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Will TaylorWill Taylor trained in rheumatology and rehabilitation medicine, obtaining vocational registration in these areas in 1998. He continues to practise clinical medicine in Wellington and Gisborne, New Zealand. His PhD, partly based in Leeds UK, led to the widespread adoption of new classification criteria for the diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis. He also chaired the development of new ACR/EULAR classification criteria for gout. Between 2008 and 2017 he lead the Rehabilitation Teaching & Research Unit.

Will supervises research students and is actively involved in research in a variety of fields including vocational rehabilitation, goal-setting, outcome measurement and clinical trial methodology (especially in gout). He works in collaboration with a number of local and overseas researchers including the Australia and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials (ANZMUSC) network, AUT University, OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials), GRAPPA (Group for Research and Assessment in Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis) and the ICF Research Centre. He has a particular interest in instrumentation, psychometrics and clinical epidemiology. A current research interest concerns response criteria following treatment for gout and classification criteria for gout.

Will teaches in REHB 704 Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation.

Email will.taylor@otago.ac.nz

Publications

Tabi-Amponsah, A. D., Doherty, M., Sarmanova, A., Zhang, W., Stewart, S., Taylor, W. J., Stamp, L. K., & Dalbeth, N. (2024). Post-hoc analysis of two gout remission definitions in a two-year randomized controlled trial of nurse-led versus usual gout care. Seminars in Arthritis & Rheumatism, 69, 152555. doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152555 Journal - Research Article

Tabi-Amponsah, A. D., Stewart, S., Gamble, G., Doyle, A. J., Billington, K., Son, C.-N., … Stamp, L. K., Taylor, W. J., … Dalbeth, N. (2024). Baseline dual energy computed tomography urate volume predicts fulfillment of gout remission after two years of urate-lowering therapy. Arthritis Care & Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/acr.25414 Journal - Research Article

Taylor, W. J., Dalbeth, N., Kain, T., White, D., Grainger, R., & Quincey, V. (2024). Time to start disease modifying drugs for adults with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis: Results of the first year of the national New Zealand Rheumatology Association (NZRA) audit. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 137(1600), 21-30. Retrieved from https://www.nzmj.org.nz/ Journal - Research Article

Pascart, T., Latourte, A., Tedeschi, S. K., Dalbeth, N., Neogi, T., Adinolfi, A., … Stamp, L. K., Taylor, W. J., … Abhishek, A. (2024). Features associated with different inflammatory phenotypes of calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease: Study using data from the international ACR/EULAR CPPD classification criteria cohort. Arthritis & Rheumatology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/art.42962 Journal - Research Article

Taylor, W. J., Tuffaha, H., Hawley, C., Peyton, P., Higgins, A. M., Scuffham, P. A., … Hansen, P., … Morton, R. L. (2023). Embedding stakeholder preferences in setting priorities for health research: Using a discrete choice experiment to develop a multi-criteria tool for evaluating research proposals. PLoS ONE, 18(12), e0295304. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295304 Journal - Research Article

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