Aziz Sheikh

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

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).