After completing initial studies in India (securing MBBS in 2000 and MD medicine in 2004), Dr. Wig gained further higher qualifications in rheumatology in the UK training in the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the North West. She obtained MRCP (UK) in 2006, MRCP (Rheumatology) in 2010 and a Masters in Clinical Rheumatology degree with merit from the University of Manchester in 2012.
She was appointed as Consultant Rheumatologist at Bolton in January 2013 and is the audit lead for Rheumatology at the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. She is also an honorary lecturer in Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences within the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. She was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 2015.
Dr. Wig looks after patients with varied rheumatology problems: rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, giant cell arteritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia (chronic pain syndrome), hypermobility, Lupus and other connective tissue diseases, gout, Ankylosing spondylitis, vasculitis etc.
Special interests of Dr. Wig are early inflammatory arthritis, MSK ultrasound, chronic pain syndrome (fibromyalgia), hypermobility and ankylosing spondylitis.
Research: Her research project entitled ‘A longitudinal study of ankle brachial pressure indices in a cohort of patients with systemic sclerosis’, led to the award of her Master’s degree.
Pyomyositis: an unusual cause of hip pain in a patient on certolizumab pegol and leflunomide.
Wig S, McCabe PS, Swamy S, Sultan J, Vasireddy S.
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2018 Sep 1; 57(9):1685-1686. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/key086
Galaxy sign in alveolar sarcoidosis: An unusual radiological presentation of Lofgren’s syndrome.
McCabe P, Wig S.
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2017 Dec 1; 56(12):2128. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kex359.
Simultaneous presentation of IgG4-related chronic peri-aortitis and coeliac disease in a patient with Marfan’s Syndrome.
Lindsay D, Ismajli M, Bucknall R, Lipscomb G, Boyle JJ, Mason JC, Wig S.
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2016 Jun; 55(6):1141-3. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kew059. Epub 2016 Mar 24
A case of relapsing and refractory catastrophic anti-phospholipid syndrome successfully managed with eculizumab, a complement 5 inhibitor.
Wig S, Chan M, Thachil J, Bruce I, Barnes T. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2016 Feb; 55(2):382-4. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kev371. Epub 2015 Oct 15.
An unusual presentation of lymphoma in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis in remission.
Wig S, Haworth J.
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2015 Oct; 54(10):1875. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kev281. Epub 2015 Aug
A longitudinal study of ankle brachial pressure indices in a cohort of patients with systemic sclerosis.
Wig S, Wilkinson J, Moore T, Manning J, Chevance A, Vail A, Herrick AL.
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2014 Nov;53(11):2009-13. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keu227.
An unusual cause of the neck-tongue syndrome.
Wig S, Romanowski C, Akil M.
J Rheumatol. 2009 Apr;36(4):857-8. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.080993.
Influence of adverse weather on osteoporotic fractures in older people.
Wig S, Kayan K.
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007 Nov;55(11):1884.
Consultant, Rheumatology
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