Ewen Harrison
Professor of Surgery and Data Science, Head of Centre for Medical Informatics
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- 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
Ewen is Professor of Surgery and Data Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Consultant HPB and Transplant Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Interests include crowd-sourcing patient-level date; surgical trials, particularly in low resource settings; mobile data collection platforms and "wearables"; automated data processing and display; natural language processing/sentiment analysis; decision modelling; Bayesian statistics; administrative data analysis; and patient reported outcomes.
He leads the NIHR Unit on Global Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, a collaboration with the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick. This provides a patform for the GlobalSurg Collaborative (globalsurg.org), an international collaboration of 5000 individuals in 420 centres across 102 countries studying outcomes in general surgery and quality improvement.
He has an MSc in Statistics and is an Editor for HPB. His work is funded by the NIHR, Wellcome Trust, MRC and Academy of Medical Sciences. He has given the British Journal of Surgery Lecture 2017 at the 12th annual Academic Surgical Congress, the Honyman Gillespie Lecture 2016m and the Macewan Lecture 2016 at the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He has recently completed a James IV Travelling Fellowship UK and Davies Travelling Fellowship in Sub-Saharan Africa and North America.
He is the Programme Director for the Masters in Surgery degree at the University of Edinburgh - a distance learning qualification which allows surgeons to train while continuing to work in their home country.
In 2023 he was awarded an OBE for services to the Covid-19 response, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB commendation) June 1999, University of Glasgow
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) July 2008. "Pharmacological strategies to reduce ischemi-reperfusion injury in kidney transplantation", University of Edinburgh
- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS Gen surg) June 2011. Sub-specialty exam: transplantation, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
- Graduate Certificate in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, June 2012
- MSc Statistics with Medical Applications, University of Sheffield, November 2015
Responsibilities & affiliations
2007 – 2008 President: Association of Surgeons in Training UK
2006 – 2007 Vice-President: Association of Surgeons in Training UK
2006 – 2008 Council: Royal College of Surgeons of England
2007 – 2009 Council: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
2006 – 2008 Council: Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
2006 – 2007 Council: Society of Academic and Research Surgery
2007 – 2008 Committee: Joint Committee for (Higher) Surgical Training
2005 – 2007 Committee: Specialty Transitional Board for Surgery
2006 – 2007 Working party: ISCP Working Party on Selection
2013 – 2016 Education and Training Committee: International Society of Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery
2015 – 2018 Trakcare Board (responsible for oversight of the NHS Lothian Electronic Patient Record)
2016 – present Publication Committee: International Society of Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery
2017 – 2018 Honorary Secretary: Royal Society of Medicine Surgery Section
2017 – present Communications Committee: European-African HPB Association
2017 – present Communications Committee: ASGBI
2016 – present Committee: Scottish Global Health Committee Executive
2016 – present Committee: Global Health Committee, Royal College Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
2017 – 2018 Honorary Secretary: Royal Society of Medicine Surgery Section
Editor
2013 - present Associate Editor: HPB Journal
2017 - present Associate Editor: The Surgeon
2018 - 2019 Associate Editor: Trials
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An external validation of the QCOVID3 risk prediction algorithm for risk of hospitalisation and death from COVID-19: An observational, prospective cohort study of 1.66m vaccinated adults in Wales, UK
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 18, pp. e0285979
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285979
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Evaluation of remote digital postoperative wound monitoring in routine surgical practice
In:
npj Digital Medicine, vol. 6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00824-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Determinants of recovery from post-COVID-19 dyspnoea: analysis of UK prospective cohorts of hospitalised COVID-19 patients and community-based controls
In:
The Lancet Regional Health Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100635
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Effects of sleep disturbance on dyspnoea and impaired lung function following hospital admission due to COVID-19 in the UK: a prospective multicentre cohort study
In:
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(23)00124-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Implausible algorithm output in UK liver transplantation allocation scheme: importance of transparency
In:
The Lancet, vol. 401, pp. 911-912
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00114-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Prevalence of physical frailty including risk factors up to one year after hospitalisation for COVID-19 in the UK: a multicentre, longitudinal cohort study
In:
EClinicalMedicine, vol. 57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.101896
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)