David Evans
Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Evans is an Assistant Professor and clinician-researcher with 25+ years of clinical practice and over two decades of academic research focused on musculoskeletal pain, particularly back pain and spinal manipulation. He combines world-leading expertise in teaching and investigating underlying mechanisms of manual therapy with strong methodological skills in pain measurement, QST, questionnaire development, and remote digital kinematic assessment. As Clinic Director of The Birmingham Back Pain Clinic and an active contributor to the ResearchKit open-source project, he bridges hands-on patient care, clinical teaching and mobile research tool development to improve movement-evoked pain measurement. His work increasingly integrates post-trauma pain, PTSD and fatigue, reflecting a broadening translational interest in complex determinants of disability such as fear and functional movement.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Pain science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Pain science at Keele UniversityBachelor of Science with honours - BSc (hons), Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy, 1st class honours, Bachelor of Science with honours - BSc (hons), Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy, 1st class honours at University College of Osteopathy
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objective-c10
researchkit10
ios10
mobile-development10
coremotion10
mobile-application10
uid8
interface-design8
ui-design8
swift6
accelerometer6
derivative6
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Github contributions (5)
ResearchKit/ResearchKit
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
ResearchKit is an open source software framework that makes it easy to create apps for medical research or for other research projects.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:76 commits, 6 PRs, 66 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `ResearchKit` project by modifying and extending the functionality of active tasks related to range of motion assessments. They made several changes to `ORKRangeOfMotionStepViewController.m`, including adjustments to angle calculations, result reporting, and the incorporation of new features like image assets and speech instructions. Furthermore, the user updated and refactored the `ORKRangeOfMotionResult.m` and `ORKShoulderRangeOfMotionStepViewController.m` files to ensure accuracy and consistency across different assessment types.
open-source-softwareresearchkitmedicalsoftware-framework
davwillev/ResearchKit
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
ResearchKit is an open source software framework that makes it easy to create apps for medical research or for other research projects.
Contributions:35 PRs, 720 pushes, 41 branches in 4 years 9 months
open-source-softwareresearchkitmedicalsoftware-framework
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