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Brian D Nicholson

MRCGP BSc MSc (Health Res) DPhil

Associate Professor

  • NHS General Practitioner
  • NIHR EME Advanced Fellow
  • NIHR Cancer Awareness Screening and Early Diagnosis Policy Research Unity - Co-Director
  • Affiliate Investigator - KPWHRI
  • Visiting Associate Professor - Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine - NTU Singapore

Contact information


brian.nicholson@phc.ox.ac.uk


+44 (0)1865 289300


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ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0661-7362

Diagnosis and Cancer in Primary Care

Brian's academic interests include cancer, global health, and evidence-based diagnosis.

His research aims to improve the diagnostic process for patients with symptoms of cancer. This work focusses on understanding symptoms, appropriate test use, and developing clinical pathways.

He leads the departmental Cancer Theme that conducts research in four main areas: health records data; implementation science; diagnostic reasoning; and clinical trials and prospective studies. He is Early Detection lead for the CRUK Oxford Cancer Centre investigating community-based multi-cancer testing. He is a member of the NIHR EME Committee and the CRUK EDD Committee.

He supervises DPhil and MSc students, medical students, postdocs, Academic Clinical Fellows. He is a GP in Oxford City.

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