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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Linkage of primary care prescribing records and pharmacy dispensing Records in the Salford Lung Study: application in asthma
In:
BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01184-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Treatment of allergic rhinitis during and outside the pollen season using mobile technology. A MASK study
In:
Clinical and translational allergy, vol. 10, pp. 62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13601-020-00342-x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Nrf2-interacting nutrients and COVID-19: time for research to develop adaptation strategies
In:
Clinical and translational allergy, vol. 10, pp. 58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13601-020-00362-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Vaccine effectiveness of live attenuated and trivalent inactivated influenza vaccination in 2010/11 to 2015/16: the SIVE II record linkage study
In:
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta24670
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
COVID-19 in Pregnancy in Scotland (COPS): protocol for an observational study using linked Scottish national data
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042813
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Hormonal contraception and the risk of severe asthma exacerbation: 17-year population-based cohort study
In:
Thorax, pp. thoraxjnl-2020-215540
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215540
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Incidence, nature and causes of avoidable significant harm in primary care in England: retrospective case note review
In:
BMJ Quality & Safety
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2020-011405
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Enabling a healthy Start for vulnerable newborns
In:
The Lancet, vol. 396, pp. 1490
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32235-2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Letter (Published) -
Multicentre Randomised Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Trial of Cytisine for Smoking Cessation in Smokers with Tuberculosis
In:
The Lancet Global Health, vol. 8, pp. e1408-e1417
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Cytisine for smoking cessation in patients with tuberculosis: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial
In:
The Lancet Global Health, vol. 8, pp. e1408-e1417
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30312-0
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)