Professor James Bateman MBChB, MMedEd, PhD, FRCP

Dr James Bateman

Birmingham Medical School
Honorary Professor
Consultant Rheumatologist and Head of Undergraduate Academy, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Contact details

Email
j.bateman@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@jamesbateman

James Bateman is a Consultant Rheumatologist and Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham. He leads undergraduate medical education at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and has research interests in digital health, clinical reasoning, technology enhanced learning and musculoskeletal triage.

Qualifications

  • MBChB University of Birmingham
  • MMedEd University of Warwick
  • PhD University of Warwick
  • FRCP Royal College of Physicians London

Biography

James Bateman is a Consultant Rheumatologist at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Honorary Professor in the Institute of Clinical Sciences at the University of Birmingham. He has more than twenty years of experience across inflammatory arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, connective tissue disease, vasculitis and complex musculoskeletal pain. He leads the undergraduate academy at the Trust and supports students through their clinical placements, assessment processes and academic development for the University of Birmingham.

James trained in the Midlands and completed a PhD via an Arthritis Research UK  Educational Research Fellowship (then ‘Versus Arthritis’, now ‘Arthritis UK’), focusing on virtual patient design and clinical reasoning. His academic interests include clinical education, digital learning, technology enhanced teaching, clinical reasoning and musculoskeletal triage. He has published widely in both medical education and rheumatology, with work spanning virtual learning environments, COVID-19 research, digital patient communication and service evaluation. He received the NRAS Healthcare Champion Award in 2019 for his contributions to rheumatology care in England.

He has held leadership roles in governance, technology enhanced learning, and educational development, and contributes to curriculum design, assessment and the professional development of clinical teaching fellows. James continues to work with large MSK datasets to explore predictors of inflammatory disease, chronic widespread pain and triage outcomes, with the aim of improving patient centred care and early identification of rheumatological conditions. He is the clinical speciality lead for rheumatology for Aston Medical School.

Teaching

Research

James Bateman’s research spans medical education, clinical reasoning, vasculitis and musculoskeletal triage. He is Principal Investigator for vasculitis registry studies at his centre and led a major COVID research trial evaluating the impact of the pandemic on outcomes and quality of life in rheumatology patients. He has served as PI and co-investigator on multiple NHS and commercial studies. His current work includes analysing large MSK datasets and studying vasculitis mimics to improve early diagnosis, clinical decision making and patient experience.

Other activities

  • Dr Bateman has an active interest in health professional education and digital technologies. He has presented at national webinars for the Royal College of Physicians in 2021 and the British Society for Rheumatology in 2020 on the challenges of managing the COVID-19 pandemic. His research in digital communications was presented at the opening plenary of the EULAR 2021 conference.
  • Dr Bateman has appeared on different media outlets including the BBC.
  • He is a principal investigator and a coinvestigator on several clinical research trials
  • National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) Consultant Champion, England November 2019
  • He is a member of the British Society for Rheumatology: Remote Monitoring Special interest group 2021, and provides content for the British Society for Rheumatology
  • Dr Bateman has provided elearning content and teaching resources to the Medical Protection Society, Coventry University, Keele University, and Warwick University.

Publications

Rajagopala L, Ford M, Jasim M, Bateman J.SUCCESSFUL PATIENT EDUCATION ON COVID-19 VACCINE SAFETY IN A LARGE RHEUMATOLOGY COHORT USING INTERACTIVE MOBILE-PHONE VIDEO TECHNOLOGY: CONTEXT, RESULTS, AND NEXT STEPS.  Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:5-6.

Cleaton N, Raizada S, Sheeran T, Bateman J. THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING AND MENTAL WELLBEING IN 824 PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATIC DISEASE OVER 8 MONTHS: PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING DECLINESAnnals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:903-904.

COVID-19 vaccination advice via SMS-based video to improve vaccination uncertainty in at-risk groups. PMID:34075360 Bateman J , Cox N , Rajagopala L , Ford M , Jasim M , Mulherin D , Venkatachalam S , Douglas B , Hirsch G , Sheeran T . The Lancet. Rheumatology, 3(6):399-401

Cleaton N , Bateman J. Initial impact of COVID-19 on health-related quality of life in patients with rheumatic diseases from an evaluation of 1,727 patients: BAME and female patients are at higher risk. PMCID:PMC8135322 Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 60(Suppl 1)

Mistry P , Bateman J , Hughes K. Interactive rheumatology biologic self-injection video advice using an SMS based video resource: successful implementation during a pandemic. PMCID:PMC8135397. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 60(Suppl 1)

Mistry P , Bateman J , Foss H , Jasim M . A rheumatology carousel: three-year results from an open-access teaching workshop designed for core rheumatology assessments for undergraduate medical students. PMC8135452 Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 60(Suppl 1)

Natasha Cleaton, James Bateman, Initial impact of COVID-19 on health-related quality of life in patients with rheumatic diseases from an evaluation of 1,727 patients: BAME and female patients are at higher risk, Rheumatology, Volume 60, Issue Supplement_1, April 2021 https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keab246.019.

Bateman J, Cleaton N. Managing patients using telerheumatology: Lessons from a pandemic. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2021 Mar;35(1):101662. doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2021.101662. Epub 2021 Jan 30. PMID: 33526324; PMCID: PMC7993644.

Cleaton N, Raizada S, Barkham N, Venkatachalam S, Sheeran TP, Adizie T, Sapkota H, Singh BM, Bateman J. The impact of COVID-19 on rheumatology patients in a large UK centre using an innovative data collection technique: prevalence and effect of social shielding. Rheumatol Int. 2021 Apr;41(4):707-714. doi: 10.1007/s00296-021-04797-4. Epub 2021 Feb 9. PMID: 33559727; PMCID: PMC7871319.

Singh BM, Bateman J, Viswanath A, Klaire V, Mahmud S, Nevill A, Dunmore SJ. Risk of COVID-19 hospital admission and COVID-19 mortality during the first COVID-19 wave with a special emphasis on ethnic minorities: an observational study of a single, deprived, multiethnic UK health economy. BMJ Open. 2021 Feb 17;11(2):e046556. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046556. PMID: 33597146; PMCID: PMC7893203.

H R Sapkota , A Nune, J Bateman  , S Venkatachalam. A pragmatic proposal for triaging DXA testing during the COVID-19 global pandemic.PMID:  33146750  PMCID:  PMC7640538. DOI:  10.1007/s00198-020-05722-4   Osteoporosis International. 2021 Jan;32(1):1-6.

Sabrina R Raizada, Natasha Cleaton, James Bateman, Diarmuid M Mulherin, Nick Barkham, Are telephone consultations here to stay in rheumatology?, Rheumatology Advances in Practice , rkaa071, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkaa071

Cleaton N, Raizada S, Barkham N, Bateman J. COVID-19 prevalence and the impact on quality of life from stringent social distancing in a single large UK rheumatology centre. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. Online First: 21 July 2020. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218236

Bateman J, Mulherin D, Hirsch G, Venkatachalam S, Sheeran T. Rapid distribution of information by SMS-embedded video link to patients during a pandemic [published online ahead of print, 2020 May 6]. Lancet Rheumatol. 2020;2(6):e315‐e316. doi:10.1016/S2665-9913(20)30126-0

Bateman, James and Mulherin, Diarmuid and Venkatachalam, Srinivasan and Hirsch, George and Sheeran, Tom, Rapid Distribution of Complex Patient Information by SMS-Embedded Video Link During a Pandemic: Patient Uptake, Self-Risk Assessment and Feedback (4/1/2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3569841 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3569841  (Lancet Preprint for published, but not peer reviewed research).

Cleaton N, Bateman J.  THU0301 OUTPATIENT REFERRAL WITH A POSITIVE ANCA? A SINGLE-CENTRE EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF IMPLEMENTING THE 2017 REVISED INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS ON ANCA TESTING FROM 1547 NEW PATIENT REFERRALS.  Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2020;79:379.

Cleaton N, Bateman J. Referral with a positive antinuclear antibody? Lessons from prospective triage and diagnosis in a single-centre service evaluation of 1,547 new rheumatology referrals, Rheumatology, 2020  59 (2)i52. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keaa111.090

Dryburgh W, Bateman J. What can we learn from new musculoskeletal extended scope practitioner referrals to rheumatology secondary care? A prospective service evaluation.  Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2019;78:1374.

Atkin S, Barnett P, Groves C, Bateman J. Eight years of a sustainable rheumatology patient participation group: lessons learnt in improving quality, safety and patient experience, Rheumatology 2019;58:S3,122-123

Adize T, Ali I, Kennedy A, Bateman J. Beware negative FDG-PET-CT and temporal artery biopsy in pyrexia of unknown origin: Two cases with discordant results. Rheumatology (Oxford) (2017) (suppl_1): i42

Bateman J, Kanny A, Glynn P, Jobanputra P. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis of the Musculoskeletal System: A Retrospective Cohort Series from Birmingham, UK from 2008 to 2013. Rheumatology (Oxford) (2016) 55 (suppl_1): i83-i84

Expertise

Public understanding of science, arthritis, connective tissue disease, vasculitis, and vasculitis mimics including cocaine use.

Media experience

James has contributed to national media discussions on rheumatology, medical education and public understanding of science. He has appeared on BBC radio and has been featured in the media for challenging misleading press releases and inaccurate reporting of complex medical processes, including through his published Lancet correspondence on the misrepresentation of ADHD related research.