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A Collaborative Team

Core Members

Member of staffPosition
Professor John Campbell Professor of General Practice and Primary Care, Co-Director of APEx, Director Exeter SPCR
Professor Richard Neal Professor of Primary Care and Co-Director of APEx
Associate Professor Gary Abel Senior Lecturer & Statistician
Christine Addington Postdoctoral Research Associate (Pflexi Study)
Dr Nur Akter Statistician/ Data Analyst (Di-Facto Project, National Cancer Diagnosis Audit)
Kasim Allel Henriquez Research Fellow (Antimicrobial Resistance)
Jenny Amesbury

Project Administrator (REACH-HF Project) 

(Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure)

Abodunrin Aminu Statistician
Dima Arafah PhD Student
Lauren Asare Graduate Research Assistant (PPI Team)
Dr Sarah Bailey Senior Research Fellow   
Mrs Melissa Barlow

Graduate Research Assistant - (EPIC Project)

(Evaluating ethnic differences in blood markers of cancer in primary care)

Dr Jess Bollen Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Charlotte Bramwell Researcher & PhD Student
Dr Jo Butterworth NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow
Dr Emily Brown Academic Clinical Fellow in Primary Care
Dr Raff Calitri Trial Manager/Research Fellow

Dr Mary Carter

Research Fellow (SPOCC)

Miss Wawa Chen

Graduate Research Assistant (DISCO Team)

Dr Chris Clark

Clinical Senior Lecturer in General Practice and Primary Care

Dr Emma Cockcroft

Research Fellow and NIHR SPCR Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr Mike Cooke

Research Fellow (COLOFIT Project)

Amy Coombe

APEx/SCPR Administrator and PenARC Administrator

Louise Cooper

Graduate Research Assistant (CARPE Umbrella Review)

Dr Rosina Cross

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (UMPH Project)

(Understanding Measuring and Managing Postural Hypotension)

Associate Professor Hasnain (Hayes) Dalal 

Clinical Associate Professor & Senior Clinical Research Fellow (REACH-HF Project)

(Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure)

Dr Antoinette Davey

Research Associate
Dr Gianni Dongo NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow 
Ms Elizabeth Down

Graduate Research Assistant (EPIC Project)

(Evaluating ethnic differences in blood markers of cancer in primary care)

Professor Barney Dunn Professor of Psychology
Mr Jon Evans NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedics
Professor Philip Evans Professor of Primary Care Research
Emily Fletcher Research Fellow and PhD Student
Charlotte Forbes Academic Clinical Fellow
Natalie Grinvalds

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Associate

Dr Abi Hall

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Rebekah Hall

Graduate Trainee Assistant in Health Economics and PhD Student

Professor David Halpin Consultant Physician and Honorary Professor
Professor Willie Hamilton  Professor of Primary Care Diagnostics
Professor Alex Harding Sub Dean, Course Director M.Clin.Ed

Dr Sara Hayes

NIHR SPCR Manager and SPOCC (SPotting Cancer among Comorbidities) Research Manager

Dr Janice Hoang

Research Fellow in the Discovery Group

Kate Jardine-Brown

APEx Administrator

Caroline Jenkinson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Di-Facto project)

(Digital Facilitation in Primary Care)

Professor Umesh Kadam

Professor of Primary Care and Public Health Research

Adnan Khan

Academic Clinical Fellow

Dr Nada Khan

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow

Taha Khan

Academic Clinical Fellow
   
Ellie Kingsland  PA to John Campbell and Richard Neal, and Senior Administrator to APEx
Lucy Kirkland Graduate Research Assistant (DISCO team)
Judit Konya

 

Academic Clnical Lecturer
Stella Kozmer SPCR PhD Student

Professor Sallie Lamb

Mireille Gillings Professor of Health Innovation

Dr Deepthi Lavu

Academic Clinical Fellow

Dr Tani Martins

 Research Fellow (DISCO Group)

Dr Sinead McDonagh

NIHR SPCR Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr Sam Merriel

Senior Clinical Research Fellow
Dr Sarah Moore NIHR SPCR GP Career Progression Fellow

Dr Luke Mounce

Research Fellow (DISCO Group)

Abdullah Mubarky

MPhil/PhD PGR Student

Professor Rupert Payne

Senior Academic GP and Clinical Pharmacologist

Dr Emma Pitchforth

Senior Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow in Primary Care

Dr Ian Porter

Associate Research Fellow

Dr Anna Price

Research Fellow (Three Schools Mental Health)

Dr Sarah Price

Research Fellow

Charlotte Reburn

SPCR PhD Student

Dr Elizabeth Shephard

Research Fellow  

Mr David Shotter 

Graduate Research Assistant (SPOCC Project)

(SPotting Cancer among Comorbidities)

Dr Jane Smith

Senior Lecturer in Primary Care
Beccy Summers Research Associate (PPI)
Dr Bethan Treadgold

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Di-Facto Project)

(Digital Facilitation in Primary Care)

Dr Maria Valasaki Postdoctoral Qualitative Researcher (SPOCC Project)
Professor Jose Valderas Professor of Health Services and Policy Research 

Dr Sam van Beurden

ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Laura Warbrick

Research Fellow (Three Schools Mental Health)

Dr Fiona Warren

Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics  

Dr Bianca Wiering

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Rachel Winder

Research Fellow & Di-Facto Project Manager

(Digital Facilitation in Primary Care)

Affiliate Members

  

Member of staffPosition
Professor Louise Allan Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Professor Rob Anderson Associate Professor of Health Services and Implementation Research, Director of Research Impact (Institute of Health Research), Director of ESMI
Professor Clive Ballard Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean
Professor Vashti Berry NIHR South West Peninsula Applied Research Collaboration Senior Research Fellow
Professor Linda Clare Professor of Clinical Psychology and Ageing and Dementia
Dr Anne Corbett Senior Lecturer in Dementia Research
Professor Helen Dawes  Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation
Professor Sarah Dean Professor of Psychology Applied to Rehabilitation and Health
Dr Ndubuisi Egwim HSPRG (Health Services & Policy Research Group) Honorary Associate
Professor Andrew Eynon-Lewis Honorary Clinical Professor in General Practice and Primary Care
Professor Tamsin Ford Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Dr Jaheeda Gangannagaripalli

HSPRG (Health Services & Policy Research Group) Honorary Associate

Dr Lisa Gibbons  Honorary Clinical Associate Research Fellow and Clinical Research Specialty Lead for the NIHR
Professor Vicky Goodwin Associate Professor of Ageing and Rehabilitation
Professor William Henley Professor of Medical Statistics
Professor Clare Hulme Professor of Health Economics
Professor Chris Hyde Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology
Professor David Keene Associate Professor 
Professor Dawn Lee Associate Professor of Health Economics and Health Policy
Dr Kristin Liabo Senior Research Fellow
Dr David Llywelyn Senior Research Fellow

Dr Mae Mansoubi

Research Fellow

Dr Jimmy Martin

HSPRG (Health Services & Policy Research Group) Honorary Associate Research Fellow

Dr Jane Masoli

Senior Clinical Research Fellow & Honorary Consultant Geriatrician 

Dr Matthew Masoli

HSPRG (Health Services & Policy Research Group) Honorary Senior Clinical Researcher

Dr Andrew Mcgovern 

Academic Clinical Fellow

Professor Antonietta Medina-Lara

Associate Professor in Health Economics (E&R)

Dr Tamsin Newlove-Delgado

Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Public Health

Professor Heather O'Mahen

Professor in Perinatal Clinical Psychology

Dr Martin Pitt

Associate Professor of Healthcare Modelling and Simulation

Dr Janice Ranson

Senior Research Fellow

Mr Albert Roso Llorach

HSPRG (Health Services & Policy Research Group) Honorary Associate

Dr Beverley Shields

Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics

Professor Anne Spencer

Associate Professor

Professor Rod Taylor

Professor of Health Services Research

Professor Krasimira Tsaneva

Professor of Mathematics for Healthcare

Dr Concepción Violán Fors

HSPRG (Health Services & Policy Research Group) Honorary Associate

Dr Esther Williamson

Senior Research Fellow

Dr Kim Wright

Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology

Partnerships

APEx has key partnerships with individuals and local, regional, national and international organisations, some of which are highlighted below.

 

RegionPartnerDetail
Local
Dr Lisa Gibbons An Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Exeter Medical School, is the Clinical Research Specialty Lead for Primary Care within the CRN: SWP, based in Exeter.
Associate Professor Philip Evans

The National Specialty Lead for Primary Care for the CRN covering the whole of England, and is also one of the two Cluster C Leads based within King's College London with specific responsibility for Dermatology, Mental Health, Primary Care and Public Health. 

Regional

Devon NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)

 

NHS England and NHS Improvement South West

 

 

NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN): South West Peninsula

 

Royal College of General Practitioners (Tamar Faculty)

 

National

 

NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN): National Lead