I am Reader in the School of Medicine with an excellent track record of managing high calibre, evidence based, e-learning and interprofessional level 7 progammes and modules. I am the Programme Director for the MSc in Pain Management, the MSc in Critical Care, the MSc in Advanced Practice and the Pain Management, Primary and Community Care MSc,PgDip and PgDip. Entering into the new Centre for Medical Education, myself and the team are hoping to be involved in C21 curriculum also.
I have a wide range of experiences leading nationally important projects within the field of pain. I was the lead author of the Chronic Pain Directives in Wales, published in 2008, advise the current Welsh Health Minister on pain matters and am the project lead for the Chronic Pain Plan. I am a Council Member of the British Pain Society and was the lead author and chair for their Map of Medicine Pathway: Initial Assessment and Management and the Commissioning Guidance document, am a member of the Undergraduate curriculum guideline group and a member of the group examining terminology associated with routine recording of pain in clinical practice. Up until recently, I was a committee member of the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition, led a workshop at the English Pain Summit, was one of the authors of the Pain Summit document and helped to craft a website to make pain ‘a high street disease’. I am the project lead and main author for ‘Ask2Questions’, a work-stream that came out of the English Pain Summit and coordinated by the Faculty of Pain Medicine.
I was invited to become an OMERACT fellow (http://www.omeract.org/) in the newly formed Pain Special Interest Group in 2013 because of the expertise in pain that I could offer the group, both clinical and scientific. I presented on a couple of occasions at this meeting. The OMERACT Pain Special Interest Group has now aligned its role with IMMPACT/ACTTION (http://www.immpact.org/ ) and I presented at the Washington 2014 meeting on self report physical function outcome measures. I am joint first author on the consensus paper around physical function outcome measures currently with Professors Dworkin and Turk. I am also a member of the EULAR Fibromyalgia Guideline Update Group and the updated guidelines will be published later in 2016.I have presented at local, national and international conferences on various aspects of pain. I have been heavily involved in the research agenda around pain; supervising research projects and undertaking both investigator led and commercial studies.
Career overview
2010 to present: Reader in Pain Research and Education Cardiff University
2000 to 2010: Senior Lecturer in Pain Research and Education Cardiff University
1999 to 2003 Part time lecturer Barry College
1994 to 2000 Non clinical lecturer UWCM
1993 to 1994 Course co-ordinator UWCM
1988 to 1992 Intensive Care Sister Cardiff Royal Infirmary
Education and qualifications
2013 Doctor of Philosophy, CUBRIC, Cardiff University
2002 NVQ D32,33, Barry College
2001 MSc Medical Education, University of Wales
1994 Further Education, Teaching Cert UWIC
1993 Bachelor of Nursing, University of Wales
1989 Diploma in Nursing, University of Wales
1983 Registered General Nurse, SGHA (Teaching)
Anrhydeddau a Dyfarniadau
2009 Presented to the Queen for contribution to NHS services in Wales
2007 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
1999 Women in Education and Welsh Woman of the Year
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
Royal College of Nursing
British Pain Society, Council Member
British Pain Society, committee member
Outcome Measures in Rheumatology, Fellow
Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials member
International Association for the Study of Pain member
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
(From 2010 only)
2015, Wound pain assessment, Cardiff University, Cardiff.
2015, Workshop Primary Care SIG, BPS, Glasgow.
2015, House of Lords, English Pain Summit update, London.
2014, Presentation to the Welsh Governmental Advisory Panel on Substance Misuse Review of Tramadol/Prescription Only Medicines, Cardiff.
2014, Patient Reported Functional Outcome Measures, IMMPACT, Washington, D.C.
2014, Pain, the Poor Relation, WITS Multi-Disciplinary Oncology Congress, South Africa.
2014, Pain train the trainer residential weekend, Cape Town, S.Africa.
2014, Pain Management Services: Planning for the Future, London, Royal College of General Practice, London.
2014, Getting the ‘Rs’ Right, British Pain Society.
2014, Functional imaging in chronic pain diagnosis and treatment, British Pain Society, London.
2013, Week in Week Out, Interview on pain and analgesic use, BBC Wales.
2013, Pain Pathway Roadshow, British Pain Society, London.
2013, Agile in the Public Sector, Agile, London.
2012, Writing Directives and Plotting pathways, British Pain Society, London.
2012, Debate: Is Pain a Disease in its own right? For the motion, Pain Masterclass, London.
2011, What can FMRI tell us about patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain? CUBRIC, Cardiff.
2011, Nobody dies from pain... or do they! Can education help? Northern Ireland Acute Pain Forum, Belfast.
2011, Imaging neural responses to affective and pain-related stimuli in chronic non malignant pain patients versus healthy controls, Anaesthetic Research Society, Manchester.
2011, Change Pain Workshop, Cardiff.
2010, Workshop at the first ever pain education satellite meeting of IASP on assessing interprofessional pain education, Toronto, Canada
2010, Presentation at the British Orthopaedic Research Meeting, Use of fMRI in Studying Pain, Cardiff.
2010, Interprofessional Assessment, British Pain Society, London.
2010, Assembly members, Welsh Assembly – Importance of Pain and partnership working, Cardiff.
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
2015 Member of the School of Medicine, Athena Swan Core Working Group
External Committees
British Pain Society, council member
2019
- Williams, D.et al. 2019. “Nobody knows, or seems to know how rheumatology and breastfeeding works”: Women's experiences of breastfeeding whilst managing a long-term limiting condition – A qualitative visual methods study. Midwifery 78, pp. 91-96. (10.1016/j.midw.2019.08.002)
2018
- Phillips, R.et al. 2018. Identifying the unmet information and support needs of women with autoimmune rheumatic diseases during pregnancy planning, pregnancy and early parenting: mixed-methods study. BMC Rheumatology 2, article number: 21. (10.1186/s41927-018-0029-4)
- Phillips, R.et al. 2018. Reaching a consensus on research priorities for supporting women with autoimmune rheumatic diseases during pre-conception, pregnancy and early parenting: A Nominal Group Technique exercise with lay and professional stakeholders. Wellcome Open Research 3, article number: 75. (10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14658.1)
2017
- Macfarlane, G. J.et al. 2017. EULAR recommendations for management of fibromyalgia. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 76(12), pp. -., article number: e54. (10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-211587)
- Macfarlane, G. J.et al. 2017. EULAR revised recommendations for the management of fibromyalgia. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 76(2), pp. 318-328. (10.1136/annrheumdis-2016-209724)
2016
- Taylor, A. M.et al. 2016. Assessment of physical function and participation in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT/OMERACT recommendations. Pain 157(9), pp. 1836-1850. (10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000577)
- Taylor, A.et al. 2016. Defining chronic pain reply. Journal of Rheumatology 43(4), pp. 826-827. (10.3899/jrheum.151456)
- Taylor, A. M.et al. 2016. Neural responses to a modified Stroop paradigm in patients with complex chronic musculoskeletal pain compared to matched controls: an experimental functional magnetic resonance imaging study. BMC Psychology 4(5), pp. 1-13. (10.1186/s40359-016-0109-4)
2015
- Taylor, A. M.et al. 2015. A functional magnetic resonance imaging study to investigate the utility of a picture imagination task in investigating neural responses in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain to daily physical activity photographs. PLoS ONE 10(10), article number: e0141133. (10.1371/journal.pone.0141133)
- Taylor, A. M.et al. 2015. Is chronic pain a disease in its own right? Discussions from a Pre-OMERACT 2014 Workshop on chronic pain. Journal of Rheumatology 42(10), pp. 1947-1953. (10.3899/jrheum.141328)
- Phillips, K.et al. 2015. Harmonizing pain outcome measures: results of the Pre-OMERACT meeting on partnerships for consensus on patient-important pain outcome domains between the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group and OMERACT. Journal of Rheumatology 42(10), pp. 1943-1946., article number: 194386. (10.3899/jrheum.141386)
- Maxwell, L. J.et al. 2015. Current state of reporting pain outcomes in Cochrane Reviews of chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions and considerations for an OMERACT research agenda. Journal of Rheumatology 42(10), pp. 1934-1942. (10.3899/jrheum.141423)
- Johnson, M. and Taylor, A. M. 2015. The 10 minute consultation: persistent pain. Cedilla Publishing Ltd.
2014
- Price, C.et al. 2014. Initial assessment and management of pain: a pathway for care developed by the British Pain Society. British Journal of Anaesthesia 112(5), pp. 816-823. (10.1093/bja/aet589)
2013
- Barker, C., Taylor, A. and Johnson, M. 2013. Problematic pain - redefining how we view pain?. British Journal of Pain 8(1), pp. 9-15. (10.1177/2049463713512618)
2012
- Harvey, A., Taylor, A. M. and Wise, R. G. 2012. Imaging pain in arthritis: Advances in structural and functional neuroimaging. Current Pain and Headache Reports 16(6), pp. 492-501. (10.1007/s11916-012-0297-4)
- Taylor, A. M., Johnson, M. and Conway, V. 2012. Pain - initial assessment and early management. Map of Medicine.
- Ellis, B., Johnson, M. and Taylor, A. M. 2012. Education as part of wider health policy and improvement strategies. British Journal of Pain 6(2), pp. 54-58. (10.1177/2049463712445542)
- Taylor, A. 2012. An examination of blood oxygen level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging methods in analysing chronic non-malignant pain patients' responses to non -painful pain stimuli. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
- Harvey, A., Taylor, A. M. and Wise, R. G. 2012. Erratum to: Imaging pain in arthritis: Advances in structural and functional neuroimaging. Current Pain and Headache Reports 16(6), pp. 554. (10.1007/s11916-012-0302-y)
2011
- Taylor, A. M.et al. 2011. Imaging neural responses to affective and pain-related stimuli in chronic non-malignant pain patients vs healthy controls [Abstract]. British Journal of Anaesthesia 107(5), pp. 830-831. (10.1093/bja/aer234)
2010
- Taylor, A. M. 2010. Nurses leading the development of interprofessional education in pain management. In: Carr, E., Layzell, M. and Christensen, M. eds. Advancing Nursing Practice in Pain Management. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 181-193.
2006
- Davies, M.et al. 2006. The Prevalence, Severity, and Impact of Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy in Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care 29(7), pp. 1518-1522. (10.2337/dc05-2228)
1997
- Taylor, A. M.et al. 1997. A double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging, multicenter study of intravenous granisetron in the treatment of postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing surgery with general anesthesia. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 9(8), pp. 658-663. (10.1016/S0952-8180(97)00190-6)
My teaching responsibilities are largely aimed at level 7 or Master's students who are health professionals. As well as the Programme Director, I am actively involved in running modules, for example the Biopsychosocial Model and its application to practice on the MSc in Pain Management and Professional Issues across all courses. I mark e-learning assessments that can be written assignments, blog postings, group works or wikis. I provide a great deal of student support framed through forward feedback on blog postings, small group tutorials and discussion board postings. I supervise students across all the courses we run but my area of specialist interest is in the field of pain and in the provision of e-learning.
I have facilitated a joint working initiative between ourselves and the post graduate courses in the School of Healthcare Sciences and am involved, with my team, in contributing to the undergraduate medical curriculum, starting with pain education and training and evidence based practice.I also teach on a number of other courses within the College.