Dr Manoj Sivan MD FRCP Edin
- Position: Associate Clinical Professor and Honorary Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine
- Areas of expertise: Pain medicine; Long Covid; Non-inflammatory musculoskeletal conditions; Rehabilitation technology; Neurorehabilitation; Long-term conditions; Sleep medicine; Outcome measurement; Global health
- Email: M.Sivan@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: Martin Wing Leeds General Infirmary
- Website: LinkedIn | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
Manoj graduated in Medicine in 1999. He was UK’s first NIHR integrated academic trainee in Rehabilitation Medicine in Leeds and completed his MD (Research) in rehabilitation robotics from University of Leeds.
He was appointed as Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust in 2012 and joined the Human Pain Research Group (HPRG) in University of Manchester as Honorary Senior Lecturer.
Since 2017, he has been in a clinical academic role as Associate Clinical Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine with LIRMM in University of Leeds and NHS Consultant in Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and Leeds Community Healthcare Trust. He also continues in his role within the Human Pain Research Group which is a collaboration between pain researchers from univeristies of Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool.
Awards
2007 UK's first NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Rehabilitation Medicine
2014 European Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (EARM) Prize for best research in rehabilitation in Europe
2014 UK Philips Nichols research prize
2016 Jill Simpson award for clinical excellence, Salford Royal Hospital Foundation Trust
Grants (as Chief Investigator)
July 2021 National Institute for Health Research NIHR £3.4M: Long Covid Multidisciplinary consortium: Optimising Treatments and servIces acrOss the NHS (LOCOMOTION)
April 2021 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EPSRC Impact Acceleration £30k: HEART rate variability biofeedback (HRV-B) in home settings for LOng Covid management (HEARTLOC)
Jan 2021 Medical Research Council MRC CiC £74k: Validation of Covid-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Scale: a new self-report outcome measure for long covid syndrome (C19-YRS)
Sept 2019 QR-Global Challenge Research Fund GCRF £79k: TEleRehabilitation to improve quality of life in individuals with long term disability in Nepal (TERN)
Responsibilities
- Research lead for Leeds Long Covid rehabilitation service
Research interests
Physiology of pain and novel therapeutic approaches in chronic pain; Exercise and restorative robotic rehabilitation technology; Ultrasound for diagnosis and intervention in musculoskeletal problems; Sleep disturbances in chronic conditions; Outcome measurement; Post-COVID syndrome mechanisms and rehabilitative treatments
Qualifications
- FRCP Edin
- MD
- Diploma Sport and Exercise Medicine
- PgC Medical Imaging
- MBBS
Professional memberships
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- General Medical Council
- British Medical Association
- Medical Protection Society
- British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine
Student education
Current postgraduate students
PhD Chao Wang University of Leeds: Upper limb rehabilitation robotic technology for stroke patients
MD Dr Stephen Halpin University of Leeds: Home-based Brainwave Entrainment Technology (hBET) for management of chronic pain and sleep disturbance
PhD Ariane Delgado Sanchez University of Manchester MRC DTP scheme: Validation of a new tool for pain phenotyping
Teaching
Faculty in MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine
https://courses.leeds.ac.uk/i210/sport-and-exercise-medicine-msc
National Muscuskeletal Medicine and Rehabilitation course
Research groups and institutes
- Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine
- Non-Inflammatory Musculoskeletal
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Long-term conditions
- Health services research