Executive management group
This page is under review and will be updated over the next few months.
The new co-directors of the Scottish School for Primary Care (SSPC) are Katie Gallacher at University of Glasgow and Rosalind Adam at University of Aberdeen.
Professor Stewart Mercer
Stewart Mercer is Professor of Primary Care and Multimorbidity at the University of Edinburgh and was the previous Director of the Scottish School of Primary Care (2014-2020). Stewart is an Adjunct Professor of Primary Care Research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester (since 2019) and was a visiting Professor at McMasters University in 2018 and the University of Melbourne in 2012. Responsibilities at Edinburgh University include Co-Covenor of Athena Swan in the Deanery of Molecular Genetics, and Population Health Sciences, Co-Director of Telescot, and Research Lead for the Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health. As a core member of the new £20 million Advanced Care Research Centre, Stewart is Director of PhD Programme (for CMMV) of the Academy of Leadership and Training, and lead for research on New Models of Care.
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Professor Peter Murchie
Peter Murchie trained in Medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He is currently Professor of Primary Care and lead of the Academic Primary Care Research Group, within the Institute of Applied Health Sciences University of Aberdeen.
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Associate Professor Barbara Farquharson
Barbara Farquharson is an Associate Professor in the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional's Research Unit (NMAHP), in the Faculty of Health Sciences & Sport, at Stirling University. She leads research applying behavioural science to issues in cardiovascular care: current funded projects focus on increasing rates of CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and reducing patient delay with serious heart symptoms.
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Dr David Blane
David Blane is an academic GP with expertise in mixed methods research at the University of Glasgow. He is the Academic Lead for the Deep End GP project in Scoltand and within the Institute of Health and Wellbeing he is the Deputy Lead for the Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities (DHHI) theme. He is also the Royal College of General Practitiners (RCGP) representative for Obesity Action Scotland and he is on the RCGP Health Inequalities Standing Group.
Dr Daniel Morales
Daniel Morales is a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow within Population Health and Genomics at the School of Medicine, University of Dundee.
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Mr Colin Angus
Colin Angus represents a patient perspective on several forums. Being a past patient chair of P3, a subgroup of RCGP(Scotland), he was involved in several national Primary Care initiatives. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from RCGP in 2020.
Colin is a public partner in NHS Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership and Chairs his local Forum. He takes an active role in many groups including, Clydesdale GP Forum and Clydesdale Locality Planning Group and is a member of South Lanarkshire Seniors Together where he is involved in national consultations. He is involved as Chair of the PPIE Groups with Edinburgh University in two large research study projects and is a member of the NRS Primary Care Network PPI Group which sense checks would-be research proposals from a patient perspective prior to seeking funding.
He has presented at national events including the RCGP Annual Conferences, SARA Seminar, GP Society events and the Queens Nursing Annual Conference. As a member of Alliance Scotland, he has been involved in many focus groups and workshops and has represented them on several occasions. He is active, along with other patients, in establishing a Patient Participation Group in his local GP Practice.
