Dr Anita Williams

Senior Lecturer

• Brian Blatchford PO29
• T: 0161 295 7027
• E: a.e.williams1@salford.ac.uk
• SEEK: Research profile

Monday 8.30am - 5.00pm

Wednesday 8.30am - 5.00pm

Thursday 8.30am - 5.00pm

Friday 8.30am - 5.00pm

Following on from many years of clinical experience as a specialist podiatrist Anita became a full time academic at the University of Salford in 1999. She was co-founder of the Podiatry Rheumatic Care Association and chair until 2002. In 2002 she was awarded the British Health Professionals in Rheumatology Silver medal for her early clinical research.

A University of Salford Vice Chancellor Scholarship award in 2000 followed by external funding has supported her research with the award PhD in 2008.  Since then she has completed several research studies resulting in many conference abstract presentations, publication and invitations for keynote lectures both in the UK and internationally. She is also postgraduate research co-ordinator for the School of Health Science.

As well as her undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision of research students she runs a postgraduate course in Therapeutic Footwear which was developed in collaboration with the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists and the British Association of Prosthetists and Orthotists.

She is reviewer for ten journals and an advisory board member of the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research and editorial board member of Clinical Medicine: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders.

She has contributed to several clinical standard documents - Musculoskeletal Foot Health Standards (2008); Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance Guidelines for the management of people with Inflammatory Arthritis

Currently she is a Committee member of the Arthritis Research UK Publications and Education committee, is a Committee member of the Society of chiropodists and Podiatrists Healthy Footwear Guide Group and on the steering group for the NW Allied Health Professions Research Network.

Rheumatology

Management of people with chronic diseases

Health behavior

Influences on professional practice

Research methods

Supervising final year student dissertations

PhD student supervision

Year manager for level 6 Part time students

Qualitative research methodology

Rheumatology

Foot Health Interventions – foot orthoses, Footwear

Health behavior and the psychology of health

Guideline development

BSc (hons), PhD

Member of the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists

Fellow of the Faculty of Podiatric Medicine - Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists

Member of the Health and Care Professions Council

Member of British Health Professionals in Rheumatology

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow)

Academic member of the NW Clinical Effectiveness

Williams A.E and Meacher K. Shoes in the Cupboard- the Fate of Prescribed footwear (2001) Prosthetics and Orthotics International 25, 53-59

Williams A.E. Meeting the challenge of the Bone and Joint Decade - New guidelines for the foot in Rheumatic Diseases. British Journal of Podiatry 2002 Dec: 624

Williams A.E and Bowden A.P.  An Audit of Foot Problems in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases. Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists 2002 British Journal of Podiatry; 122

Smirnova L, Heath G, Nester C.J and Williams A.E Foot pressure assessment of feet with orthopaedic problems. 2003 Journal of Orthotics p234-237

Williams A.E and Bowden A.P.  Meeting the challenge for foot health in Rheumatic diseases. The Foot 14 (2004) 154-158.

Williams A.E, O'Neill T.W, Mercer, S, Toro B and Nester C.J. Foot Problems in Pagets Disease. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association May/June 2006 Vol 96 No 3 226 – 231

Williams A.E and Nester C.J. Patient perceptions of prescribed stock footwear design features Prosthetics and Orthotics International April 2006; 30(1): 61 – 71

Williams AE A Critical review of therapeutic footwear British Journal of Podiatry 2007; 10 (3) 80-99

Williams AE Critical Review Part 2.Specialist footwear as a therapeutic intervention for patients with rheumatoid arthritis British Journal of Podiatry 2007; 10(3): 87–92

Williams AE Critical review Part 1.Specialist footwear as a therapeutic intervention for diabetic foot problems a critical review  British Journal of Podiatry 2007; 10(3): 80–86

Williams A.E, Rome K and Nester C.J. A clinical trial of specialist footwear for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology 2007 46(2):302-307

Williams AE, Nester CJ and Ravey MI. A qualitative investigation of rheumatoid arthritis patients’ experiences of therapeutic footwear- a qualitative investigation BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2007, 8:104

Rome K, Chapman J, Williams AE, Gow P, Dalbeth N. Podiatry services for patients with arthritis: an unmet need New Zealand Medical Journal  5 March 2010, Vol 123 No 1310;91-97

Walmsley S, Williams AE, Ravey MI and Graham AS. The rheumatoid foot: a systematic literature review of patient reported outcome measures Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2010, 3:12 doi: 10.1186/1757-1146-3-12

McElhone K, Abbott J, Gray J, Williams A and Teh L-S. Patient perspective of systemic lupus erythematosus in relation to health-related quality of life concepts –a qualitative study - Lupus 2010 Dec;19(14):1640-7.

Silvester, RN, Williams AE, Dalbeth N and Rome K 'Choosing shoes': a preliminary study into the challenges facing clinicians in assessing footwear for rheumatoid patients Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2010, 3:24 doi: 10.1186/1757-1146-3-24

Williams AE, Nester CJ, Ravey MI, Kottink A, Morey-Klapsing G. Women's experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear in three European countries. J Foot Ankle Res 2010 Oct 8, 3:23

WANG Xu, MA Xin, MA Lijie, CHEN Li, ZHANG Chao, HUANG Jiazhang, GU Xiangjie, JIANG Jianyuan, WANG Dongmei, WANG Chengtao, TAO Kai, Christopher James Nester, Anita Williams, Anmin Liu. Computer Assisted Design of Therapeutic Personalized Footwear for Diabetic Foot: a Preliminary Study Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics, 2011; 31 (5):514-529

Williams AE, Davies S, Graham A, Dagg A, Longrigg K, Lyons C and Bowen C  Guidelines for the Management of the Foot Health Problems Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis  Musculoskeletal Care 2011; 9 (2) : 86–92     

Graham, AS., Hammond, A. and Williams, AE. (2011), Therapeutic Foot Health Education for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Narrative Review. Musculoskeletal Care, 9: 141–151.

Graham AS  Hammond A and Williams AE Foot Health Education for People with Rheumatoid Arthritis – the practitioner’s perspective – Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2012, 5:2

Williams AE and Graham A. ‘My feet – visible but ignored …’ – an interpretive phenomenological investigation into the experiences of people with Rheumatoid Arthritis Clin Rehabil. 2012 Oct; 26(10):952-9.

Walmsley S of Graham AS and Williams AE Development of a Patient Reported Outcome Measure for the Assessment and Evaluation the Foot Affected by RA Journal of Epidemiology Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2012 Apr;65(4):413-22

Jarvis HJ, Nester CJ, Jones RK, Williams AE Bowden PD. Inter-assessor reliability of practice based biomechanical assessment of the foot and ankle.   Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2012, 5:14 

BOOKS

Williams AE and Nester CJ Foot Orthoses and Footwear Pocket Guide - Elsevier Published June 2010

Multidisciplinary management of rheumatic diseases - Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology 2012