Our Partners

The James Lind Alliance (JLA) is a non-profit making initiative established in 2004. It brings patients, carers and clinicians together in Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs) to identify and prioritise the Top 10 unanswered questions or evidence uncertainties that they agree are the most important.

Myelopathy.org is a non-profit organisation founded to raise awareness of degenerative cervical myelopathy and support patients, carers and professionals who live and deal with it. ​

Our objectives are to: 1) Provide an educational resource for patients, carers and professionals, 2) Develop a support community for patients and carers, 3)To become a catalyst for promoting advancements in care and management for patients with DCM

The NIHR was established in 2006 under the government’s health research strategy, Best Research for Best Health.  By connecting universities, the NHS, local government, other research funders, patients and the public, we deliver and enable world-class research that shapes policy, strengthens the health and care system, drives economic growth, advances science for national and international benefit, and improves lives.

Principal Investigator

NIHR Clinician Scientist & Honorary Consultant in Neurosurgery,

Academic Neurosurgery Unit & Anne McLaren Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Co-principal Investigator

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery, Academic Neurosurgery Unit & Anne McLaren Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge,
UK.

Chairperson, AOSpine Spinal Cord Injury Knowledge Forum.

University of British Columbia.

Vancouver, Canada.

Past Chairperson,
AOSpine Spinal Cord Injury Knowledge Forum. University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada.

AOSpine Spinal Cord Injury Knowledge Forum Steering Committee Member.

Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.

AOSpine Spinal Cord Injury Knowledge Forum  Steering Committee Member.

University of Maryland. 

Baltimore, USA.

AOSpine Spinal Cord Injury Knowledge Forum Steering Committee Member.

Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center. Tehran, Iran.

AOSpine Spinal Cord Injury Knowledge Forum Steering Committee Member.

Thomas Jefferson University. Philadelphia, USA.

Professor of Neurological Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.

Professor for Paraplegiology and Medical Director, Balgrist University Hospital, Spinal Cord Injury Center, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

NIHR Clinician Scientist, Center for Surgical Research, Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Assistant Professor at the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto.

Clinician Scientist, 

Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-LC, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.

DCM Patient Representative &

Director of Myelopathy Patient Support at Myelopathy.org, Wales.

Assistant Professor, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Toronto & Clinician Investigator, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. Toronto, Canada.

DCM Patient Representative & Partner of Goffin Consultancy, Healthcare Consultants, UK.

DCM Patient Representative &

Public Relations Lead,

Myelopathy.org, UK.

DCM Patient Representative,
UK.

DCM Patient Representative & Administrator at Myelopathy.org, Vermont, USA.

DCM Patient Representative & Graduate PhD Student + Research Assistant, Dept of Physical Therapy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA.

DCM Patient Representative, USA

Admissions and Graduation Advisor,

California State University, Bakersfield, USA.

DCM Patient Representative & Administrator at Myelopathy.org

DCM Patient Representative & Administrator at Myelopathy.org

DCM Patient Representative, USA.

DCM Patient Representative, USA. 

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, USA.

Chair in Movement Disorders & Professor of Medicine (Neurology),
University of Toronto & Toronto Western Hospital, Canada.

Family Medicine Physician,

Centre for Family Medicine Family Health Team & McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.

Assistant Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, 

Toronto, Canada.

Professor of Medicine, Chief Medical Officer & Co-director of Jefferson Vascular Center, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA.

Medical Student, 

University College Cork, Ireland

& Postdoctoral Research Fellow. 

Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Chair in Neurosurgery & Professor of Neurosurgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.

Clinical Lecturer in Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

COS researcher (http://www.comet-initiative.org/studies/details/833?result=true)

Specialist Trainee in Neurosurgery & PhD candidate, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Liverpool.

COS researcher (http://www.comet-initiative.org/studies/details/824)

Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon with specialist interests in degenerative spinal disease, tumour and trauma. 

Cambridge,
UK & Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Staff Neurosurgical Consultant & Associate Professor,

Department of Neurologic Surgery, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Department of Health Services Research, 

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science,

Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

Consultant Spinal Orthopaedic Surgeon & Associate Professor,

Department Of Orthopaedics,

Christian Medical College,

Tamil Nadu, India.

Chairman & Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, 

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin,

Germany.

Neurosurgical Resident,

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin,

Germany.

Consultant Spinal Surgeon

The University of Tokyo Hospital, 

Tokyo, Japan.

Neurosurgery Resident

Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland

& Visiting Scholar,

Department of Neurosurgery,
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA.

Specialist Trainee in Neurosurgery,

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Beaumont Hospital, 

Dublin, Ireland.

Associate Professor & Complex Spine and Neurosurgeon,

The Alfred and Peninsula Health 

Head, Spine and Neurotrauma,
National Trauma Research Institute

Central Clinical School, Monash University

Professor & Chair,

University Neurosurgical Center Holland,

Leiden University Medical Center & The Hague, 

Netherlands.

Spinal Surgeon

Clínica Alemana de Santiago,

Santiago, Chile.

Consultant Spinal Surgeon,

Prince of Wales Hospital Sydney

& Chairperson, Spinal Network Australia.

Consultant Spinal Surgeon & Spine Center Director, Hospital Churruca Visca,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Neurosurgery Resident

Geneva University Hospitals, 

Switzerland.

NIHR Clinician Scientist & Honorary Consultant in Neurosurgery,

Academic Neurosurgery Unit & Anne McLaren Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery, Academic Neurosurgery Unit & Anne McLaren Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Academic Foundation Programme Trainee in Neuroscience,

University of Cambridge, 

Cambridge, UK.

DCM Patient Representative & Partner of Goffin Consultancy, Healthcare Consultants, UK.

Undergraduate Medical Student, University of Cambridge,

Cambridge, UK.

DCM Patient Representative &

Director of Myelopathy Patient Support at Myelopathy.org, Wales.

Research Project Manager,

AO Spine Spinal Cord Injury Knowledge Forum, Switzerland.

Advisor, James Lind Alliance, National Institute for Health Research, UK.