Christopher Williams Sydney Spinal Virtual Symposium 2020

Christopher Williams

Associate Professor Chris Williams is an NHMRC Research Fellow with qualifications in exercise science and physiotherapy. He graduated with a PhD from Sydney Medical School in 2013. In 2016, he was appointed as a Hunter New England (HNE) Local Health District Clinical Research Fellow. A/Prof Williams’s research has focuses on integrated care and prevention approaches for musculoskeletal conditions and chronic disease in clinical and population health settings. A/Prof Williams established and leads the HNE Musculoskeletal Health and Obesity Program, a research-practice program with HNE Population Health, and various clinical units across the Health District. The team's work on innovation for integrated care models in outpatient services received a NSW Health Excellence Award in 2018. More broadly A/Prof Williams’s work involves clinical and pragmatic designs to test intervention effects, as well as implementation strategies aiming to improve the use of evidence-based integrated health care. He has previously conducted several seminal trials in musculoskeletal care including a largest placebo-controlled trial of paracetamol for acute back pain involving 1650 patients, and the first clinical trials of weight loss and multi-factor lifestyle support for chronic back pain. He has authored 110 peer reviewed publications, including in Lancet, British Medical Journal, JAMA Internal Medicine, and BMC Medicine, and received over $AU5 million in competitive research funding.