David H. Christiansen is head of research Regional Hospital Central Jutland and associate professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University in Denmark. He is a physiotherapist, Master of Health Science and a PhD in Clinical Medicine. He has 10 years of clinical experience in rehabilitation of patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain before moving on to full time research. His key interests are prevention, prognosis and effect of interventions of musculoskeletal pain, and evaluation of outcome measurement instruments. He has been the principal investigator on several large scale observational and randomised interventional studies and published widely in peer-review journals in the musculoskeletal field. Throughout his career he has had a strong focus on knowledge translation and ensuring research reaches the end-users and makes a difference.