Professor Jeremy Dale - Professor of Primary Care

Jeremy's interests include the interface between primary care and emergency care, and out-of-hours care. Methodologies used include qualitative studies, quantitative studies and clinical trials. Jeremy works as a part-time General Practitioner at Engleton House Surgery in Coventry.

e-mail: jeremy.dale@warwick.ac.uk 

024 765 22891

Professor Paramjit Gill - Professor of General Practice

Paramjit joined the Primary Care Team in March 2017. His research interests include addressing health inequalities, especially amongst migrant populations, and evidence-based health care and its application to health care delivery.

e-mail:

p.gill.1@warwick.ac.uk

024 765 73496

Professor David Fitzmaurice - Professor of Cardiorespiratory Primary Care

David has a longstanding research interest in cardiovascular disease, in particular oral anticoagulation management. David is teaching lead for The Cardiovascular Programme at the University of Warwick. He has been Primary Care Advisor to several NICE guidelines, including the Guidelines Development Group for atrial fibrillation, author of UK guidelines for patients self-management of oral anticoagulation, co-author of recent systematic review of cost-effectiveness of self-management of oral anticoagulation for HTA and primary care advisor to the NHS Heart improvement programme. David is also a GP.

e-mail:

d dot fitzmaurice at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 761 51129

Dr Helen Atherton - Associate Professor

Helen’s research interests are in access to general practice and the delivery of the consultation in primary care, her expertise is in the use of email and video for consultation with patients in primary care settings. Helen also has interests in the reporting of patient experience, specifically the way that the NHS collects and utilises online feedback from patients. Helen is currently involved in leading or collaborating on several ongoing projects in these areas.

e-mail:

h dot atherton at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 761 51405

Dr Rishi Caleyachetty - Assistant Professor

Rishi's work focuses on global health with an emphasis on non-communicable diseases and women and children's health.

e-mail: R dot Caleyachetty at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 765 73814

Dr Veronica Nanton - Senior Research Fellow

Veronica’s research has focussed on psychosocial aspects of cancer and patient and carer experience in palliative care. She has a particular interest in the needs of minority populations. Her studies encompass a range of designs including clinical trials and mixed methods, longitudinal narrative interviews and ethnography.

e-mail:

v dot nanton at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 765 74025

Dr Emma Scott - Senior Research Fellow

Emma's primary focus is on behaviour change interventions to promote health, particularly primary prevention of disease, but also in promoting recovery after ill-health. Her methodological area of interest is developing complex interventions. Emma is currently taking Maternity Leave.

e-mail:

e dot j dot scott at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 765 74654

Dr John MacArtney - Senior Research Fellow

John is a sociologist of health and illness with specific interests in palliative and end of life care, bereavement, and diagnosis of cancer and who specialises in qualitative research. John’s current position is a partnership with Marie Curie that aims to promote research activities within Marie Curie's services through local, national and international academic and clinical collaborations.

e-mail:

john dot macartney at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 761 50619

Dr Rachel Spencer - Clinical Lecturer General Practice

Rachel is an academic GP and her research interest is in all aspects of patient safety in primary care and has involved in prescribing safety research for the last ten years. She helped develop prescribing indicators used by the RCGP and the CPRD. Her doctoral work focused on safety of communication at the interface of primary and secondary care.

Rachel is currently on sabbatical in New Zealand working as a GP and will return in June 2019 to start this new post-doctoral role in the UAPC.

e-mail: R dot Spencer dot 2 at warwick dot ac dot uk

Dr Sarah Mitchell - Clinical Research Fellow

Sarah is a GP at Northfield Health Centre in Birmingham. Her research is inspired by her clinical practice, particularly in palliative care, children and young people, multi-morbidity, medical ethics, health care service design and patient experience. She joined Warwick Medical School in November 2014 as an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow.

e-mail:

sarah dot j dot mitchell at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 765 28054

Dr Joanna Fleming - Research Fellow

Jo is a mixed-methods researcher who joined the Warwick Primary Care group in July 2016 to work on a variety of projects. Jo’s research interests lie in health promotion and behaviour change, particularly physical activity, nutrition and obesity prevention.

e-mail:

j dot l dot m dot fleming at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 761 50627

Dr Carol Bryce - Research Fellow

Carol is a qualitative researcher who joined the Warwick Primary Care group in September 2016. She is involved in evaluating a post CCT GP fellowship programme in acute care and in the development of a digital resource to support carers. Carol has worked on research projects in public health, health education and behaviour change and has a particular interest in healthy eating and the interpretation of nutrition guidelines.

e-mail:

c dot bryce dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 765 73851

Dr Abi Eccles - Research Fellow

Abi joined Warwick Primary Care in October 2016 working on various projects. Her research interests focus on patient centred care and communication during consultations. Abi’s doctoral research examined the information and decision support needs for people with Multiple Sclerosis; exploring the applicability of personalised care planning and accounts of decision making and interactions with healthcare professionals.

e-mail:

a dot eccles at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 765 23164

Dr Amy Clarke - Research Fellow

Amy has a background in health and behavioural psychology, and her research interests focus on developing complex interventions to improve the lives of patients living with long term conditions. Amy’s doctoral research led to the development of a structured group based education programme designed to increase levels of physical activity in patients with chronic kidney disease.

e-mail:

amy dot l dot clarke at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 765 74025

Patricia Apenteng - Research Associate

Patricia is a mixed methods researcher with experience in qualitative research, quantitative research and clinical trials. Her research interests include cardiovascular disease, the care of elderly care home residents, and ethnicity and health. Patricia currently manages the UK component of the global GARFIELD-AF registry and is also conducting some secondary data analysis.

e-mail: P dot Apenteng at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 765 72815

Julia Roscoe - Research Associate

Julia currently works alongside Dr Veronica Nanton on the iCARE-P project.

e-mail:

j dot roscoe at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 761 51885

Sarah Hillman - Academic Clinical Fellow

Sarah joined the Unit of primary care as an Academic Clinical Fellow in February 2017. Her main research interests are women's health and genetics in primary care. Her initial focus is on how polycystic ovarian syndrome is managed in primary care.

e-mail:

s dot hillman at warwick dot ac dot uk

Mishkat Shehata - Academic Clinical Fellow

Mishkat joined the UAPC in September 2018 and holds a Masters in Public Health from Sheffield and Copenhagen with specialisation in health service delivery and disease prevention. Her interests lie in non-communicable disease prevention, health systems analysis and evaluation. More specifically, in risk factor modification complemented by innovative service delivery for chronic conditions.

e-mail:

Mishkat dot Shehata at warwick dot ac dot uk

Julia Gauly - Doctoral Researcher

Julia Gauly started her PhD at WMS in October 2017. Her research project is on pharmacy-based sexual health services. Julia is interested in the users of pharmacy-based sexual health services, and the barriers and enablers to the delivery of these services.

e-mail:

J dot Gauly at warwick dot ac dot uk

Katharine Weetman - Doctoral Researcher

Katharine is undertaking a PhD on written discharge communication between primary and secondary carers and patients. She has a particular interest in researching and teaching medical communication.

e-mail:

k dot weetman at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 765 51077