Cohort 2
Leadership Programme Cohort 2
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I have a background in epidemiology and trials. Until recently I worked at the MRC General Practice Research Framework working on trials and a large cohort study. I am now at UCL. My research interest areas include mental health (dementia and co-morbidity, dementia screening) and infections (STIs and partner notification). I conduct primary research as well as secondary data analysis using The Health Improvement Network (THIN) dataset. I am leading a systematic review into attrition in RCTs. I continue to work part-time as a GP in Islington, London. I am part of the Clinical Studies Group for DeNDRoN and also sit on the HTA commissioning panel for Community and Psychological Therapies. I am Deputy Director of the PRIMENT Clinical Trials Unit and also a London RDS clinical advisor. |
Leadership Programme Cohort 2
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Nick Steel is Clinical Senior Lecturer in Primary Care at Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia, and Honorary Consultant in Public Health at NHS Norfolk. After graduating from medical school in 1988, he worked in hospitals and general practice in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. He became interested in research as a principal in general practice in Norwich, and then trained in public health and health policy at Norfolk Primary Care Trust, the University of Cambridge, and RAND Health in California, USA. His research interests are in health services and improving the quality of health care. Current research projects involve assessing the applicability of NICE guidelines to primary care, managing referrals in general practice, measuring health care quality in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, assessing access to hip and knee surgery using national surveys in England and the USA, and evaluating local and national effects of UK quality improvement initiatives, including the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework for general practices. He teaches medical students and doctors in training at UEA, and doctors and specialists on the NHS regional public health training programme. He is a member of the NICE Primary Care Quality and Outcomes Framework Indicator Advisory Committee and NIHR Health Delivery Research Panel and Research for Patient Benefit Committee. |
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I was trained in The Netherlands as a General Practitioner in 1989 and in tropical medicine in 1990. From 1990 to 1994 I worked for Médecins Sans Frontières in primary health care assistance projects in Asia and Africa and subsequently obtained a Masters degree in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1995. Having had a taste of the improtance of research to improving clinical care and access to health I embarked on an academic career at the University of Ghent in Belgium in 1998. My PhD thesis on the implementation of evidence in clinical care, explored the medical, contextual and policy related aspects of scientific evidence with special focus on rational use of antibiotics. I am passionate about improving access and better use of evidence in clinical practice and continue to work in the field of wide range of common presentations in primary care, including respiratory infections. Over the years I have developed a special interest and focus on vulnerable groups in our society, such as the Indigenous and migrant populations in Australia, many of whom could benefit even more from already available evidence and better access to care. Following participation in the 2007 BI cohort, I moved to Australia with my family in 2008 where I took up the chair of General Practice and role of Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine at Bond University, Queensland. Since November 2011 I am head of the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. My role as coordinator of the Global and Community Medicine Courses in the preclinical curriculum, allows me to use my own experiences as a "global doctor" to introduce and inspire students to their roles in an increasingly global health environment. My research interests cover all aspects of implementing evidence in clinical practice, which includes collecting, appraising and summarising research in systematic reviews and guidelines, translating this evidence into a clinical context and exploring ways to better intergrate evidence into day to day patient care. I have established a collaboration with lab-based scientists exploring immunological biomarkers for chronic fatigue syndrome and related auto-immune disorders. I take part in an Australian study on implementation of prevention guidelines and am part of a special interest group in pharmacoepidemiology. As an editor of the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group, I coach medical students and other colleagues in conducting systematic reviews. I teach African Family Medicine registrars in a research methods course in Kenya, Eastern Africa. Research collaborations with old and new BI colleagues and especially with my “BI-OZ” colleagues have resulted in exciting joint projects (e.g. a longitudinal cohort study of GP registrars’ consulting and prescribing behaviour) and publications (e.g. reporting of socio-economic status in clinical trials). |