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William Dixon is a Clinical Professor of Digital Epidemiology at the University of Manchester and an honorary consultant rheumatologist at Salford Royal Hospital, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. He chairs the Scientific Advisory Board for Our Future Health and serves on multiple Medical Research Council (MRC) panels including the Centres of Research Excellence Panel and Population & Systems Medicine Board. His research focuses on leveraging digital health technologies (smartphones/wearables) and electronic health records to address clinical questions in rheumatology and drug safety.
Qualifications include a BSc (Physiology) from the University of London (1995), MBBS (1997), MRCP (2002), MSc (Clinical Rheumatology, 2004), PhD (2008), and an MSc (Pharmacoepidemiology) from McGill University (2011). He has held external roles such as Google Health consultant (2017–2021) and external examiner at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2016–2021).
Research interests span innovative digital health projects like Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, REMORA (Remote Monitoring of RA), and Assembling the Data Jigsaw. He leads the UK-wide Health Research from Home network promoting smartphone-based population health research.
Key awards include the Linacre Lecture (2014), Outstanding Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year (2020), and Patients as Partners award (2017). His work impacts healthcare through improved drug safety monitoring and symptom tracking integration into clinical systems, with recent media engagements highlighting these contributions in BBC, Good Housekeeping, and other outlets.
Advising roles include leading 12 supervised works and contributing to grants like the NIHR Supporting the rheumatology MDT project (2023–2025). His research teams collaborate across institutions, with projects focusing on opioid utilization trends, EHR text mining, and transforming outpatient consultations through digital symptom tracking systems.
Labs/teams include the Division of Informatics, Imaging & Data Sciences and Population Health Sciences Group at the University of Manchester, alongside collaborations with NHS Trusts and Google Health.
