Study Advisory Group
Providing the project with oversight and advice.
The Study Advisory Group convenes twice a year to provide oversight, advice and guidance. The group consists of two NIHR-nominees and nine independent experts.
Members
Brian has enjoyed a long and varied career, having been a line manager in various industrial companies, a partner in an international management and technology consulting firm, and the CEO and Chair of two engineering companies. His experience with two chronic conditions, and time spent as Chair of the NHS Board for Lothian gives him a very singular insight into multimorbidity.
Colin is actively involved as a patient representative on several UK University research projects.
Colin: “I am passionate about ensuring that every voice matters and passionate about lessening the health and social care inequalities. As a former Patient Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (Scotland) and a lay member in my local Health and Social Care Partnership and NHS, I ensure that my voice is heard. I represent my locality in Seniors Together and recently became a member of SOPA."
Heather Cordell is Professor of Statistical Genetics, and the holder of a Wellcome Investigator Award in Science, in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University, UK. Read more about Heather at the link below:
Leanne is one of the two MLTC Research portfolio leads in the DHSC.
Anni co-leads the MLTC research portfolio with Leanne Dew in the Department of Health and Social Care.
Alison is an ESRC-Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Prior to joining Glasgow, she was a Professor of Geocomputation in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds and an associate of Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA). She is an expert in the development of spatial agent-based models (ABMs) with a focus on understanding and simulating behaviour. Read more about Alison at the link below:
Colin is a volunteer member of the Patient and Public Involvement Group at the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility at the Western General Hospital Edinburgh/University of Edinburgh. It was through this that he became involved in the development of the AIM-CISC proposal to NIHR and now continues his involvement as part of the Public Reference Group. He has a number of lifelong chronic conditions and is a regular user of health services. Accordingly he has significant experience to contribute and a direct interest in the future design of services and management of chronic conditions. Colin works full time and has a background in health policy development and NHS management. He is also an honorary senior lecturer in health policy at the University of Glasgow and at the University of Strathclyde.
David is internationally recognized for his work on computer vision, particularly in the areas of video analysis and activity recognition. He works extensively across disciplinary boundaries, applying AI in engineering design, biology, medicine and environmental sciences. Read more about David at the link below:
John’s main epidemiological research interests are the explanation and amelioration of health inequality with a particular focus on the role of factors acting in earlier life and the use of routine data in epidemiological research. Clinically his research has focused on the treatment of substance use in the community and on screening and treatment for Chlamydia in primary care.
He is a co-director of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and leads a Wellcome Trust funded programme developing methods to follow-up population based cohorts through linkage to administrative health and social data. Read more about John at the link below:
Mario is currently overseeing several NIHR research programmes. Read more about Mario at the link below:
Christiane is currently head of department of general practice and family medicine at Bielefeld University. Her research focuses on clinical decision support in chronic diseases with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. Read more about Christiane at the link below:
Avan Aihie Sayer is an Honorary Consultant Geriatrician whose sub-speciality interests are in ageing, sarcopenia and multiple long-term conditions.
William Leech Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Newcastle University, Avan is an NIHR Senior Investigator and Director of the NIHR Newcstle Biomedical Research Centre.
Read more about Avan at the link below:
Sarah leads a team at Edinburgh Innovations to deliver a joined-up commercialisation service for the Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the Usher Institute.
A student at the University of Cambridge and UCL, Sarah then worked in research at the University of Edinburgh. She moved on to become a Senior Research Scientist at IOmet Pharma before starting work with Edinburgh Innovations, managing the Wellcome Trust Translational Partnership Award.
Kelly completed her undergraduate studies at Southampton University, after which she joined Springer Nature Group, before joining The Academy of Medical Sciences as a Grants Manager. She then spent over two years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a Project Manager for vaccine studies based across Africa. Kelly now works at NIHR overseeing a varied portfolio including studies developing artificial intelligence for multiple long-term conditions (MLTC).
Bruce Guthrie is Professor of General Practice at the Usher Institute, in the Edinburgh Medical School. He is also the director of the Advanced Care Research Centre.
Bruce is a mixed methods health services researcher with an interest in the quality and safety of health and social care, particularly in relation to multimorbidity and polypharmacy. As well as research, he works clinically as a GP and works closely with the NHS and government to improve healthcare quality and safety. Find out more about Bruce at the link below:
As our AI Coordinator Luna De Ferrari keeps track of all the research work and co-ordinates the efforts of the Objectives.
Luna received a MSc in Industrial Biotechnology from the University of Milan Biocca and her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh. She has held postdoctoral research positions at the University of St. Andrews, and at Edinburgh University in the MRC Human Genetics Unit and the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre.