Aziz Sheikh (OBE, FRSE, FMedSci)
Chair of Primary Care Research and Development
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics
- 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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Patient safety incidents in primary care dentistry in England and Wales: mixed methods study
In:
Journal of patient safety
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/PTS.0000000000000530
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Environmental tobacco smoke exposure among electronic cigarette users
(97 pages)
In:
Addictive behaviors, vol. 89, pp. 92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.09.026
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of lower respiratory infections in 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
In:
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30310-4
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Measuring the quality of primary health care: A regional initiative in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
(17 pages)
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
At-Risk Registers Integrated into primary care to Stop Asthma crises in the UK (ARRISA-UK): : study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised trial with nested health economic and process evaluations
In:
Trials
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2816-z
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
(1035 pages)
In:
The Lancet, vol. 392, no. 10152, pp. 1015
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
The development and validation of a multivariable prognostic model to predict foot ulceration in diabetes using a systematic review and individual patient data meta‐analyses
In:
Diabetic Medicine, pp. 1480-1493
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.13797
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Dangers of COPD and asthma under-recognised among Hajj pilgrims
In:
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30297-2
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Health care robotics – qualitative exploration of key challenges and future directions
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 20, no. 7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/10410
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
High health gain patients with asthma : a cross-sectional study analysing national Scottish data sets
In:
npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-018-0094-6
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)