Aziz Sheikh (OBE, FRSE, FMedSci)
Chair of Primary Care Research and Development
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
- Street
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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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Impact of first UK COVID-19 lockdown on hospital admissions: Interrupted time series study of 32 million people
In:
EClinicalMedicine, vol. 49, pp. 101462
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101462
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
'Managed convergence' in health system digitalisation
In:
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, pp. 1410768221098274
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768221098274
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Associations of body mass index with COVID-19 vaccine uptake, vaccine effectiveness and risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes after vaccination: a population-based cohort of 9 million people in England
In:
The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Community-based asthma assessment in young children: Adaptations for a multicentre longitudinal study in South Asia. Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Diseases
In:
Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Diseases
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Impact on emergency and elective hospital-based care in Scotland over the first 12 months of the pandemic: interrupted time-series analysis of national lockdowns
In:
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, pp. 014107682210952
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768221095239
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Severity of omicron variant of concern and effectiveness of vaccine boosters against symptomatic disease in Scotland (EAVE II): a national cohort study with nested test-negative design
In:
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00141-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Relationship between asthma and severe COVID-19: a national cohort study
In:
Thorax
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-218629
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Policy parameters for optimising hospital ePrescribing: An exploratory literature review of selected countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
In:
Digital Health, vol. 8, pp. 20552076221085074
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221085074
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccinations, incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 hospitalisations in Scotland in the Delta era
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 12, pp. 05008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.12.05008
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A Systematic Review on Clinical Safety and Efficacy of Vancomycin Loading Dose in Critically Ill Patients
In:
Antibiotics, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11030409
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published)