Tom Wilkinson
Dr Thomas Wilkinson is a health researcher with over a decade of experience leading complex health research programmes across academia, healthcare, and industry. He holds a PhD in Physiology and is a Research Fellow within the Leicester Diabetes Centre and Leicester Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Leicester. His expertise spans clinical outcomes research, real-world evidence generation, outcome measurement science, psychometrics, epidemiology, and clinical trial methodology. Tom has extensive experience designing, delivering, and managing multidisciplinary research programmes involving pharmaceutical, behavioural, and digital health interventions across multiple long-term conditions, including obesity, diabetes, kidney disease, and multimorbidity.
Throughout his career, Tom has successfully led collaborations involving academic institutions, healthcare providers, industry partners, policymakers, patients, and healthcare professionals, providing strategic oversight from study conception through to implementation and dissemination. He currently provides scientific leadership and oversight to multiple nationally and industry-funded research programmes focused on developing and evaluating innovative healthcare interventions for people living with obesity and multiple long-term conditions.
Tom has published over 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts (h-index 38, i10 index 83) and has successfully been awarded over £10 million in external grant funding.
Favourite way to be active
Running and swimming (both with and without my two dogs), cricket, gym, pacing my living room watching Aston Villa throw away 2 goal leads
Contact
T.J.Wilkinson@leicester.ac.uk
Research Areas
Current Projects
Inclusive intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating for weight loss
Investigating the 95th centile of stride velocity in people with obesity
Psychometric evaluation of the reliability of functional outcome measures in people with obesity
Improving kidney failure risk calculations in ethnically diverse populations
Publications
Belfield AE, Wilkinson TJ, Henson J, Sargeant JA, Breen L, Hall AP, Davies MJ, Yates T. Sarcopenia prevalence using handgrip strength or chair stand performance in adults living with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Age Ageing. 2024 May 1;53(5):afae090. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afae090. PMID: 38706394; PMCID: PMC11070724.
Carey NP, Curtis F, Eisenbeisz ML, Akbari S, Sambharia M, Jalal DI, Wilkinson TJ. Does home blood pressure monitoring improve blood pressure-related outcomes in people living with chronic kidney disease? A systematic review. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2024 Apr;26(4):314-329. doi: 10.1111/jch.14795. Epub 2024 Mar 25. PMID: 38523586; PMCID: PMC11007799.
Lightfoot CJ, Wilkinson TJ, Vadaszy N, Graham-Brown MPM, Davies MJ, Yates T, Smith AC. Improving self-management behaviour through a digital lifestyle intervention: An internal pilot study. J Ren Care. 2024 Jan 31. doi: 10.1111/jorc.12488. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38296833.