Aziz Sheikh (OBE, FRSE, FMedSci) | The University of Edinburgh

Chair of Primary Care Research and Development

Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Usher Institute

Street: Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9AG

Street: Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
NINE
9 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH16 4UX

Biography

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

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).

Projects

Project activity

Aziz's projects include work on health inequalities and asthma.

Project list on Edinburgh Research Explorer

Publications

Ten Principles for More Conservative, Care-Full Diagnosis (2 pages) 4 Jun 2019 In: Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 170, no. 11, pp. 823-824
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7326/L19-0149
Contribution to journal › Letter (Published)
NHS Scotland's Decision Support Platform: a formative qualitative evaluation 2 Jun 2019 In: BMJ Health & Care Informatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2019-100022
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Psychosocial working conditions, asthma self-management at work and asthma morbidity: a cross-sectional study 9 May 2019 In: Clinical and translational allergy, vol. 9, no. 25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13601-019-0264-9
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Systematic review of clinical prediction models to support the diagnosis of asthma in primary care 9 May 2019 In: npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-019-0132-z
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Systematic scoping review protocol of methodologies of chronic respiratory disease surveys in low/middle-income countries 8 May 2019 In: npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, vol. 29, no. 17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-019-0129-7
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Innovations in Health Care Delivery: Drug Allergy 17 May 2019 In: The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2019.04.050
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
2019 ARIA Care pathways for allergen immunotherapy 7 Apr 2019 In: Allergy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/all.13805
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Mobile technology offers novel insights on control and treatment of allergic rhinitis. The MASK study 3 Apr 2019 In: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2019.01.053
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Past, present, and future of global health financing: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 195 countries, 1995-2050 25 Apr 2019 In: The Lancet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30841-4
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
The Patient Needs in Asthma Treatment (NEAT) questionnaire : Further evidence on its psychometric properties 15 Apr 2019 In: Allergy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/all.13782
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)

This article was published on Jun 24, 2019