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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Investigating the Epidemiology of Medication Errors in Adults in Community Care Settings : A Retrospective Cohort Study in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
In:
Saudi Medical Journal
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) -
Control of Confounding and Reporting of Results in Causal Inference Studies : Guidance for Authors from Editors of Respiratory, Sleep, and Critical Care Journals
In:
Annals of the American Thoracic Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201808-564PS
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
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) -
Addendum to the Acknowledgements : How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. e11564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/11564
Contribution to journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
ARIA Phase 4 (2018) : Change management in allergic rhinitis and asthma multimorbidity using mobile technology
In:
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2018.08.049
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)