Aziz Sheikh (OBE, FRSE, FMedSci)
Chair of Primary Care Research and Development
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
NINE
9 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Professor Sheikh is Director of the Usher Institute. He is also Director of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR), Director of the Scottish Allergy and Respiratory Academy (SARA), Director of the NIHR Global Respiratory Health Unit (RESPIRE) and is Co-Director of the NHS Digital Academy.
Qualifications
BSc, MBBS, MSc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP, FRCPE, FFPH, FACMI, FFCI, FRSE, FMedSci
Responsibilities & affiliations
Currently Aziz holds a number of visiting chairs, namely: University of Birmingham (UK), Queen Mary’s University of London (UK) and Maastricht University (Netherlands). He was previously Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
He is an editorial board member of BMC Medicine, Health Informatics Journal, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Medical Care and PLOS Medicine, and is Editor-in-Chief of npj: Primary Care Respiratory Medicine.
Aziz was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for Services to Medicine and Health Care by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2014.
Research summary
Aziz is a primary care academic and epidemiologist with substantial research interests in asthma/allergy and in leveraging the potential of health information technology and data science to transfrom the delivery of care and improve population health.
He enjoys collaborations with academic colleagues across the globe and works closely with policymakers both in the UK and internationally.
He has held research grants in excess of $90m, publishes regulalrly in the world's foremost journals, has over 50,000 citations to his work and is a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate, 2018).
Project activity
Aziz's projects include work on health inequalities and asthma.
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A mixed-methods analysis of patient safety incidents involving opioid substitution treatment with methadone or buprenorphine in community-based care in England and Wales
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Ethnic variations in falls and road traffic injuries resulting in hospitalisation or death in Scotland: the Scottish Health and Ethnicity Linkage Study (SHELS) Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2020.01.013
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Maternal iron supplementation in pregnancy and asthma in the offspring: follow-up of a randomised trial in Finland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02335-2019
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Research priorities in pediatric asthma: Results of a global survey of multiple stakeholder groups by the Pediatric Asthma in Real Life (PeARL) Think Tank
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Development and Reporting of Prediction Models: Guidance for Authors From Editors of Respiratory, Sleep, and Critical Care Journals
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Global and regional burden of chronic respiratory disease in 2016 arising from non-infectious airborne occupational exposures: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2019-106013
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Improving air quality needs to be a policy priority for governments globally
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003041
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Correlation between work impairment, scores of rhinitis severity and asthma using the MASK‐air® App
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Optimising electronic prescribing in hospitals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2019-100117
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From Learning Healthcare Systems to Learning Health Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/lrh2.10216