Epidemiology & Public Health

Biography

Gary Macfarlane has been Professor of Epidemiology at The University of Aberdeen since 2005 and previously held the same post at The University of Manchester from 1999. He trained in Statistics/ Computing Science and then Medicine at The University of Glasgow before undertaking his PhD at The University of Bristol. He worked at the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan 1991-1995 before leading a programme of chronic pain research at the Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit at the University of Manchester. He leads the Epidemiology group at the University of Aberdeen which has programmes of research in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMD), Reproductive Health and Ageing. The RMD programme focuses on: musculoskeletal pain (including fibromyalgia), rheumatic fatigue and axial sponyloarthropathy. It has current funding of ~£4m, it runs the British Society of Rheumatology Biologics Register in Ankylosing Spondylitis (BSRBR-AS) and is part of the Arthritis Research UK/Medical Research Council Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work (with University of Southampton). Professor Macfarlane is a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society as well as a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine.

Abstract

Abstract : Is alcohol consumption associated with reporting of chronic pain in individuals with stable levels of alcohol consumption/non-consumption?