Executive Committee
The Generation Scotland Executive Committee is responsible for the overall management of Generation Scotland. It comprises a senior researcher from each of the four collaborating academic institutions.
Members of the Generation Scotland Executive Committee
Chair: Professor David Porteous OBE FRSE FMedSci FRCP (Edinburgh) (University of Edinburgh)
David is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he has been based since 1999. He originally proposed the Generation Scotland concept, which was envisaged from the outset as a collaborative project across the whole of Scotland. He is Principal Investigator for Generation Scotland and of the GS Access Committee and co-Investigator of three major offshoot research programmes, the MRC Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, the Wellcome Trust funded ‘Stratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL)’ and the Health Data Research UK.
In addition to Generation Scotland, he was a pioneer of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis and the genetics of psychiatric disease. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers, with a career total grant income of more than £50 million. He is also Head of the Medical Genetics Section at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and Director of the Genetics Core at the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization. He was awarded an OBE for contributions to science in the New Year Honours List, 2013.
Professor Blair H. Smith MBChB MD MEd FRCGP FRCP (Edinburgh) (University of Dundee)
Blair was Professor of Primary Care Medicine at the University of Aberdeen from 1993 until August 2011 when he joined the University of Dundee as Professor of Population Science. Formerly also a general practitioner in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, he now works as a Consultant in Pain Medicine, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. In 2016, Blair was appointed Clinical Director of the Division of Population Health Sciences at the University of Dundee. Originally responsible for the Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS) fieldwork and data collection, he has also chaired the GS Access Committee (on which he still sits), and managed the research site at Aberdeen. Blair leads the Pain Expert Working Group and is very active in leading a number of studies utilising GS data.
Outwith Generation Scotland, his research interests mainly focus around the epidemiology of chronic pain, particularly neuropathic pain, and its management in primary care; he works collaboratively with high profile national and international colleagues in this endeavour. The potential to identify and translate the genetics of pain is one of his core interests. He sits on the Management Committee of the International Association for the Study of Pain Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group and chairs the NHS Scotland/Scottish Government Health Directorates Chronic Pain research subgroup and the Scottish Pain Research Community.
Professor Sandosh Padmanabhan MD PhD FRCP FAHA (University of Glasgow)
Sandosh Padmanabhan is Professor of Cardiovascular Genomics and Therapeutics at the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences within the University of Glasgow. His research interests are in cardiovascular and renal genetic epidemiology and pharmacogenomics primarily focused on the genetics of antihypertensive drug response. Sandosh has led a number of studies using the GS resources. He is member of the editorial board of Hypertension and Journal of Hypertension, the meetings committee of the British Pharmacologic Society and the research committee of the Wellcome Trust/Public Health Foundation of India. Additionally, he is section editor of Physiological Genomics and Cardiovascular Risk Reports, and he
Professor Corri Black MBChB, MRCP, MFPH (UK), FFPH (University of Aberdeen)
Professor Corri Black is a Co-Director of the Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science, Deputy Director of Farr Institute@Scotland, Associate Director of HDRUK@Scotland and has 18 years experience of harnessing electronic health record data for research. As a Consultant in Public Health, she works for NHS Grampian supporting the use of data to drive quality improvement and in population health surveillance. She is the Clinical Lead for the Grampian Data Safe Haven. Working with colleagues, her research has included real world data pharmaceutical research and now focuses on understanding complexity in health in long term conditions and across the life course.
Former Founding members
Professor Anna Dominiczak (University of Glasgow)
Professor Anna Dominiczak is Regius Professor of Medicine, Vice Principal and Head of College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow as well as honorary consultant physician with the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board. She led the GS:SFHS research site at Glasgow and was Principal Investigator of the Biomarkers for Battling Chronic Diseases project. Anna has a major research interest in cardiovascular disease, genomics and biomarkers. She has published over 300 papers and has attracted over £30 million in peer-reviewed grant funding.
Anna was a British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine (1997-2010) and Director of the British Heart Foundation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the American Heart Association. She was awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to medicine. In 2016, Professor Dominiczak was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to cardiovascular and medical science.
Professor Andrew Morris (University of Edinburgh)
Andrew is Professor of Medicine, Director of the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics and Vice Principal for Data Science at the University of Edinburgh. He is also Chief Scientist at the Scottish Government Health Directorate and Chairman and Centre Director of the Farr Institute Scotland. He was previously Professor of Medicine and Director of the Biomedical Research Institute at the University of Dundee where he led a translational research team using informatics to define the epidemiological and molecular aetiological basis of diabetes and its complications. Andrew was Principal Investigator of GS:SFHS.
Andrew has a major interest in how managed clinical networks can improve patient care across geographical boundaries. He leads the DARTS research study, has published over 250 original papers, and has attracted over £20 million in peer reviewed grant funding. Andrew was Lead Clinician for Diabetes in Scotland (2002–2006) and led a national programme of quality improvement in diabetes care. He is also a Governor of the Health Foundation and chairs the Translational Medicine Research Collaboration Steering Group. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science.
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