have been published on this topic. Diana is currently a visiting professor at the UH and helped to establish a new MEng course in Biomedical Engineering and in 2014 was awarded Alumni of the year at the UH.
Research Interest
Diana has a strong research interest in developing tools to improve diagnosis of hip and knee OA and to improve the functional outcomes of those people who have received a hip or knee joint replacement.
Biography
I have established a very strong research program over the past 40 years concerning the interplay between biological and behavioral factors that influence persistent pain in persons with rheumatologic illnesses. The overall goal of this work, continuously supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1989, is to use clinical and basic science methods to enhance our understanding of individual differences in persistent pain and lead to improved management of pain and related health outcomes. For example, during the past 6 years, our collaboration with colleagues at the University of Florida has documented reliable differences between African American and non-Hispanic white persons with knee osteoarthritis (OA) in response to noxious heat, pressure, and cold stimuli. We and our colleagues have begun to examine how psychosocial and biologic variables (e.g., sleep disturbance, imaging of brain structure and function, pain biomarkers) contribute to ethnic variations in knee OA pain at baseline and change in these variables and pain during a 2-year follow-up period. We anticipate our work will lead to substantial new findings and better understanding of individual differences in pain among persons with knee OA.
Research Interest
His research interests are rheumatologic illnesses, knee osteoarthritis, sleep disturbance, imaging of brain structure and function, pain biomarkers.
Biography
Dr. Pablo Herrero has completed his PhD in Physiotherapy at Zaragoza University, with European Mention after Research Stage at Keele University. He is Vice Dean of the Physiotherapy Degree and Head of iPhysio Research Group at San Jorge University. Apart from international publications currently focused on dry needling, he is one of the researchers that developed 3TOOL, a new patented multifunctional device for myofascial trigger points and soft tissue treatment and self-treatment.
Research Interest
His research interest are Physiotherapy and Orthopedics