Prof Niroshan Siriwardena Director of CaHRU and Professor of Primary and Prehospital Health Care. His research focuses on improving healthcare quality and outcomes in general practice, primary care and ambulance services through implementation science.

Prof Graham Law Professor of Medical Statistics in the School of Health and Social Care and CaHRU. His research focuses on epidemiological statistics and functional data analysis in clinical trials and large databases including the UK Biobank. He has worked in a wide range of fields including sleep medicine, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular epidemiology, gastrointestinal disease, pregnancy and childbirth.

Dr Zahid Asghar Senior lecturer in statistics in CaHRU and the School of Health and Social Care. His research focuses on mathematical and statistical modelling of acute, chronic and infectious disease epidemiology.

Dr Murray Smith Senior Research Fellow in Econometrics and Health Economics in CaHRU working on the Helicobacter Eradication Aspirin Trial (HEAT) and studies involving statistical and econometric analysis of panel data and large datasets.

Dr Coral Sirdifield Research fellow in CaHRU and the School of Health and Social Care with a wide-ranging interest in mapping health needs to inform evidence-based practice and quality improvement in healthcare. Her PhD focused on the prevalence of mental illness among offenders on probation and the role of the probation service in working with offenders with a mental illness.

Dr Stephanie Armstrong Lecturer in Health Quality Improvement in CaHRU working on the Wellcome Trust funded project, Network Exploring the Ethics of Ambulance Trials (NEAT). Her expertise is in qualitative methods and systematic reviews.

Dr Julie Pattinson Research assistant in CaHRU with expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies specifically grounded theory and interpretative phenomenological analysis, currently working on research led by Prof Siriwardena exploring reasons for variations in performance in the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) Applied Knowledge Test (AKT).

Viet-Hai Phung Research assistant in CaHRU and the School of Health & Social Care. His research focuses on prehospital quality improvement including the PhOEBE programme, with a specific emphasis on ambulance service outcomes. He is studying for a PhD on delivering ambulance service care that meets the needs of EU Accession migrants in Lincolnshire.

Despina Laparidou Research assistant in CaHRU working on the multidisciplinary ‘Carers of Dementia Sufferers: Empowerment and Efficacy via Education (CADS: E3)’ and the ‘Improving prescribing safety in general practices in the East Midlands through the PINCER intervention.’ Her main interests are in quality of life and outcomes in long term conditions.

Laura Simmons PhD student in CaHRU and the Lincoln Institute for Health researching the effect of camaraderie among paramedics and their stress responses to critical incidents. She is particularly interested in researching paramedic’s performance, well-being and patient care.

Greg Whitley PhD student  in CaHRU funded by NIHR CLAHRC East Midlands researching pre-hospital pain management in children. He is also a part-time paramedic with East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

Sue Bowler Research administrator for CaHRU supports the activities of the research centre. She is currently administering the PINCER project (funded by the Health Foundation), the Healthier Ageing Patient and Public Involvement (HAPPI) group and postgraduate research in the School of Health and Social Care.

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