Rate My Professor Lianne Wood

Lianne Wood is the Bateman Family Associate Professor of Peripheral Neuropathy in the Department of Public Health and Sports Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, at the University of Exeter, serving as Senior Research Fellow since January 2023. As a clinical academic advanced practice spinal physiotherapist with 13 years of experience, she has worked as an Advanced Spinal Practitioner in a large tertiary NHS trust handling emergency and routine clinics while maintaining a small clinical caseload. She completed her PhD at Keele University in June 2021, with a thesis on treatment targets and outcomes in persistent low back pain. Her research focuses on quantitative methods including prediction modelling, mediation analysis, and secondary analyses of randomised controlled trials; evidence synthesis such as realist reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses; and qualitative methods. Current projects encompass the diagnostic utility of early symptoms in degenerative cervical myelopathy, barriers and facilitators to diagnosis, prehabilitation for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis surgery, and mechanisms of exercise in low back pain outcomes.