Aziz Sheikh (OBE, FRSE, FMedSci)
Professor of Primary Care Research and Development
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – The University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
- Street
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Usher Institute – The University of Edinburgh
NINE Edinburgh BioQuarter
9 Little France Road - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh is Director of the Usher Institute. He is also Dean of Data for The University of Edinburgh, Director of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR), Director of the Scottish Allergy and Respiratory Academy (SARA), and Co-Director of the NHS Digital Academy Digital Health Leadership Programme.
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, and received a knighthood for services to COVID-19 research and policy in 2022.
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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Racial, ethnic, and migrant inequalities in respiratory health
In:
ERS Monograph
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Severity of BA.2 variant and vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease in Scotland
In:
The Lancet Regional Health Europe, vol. 23, pp. 100533
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100533
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
Rebound in asthma exacerbations following relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions: a longitudinal population-based study (COVIDENCE UK)
In:
Thorax
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2022-219591
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Identification by cluster analysis of patients with asthma and nasal symptoms using the MASK-air® mHealth app
In:
Pediatric Pulmonology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pulmoe.2022.10.005
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Real-world data using mHealth apps in rhinitis, rhinosinusitis and their multimorbidities
In:
Clinical and translational allergy, vol. 12, pp. e12208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/clt2.12208
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Scaling-up a pharmacist-led information technology intervention (PINCER) to reduce hazardous prescribing in general practices: Multiple interrupted time series study
In:
PLoS Medicine, vol. 19, pp. e1004133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004133
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Uptake of monoclonal antibodies and anti-viral therapies for COVID-19 in Scotland
In:
The Lancet
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Letter (Accepted/In press) -
Studying the Long-term Impact of COVID-19 in Kids (SLICK). Healthcare use and costs in children and young people following community-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection: protocol for an observational study using linked primary and secondary routinely collected healthcare data from England, Scotland and Wales
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 12, pp. e063271
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063271
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Derivation of Asthma Severity from Electronic Prescription Records using British Thoracic Society Treatment Steps
In:
BMC pulmonary medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-02189-3
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Consistent trajectories of rhinitis control and treatment in 16,177 weeks: The MASK-air® longitudinal study
In:
Allergy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/all.15574
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)