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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Automated classification of primary care patient safety incident report content and severity using supervised Machine Learning (ML) approaches
In:
Health Informatics Journal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458219833102
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Stakeholders perspectives and deployment strategies of health information exchange illustrated through an in-depth case study of Pakistan
In:
Informatics for Health and Social Care
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17538157.2019.1582053
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Vitamin D for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
In:
The Cochrane Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD013284
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Guidance to 2018 good practice: : ARIA digitally‑enabled, integrated, person‑centred care for rhinitis and asthma
In:
Clinical and translational allergy, vol. 9, no. 16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13601-019-0252-0
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Agreeing on global research priorities for medication safety: an international prioritisation exercise
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 9, no. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.09.010422
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Asthma: moving towards a global children's charter
In:
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30074-8
Contribution to journal › Editorial (Published) -
Investigating the Epidemiology of Medication Errors in Adults in Community Care Settings : A Retrospective Cohort Study in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
In:
Saudi Medical Journal, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 158-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.2.23933
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Muslim Communities learning about second-hand smoke in Bangladesh (MCLASS II) : study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of a community-based smoke-free homes intervention, with or without Indoor Air Quality feedback
In:
Trials
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3100-y
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
A pilot, open labelled, randomised controlled trial of hypertonic saline nasal irrigation and gargling for the common cold
In:
Scientific Reports
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37703-3
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Mortality, morbidity, and hospitalisations due to influenza lower respiratory tract infections, 2017 : an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(21 pages)
In:
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 69-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30496-X
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)