Aziz Sheikh (OBE, FRSE, FMedSci)
Chair of Primary Care Research and Development
- Usher Institute
- 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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Key Challenges and Opportunities for Cloud Technology in Health Care: Semistructured Interview Study
In:
JMIR Human Factors, vol. 9, pp. e31246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/31246
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Two-dose ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine protection against COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths over time: a retrospective, population-based cohort study in Scotland and Brazil
(10 pages)
In:
The Lancet, vol. 399, pp. 25-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02754-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Severity of Omicron variant of concern and vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease: national cohort with nested test negative design study in Scotland
Research output: › Preprint (Published) -
Benefits realization management in the context of a national digital transformation initiative in English provider organizations
In:
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab283
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Driving digital health transformation in hospitals: a formative qualitative evaluation of the English Global Digital Exemplar programme
In:
BMJ Health & Care Informatics, vol. 28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2021-100429
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Prospective validation of the 4C prognostic models for adults hospitalised with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol
In:
Thorax
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217629
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Retrospective cohort study to evaluate medication use in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in Scotland: protocol for a national observational study
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 11, pp. e054861
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054861
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Effectiveness of mobile health interventions to improve nasal corticosteroid adherence in allergic rhinitis: A systematic review
In:
Clinical and translational allergy, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/clt2.v11.9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
External validation of the QCovid risk prediction algorithm for risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation and mortality in adults: national validation cohort study in Scotland
In:
Thorax
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217580
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection
In:
Nature Medicine
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press)