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Professor Rory J O'Connor

Professor Rory J O'Connor

  • Position: Charterhouse Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Areas of expertise: Rehabilitation Medicine; Rehabilitation Technologies; Rehabilitation Services Research; Vocational Rehabilitation; Outcome Measurement; Psychometrics; Long-term Conditions; Global Rehabilitation
  • Email: R.J.O'Connor@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: Academic Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Chapel Allerton Hospital
  • Website: ORCID

Profile

I am Charterhouse Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Head of the Academic Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Leeds. I am Deputy Director of the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine and the Director of Research and Innovation.

I am an honorary consultant physician in rehabilitation medicine and the lead clinician for rehabilitation at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. I am Deputy Clinical Director and lead for the Rehabilitation, Assistive and Restorative Technology theme of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in long-term conditions Devices for Dignity at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Responsibilities

  • Head of the Academic Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Director of Research and Innovation Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine
  • Deputy Director Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine

Research interests

I am a clinician scientist working in rehabilitation medicine. My principal research interests are in rehabilitation technology development, rehabilitation services research and psychometric testing of outcome measures. In 2017 I was appointed to the European Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine and was elected Secretary-General of the Academy in 2022.

Qualifications

  • MD, University College London
  • MEd, University of Leeds
  • FHEA, Higher Education Academy
  • MRCP, Royal College of Physicians

Research groups and institutes

  • Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine
  • Complex interventions
  • Educating doctors to provide safer care
  • International health research
  • Musculoskeletal disease
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