Social and Community Medicine

Professor Tony Ades, Methods for evidence synthesis in epidemiology and decision modelling.

Dr Tim Amos, Forensic mental health including homicide and violence linked to mental illness, suicide and self-harm, and risk assessment and management.

Professor Ricardo Araya, RCTs and epidemiological research on anxiety and depression; community, primary care and school interventions; mental health research in low- and middle-income countries.

Dr Suzanne Audrey, Adolescent health; health inequalities; qualitative research methods, process evaluation.

Professor Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Epidemiology of neurological disease; deprivation and health; equity and access to health care; lifecourse and adult disease; the health of carers.

Dr Kristina Bennert, Qualitative research methods; discourse analysis; improving doctor-patient communication; shared decision-making; decision support; perinatal mental health.

Dr Lucy Biddle, Sociology applied to health and healthcare, help-seeking behaviour and health services utilisation, young adults' mental health, suicide, bereavement, qualitative research methods.

Dr Peter Blair, Medical statistics; sudden death in childhood; infant care practices; sleep; weight gain; study design and methodology.

Professor Jane Blazeby, Patient-reported outcomes research with a particular focus on randomized trials in oncology and surgery; clinical decision-making in multi-disciplinary teams and developing systems to improve informed consent for surgery.

Dr Sara Brookes, Methodology of randomised controlled trials and the individualisation of treatments; methods of subgroup analyses and their interpretation; and n-of-1 or single patients trials.

Professor Rona Campbell, Adolescent health promotion and protection; evaluation of complex interventions to improve public health; use of quantitative and qualitative methods in public health and health services research; developing methods for synthesising qualitative research; smoking prevention and cessation; patient decision-making about end of life treatment and care; compliance with therapy.

Dr Rachel Churchill, Psychiatric epidemiology and quantitative research methods; the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders; systematic review and meta-analyses of randomized and nonrandomized studies; overviews of systematic reviews; Cochrane reviews; randomised controlled trials; evidence-based mental health and evidence-informed decision-making; health services research in general.

Dr Céire Costelloe, Antibiotic resistance in antibiotic use in primary care; infections, immunology and neuroimmunology; medical statistics.

Dr Helen Cramer, Qualitative and ethnographic methods; depression and anxiety; management of cardiovascular disease; gendered services; complementary and alternative health.

Dr Esther Crawley, CFS/ME in children.

Professor Ian Day, Genetic epidemiology at populational, family and molecular levels; studies of rarer sequence diversity of major importance to the individual; synthesis of molecular, informatic and statistical approaches in genetic epidemiology and application to problems of translational value in medicine.

Dr Zuzana Deans, Research ethics; ethics of genetics and reproductive technologies; normative/philosophical ethics; methodology in applied ethics; pharmacy practice ethics.

Dr Toity Deave, Fathers, child health and wellbeing.

Dr Sofia Dias, Bayesian evidence synthesis and meta-analysis in decision modelling; network meta-analysis (mixed treatment comparisons) and evidence consistency; infertility.

Professor Jenny Donovan, Social sciences applied to health and health services research (HSR); employing qualitative research methods in HSR and particularly challenging randomised controlled trials; combining qualitative and quantitative methods; perceptions and experiences of health and health care; concepts of health and illness; treatment of prostate cancer.

Dr Matthew Ellis, International child health.

Dr Pauline Emmett, Nutritional epidemiology

Professor Alan Emond, Child development; growth faltering; adolescent risk-taking.

Dr David Evans, Genome-wide association of complex traits and diseases; genetic epidemiology; genetical genomics; statistical methods of gene mapping; discovery of ankylosing spondylitis and osteoporosis genes via genome-wide association.

Dr Jonathan Evans, Primarily epidemiology; research into maternal mental health and child development (particular focus on antenatal depression); interventions to improve maternal depression and mother-child interactions; emotional processing, social cognition and mental health; suicide and self-harm epidemiology and psychological antecedents.

Professor Gene Feder, Domestic violence; primary care management of cardiovascular disease.

Professor Peter Fleming, Safeguarding; infant physiology; sleep disorders.

Dr Abigail Fraser, Lifecourse epidemiology of diabetes; cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and women's reproductive health.

Dr Tom Gaunt, Molecular genetics and genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular and metabolic disease; bioinformatic analyses of human genetic, genomic and genome-wide association study data.

Professor Jean Golding, Nutrition and neuro-cognitive development.

Professor David Gunnell, Epidemiology and prevention of suicide, self-harm and psychiatric disorders; suicide and self-harm by pesticide self-poisoning in developing countries; early life origins of psychiatric disorder.

Dr Willie Hamilton, Diagnosis of cancer in primary care; chronic fatigue syndrome.

Dr Alastair Hay, Diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of infections, infectious diseases and bacterial resistance to antibiotics in primary care.

Dr Alison Heawood, Qualitative research methods; patients' and health professionals' perspectives; risk perception and communication; complementary and alternative medicine.

Professor John Henderson, Epidemiology of respiratory conditions.

Professor Matthew Hickman, Public health surveillance and epidemiology; epidemiology and prevention of public health problems associated with injecting and problem drug use; use of infectious disease modelling; indirect estimation methods.

Dr Sandra Hollinghurst, Economics of primary care; economic evaluation.

Professor Will Hollingworth, The impact of illness and injury on the financial solvency of patients and their families; the diagnostic and therapeutic impact of medical imaging and its effect on patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness; patterns of and reasons for clinicians' adoption of emerging technologies and abandonment of obsolete technologies.

Dr Jeremy Horwood, Users' experience of health services; acceptability of clinical interventions; chronic illness; pain management; illness perceptions.

Dr Laura Howe, Socioeconomic inequalities; childhood obesity (risk factors, consequences and inequalities); lifecourse epidemiology of obesity and cardiovascular disease; childhood growth.

Dr Richard Huxtable, Health care law; end of life; clinical ethics; surgical ethics; paediatric ethics.

Dr Jenny Ingram, Breastfeeding; health service evaluation.

Dr Mona Jeffreys, Cancer epidemiology; inequality in cancer outcomes by deprivation and ethnicity; cancer screening; measuring equality in access to health care; breast cancer; breast density; HPV vaccination.

Dr Carol Joinson, Developmental psychology and adolescent depression.

Dr David Kessler, Common mental disorders in primary care.

Dr Judi Kidger, Young people's health behaviour; school-based health interventions; sexual health; peer education; early parenthood; young people's mental health; mixed methods research.

Dr Ruth Kippling, Public health research; obesity; young people?s health behaviour; school-based health interventions.

Dr Helen Lambert, Medical anthropology in and of public health; public understandings of biomedicine and heredity; issues of evidence in medicine and anthropology; sexual health and HIV prevention; medical pluralism; South Asia.

Dr Athene Lane, Methodology and conduct of randomized controlled trials; prostate cancer health services research; epidemiology of prostate cancer, especially dietary factors; gastroenterology and Helicobacter pylori; questionnaire design and implementation.

Professor Debbie Lawlor, Life-course and genetic epidemiology of insulin resistance, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and women's reproductive health.

Dr Sarah Lewis, Genetic epidemiology, in particular identifying genetic associations within multi-factorial diseases, and using genes as an epidemiological tool to elucidate mechanisms of complex diseases.

Dr Fiona MacKichan, Qualitative and multi/mixed method approaches; patient perspectives (especially over time); illness behaviour, lay/professional interface; ageing and health and well-being in older age; chronic pain.

Professor John Macleod, The evaluation of primary care interventions, particularly in the areas of sexual health, problem drug use and melioration of cardiovascular risk; life-course epidemiology and the epidemiology of health inequalities; epidemiology of problem drug use; psychological influences on physical health; data linkage and the use of population data repositories in epidemiology and health services research.

Dr Andrea Malizia, Application of neuroimaging to understand the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders; neurobiology of anxiety disorders.

Dr Alice Malpass, Qualitative methods including meta-ethnography; psychological interventions for women experiencing domestic violence; mindful based cognitive therapy for patients with respiratory illness and anxiety; patient-clinician decision making.

Professor Richard Martin, Aetiological epidemiology with particular interest in aetiology of cancer and cardiovascular disease; pharmacoepidemiology; early nutritional influences on later health; prostate cancer screening.

Dr Margaret May, Statistical methods for epidemiology and health services research; prognostic modelling and validation methods, particularly applied to HIV, cardiovascular disease and kidney failure; methods for longitudinal data analysis of cohort studies.

Dr Jan Melichar, Clinical psychopharmacology; clinical and healthy volunteer trials; addiction; affective disorders; taste; sensory neurosciences.

Dr Chris Metcalfe, The development of approaches to the evaluation of statistical methods in practical contexts; the development of statistical methods for outcome measures based upon recurrent events; the development of statistical methods and experimental design in cancer epidemiology, health services research, and psychotherapy research.

Professor Ruud ter Meulen, Care of the elderly; justice in health care; evidence-based medicine; research ethics.

Laura Miller, Epidemiology of speech and language development; generic epidemiological concepts; interest in mental health issues; statistical expertise.

Dr Sian Noble, Health economics; methodology of economic evaluations alongside randomised controlled trials with particular interest in trials relating to cancer.

Dr Amanda Owen-Smith, Priority setting in healthcare; qualitative research methods; obesity; mental health.

Professor Tim Peters, Medical statistics; health services research; risk assessment; effectiveness of health care interventions; cluster randomisation.

Dr John Potokar, Academic Liaison Psychiatrist; mood and medical illness; links between brain, mind and body including stress responses, immune and 5-HT function.

Dr Sarah Purdy, Prediction of unplanned hospital admission; shoulder pain; dermatology in primary care.

Dr Muireann Quigley, Bioethics and medical law: organ donation and transplantation; property in the body; uses of human biomaterials.

Professor Caroline Relton, Epigenetic epidemiology; molecular epidemiology, including laboratory-based analyses; methods to understand the causal role of epigenetic variation in development and disease.

Dr Matthew Ridd, Continuity of patient care; patient-doctor communication and longitudinal relationships; common mental health problems; diagnosis and management of skin problems commonly seen in primary care.

Dr Santiago Rodriguez, Genetic epidemiology, population genetics and molecular genetics; study of the influence that genetic factors have on complex risk traits for common human diseases from an evolutionary, epidemiological and functional point of view.

Professor Chris Salisbury, Improving primary health care delivery; new models of primary care; co-morbidity; core values of primary care (access, continuity, co-ordination, generalism).

Professor Deborah Sharp, Research methodology; women's health; mental health in primary care; primary/secondary interface; complementary and alternative medicine.

Professor George Davey Smith, Mendelian randomization; lifecourse influences on chronic disease in adulthood; genetic epidemiology.

Professor Jonathan Sterne, Clinical epidemiology of HIV and other sexually-transmitted infections, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, statistical methods for causal inference, epidemiology of asthma and allergy.

Dr Clare Thomas, Health psychology and health behaviour change; RCTs; qualitative methods.

Professor Kate Tilling, Lifecourse epidemiology and methods; childhood growth and its relationship to later outcomes; modelling PSA in men with prostate cancer; longitudinal/multilevel models; causal models.

Dr Nicholas Timpson, Genetic epidemiology and biological anthropology; genome-wide association of complex traits and diseases; Mendelian randomisation; discovery and use of genomic variation associated with common disease phenotypes and lifecourse events/trajectories including type 2 diabetes, 'metabolic syndrome', obesity/adiposity, blood pressure, growth, height, inflammation.

Professor Elizabeth Towner, Child and adolescent injury.

Dr Katrina Turner, Using qualitative research methods in health service research; qualitative studies nested within RCTs; depression, including postnatal and antenatal; childhood obesity.

Dr Julia Wade, Qualitative methods applied to RCT recruitment and participation (investigating informed consent processes, experiences of trial participation and experiences of prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment).

Dr Nicky Welton, Value of information methods for research prioritisation; multi-parameter evidence synthesis for decision modelling; network meta-analysis.

Dr Nicola Wiles, RCTs and epidemiological research on anxiety and depression.

Ms Cathy Williams, Paediatric opthalmology.

Dr Sue Wilson, Neurotransmitters and sleep in depression, anxiety, substance abuse; sleep disorders such as insomnia and parasomnia.

Dr Lesley Wye, End-of-life care; community nursing; quality indicators; complementary; commissioning; knowledge exchange/research implementation.

Dr Stanley Zammit, Psychoses, cannabis, schizophrenia including epidemiological and treatment studies.

Dr Luisa Zuccolo, Mendelian randomization, in particular applied to environmental/behavioural exposures and prostate cancer and health effects of alcohol consumption (including prenatal alcohol exposure).