Dr Emma Wilson
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Emma is a senior lecturer based in Chester Medical School. She is programme lead for the MSc in Orthopaedics and the locomotion lead for the MBChB programme which teaches medical students. Emma is also induction lead for postgraduate students in the Medical School and Module lead for the first core module for all PG medical students in the Medical School.
Teaching and Supervision
Emma is the programme lead for the MSc in Orthopaedics, module lead for several PG modules and block lead for MbChB locomotion. Emma also leads induction for PG students and also teaches ‘evidence based medicine’ to all PG MSc students in the Medical School. Emma is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has Postgraduate qualifications in secondary education and in higher education
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Emma is primarily a cell biologist with research interests that cover a range of musculoskeletal diseases from osteoporosis to rare inherited neuromuscular diseases. Emma is a member of the Bone Research Society and also together with another member of the medical school acts as the academic unit for the Metabolic Bone Research Group based at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen. The unit has 12,000 patients a year and is developing research projects focused on drug-induced metabolic bone disease and diabetic bone disease. Emma also collaborates with researchers based at Keele University on projects focusing on osteoarthritis and on patients with inherited neuromuscular diseases and at the University of Liverpool on projects related to ageing and osteoarthritis. Emma has specialist skills in mass spectrometry of proteins, Commercial assay development, monoclonal antibody design and validation, cell culture in 2D and 3D systems, confocal microscopy, gene manipulation and RT-PCR.