Director
Professor
Irwin
Nazareth
Professor Nazareth
joined the department of Primary Care and Population Health at UCL in
1990, as a Sir Jules Thorne and MRC Research Fellow.
He was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1995 and Professor in 2001. In 2005
he was appointed Director of the MRC GPRF. He is also Director of the
PRIMENT Clinical Trials Unit which has a strong research focus on
primary care mental health.
He has particular expertise in using epidemiological and randomsied
trial methodology in gaining an understanding of and in the evaluation
of health care initiatives and interventions. His research interests
include the epidemiology and management of: physical health problems in
people with severe mental illnesses; common mental disorders in primary
care and the physical manifestations of mental health problems in the
community. More recently, he has been actively engaged in research on
the epidemiology and transmission of influenza infections and is
currently working closely with other researchers at UCL, the Health
Protection Agency and the MRC Human Immunology Unit in Oxford, on the
epidemiology of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic.
His international work includes extensive research on primary care and
mental health in Europe, South Africa and India.
He is also a part time general practitioner at the Keats Group Practice
in Hampstead, London.
Senior
Clinical Scientist
Dr. Greta
Rait
Greta Rait
trained in general practice and worked as a research fellow at the
Department
of Psychiatry in Manchester.
She joined
UCL in 1998 as a Clinical Lecturer. She completed her MD and was
awarded a MRC
training fellowship in Health Services Research. This involved working
on a
national RCT of an arthritis self-management programme in primary care.
She has
a Masters in Epidemiology from the London School
of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine. In 2003 she started a new research post between PCPS
and the
MRC General Practice Research Framework. She is leading the recruitment
of
practices and participants to the Second Infectious Intestinal Diseases
Study
(IID2), and is also leading a study looking at recruitment and
attrition in
clinical trials. She is involved with secondary data analysis using
primary
care databases. Her research interest areas include mental health
(including
dementia), complex interventions in primary care and infections.
She
is a
part-time GP at Clerkenwell Medical Practice, London,
and Honorary Senior Academic in Primary Care at Islington Primary Care
Trust.
She is a member of the Clinical Studies Group for the Dementia and
Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN) and Primary Care
lead for North
Thames DeNDRoN.
Research
Valerie
Brueton
Valerie is a research fellow working on a project looking at
recruitment and attrition in clinical trials. She joined the GPRF in
January 2006 and was involved in recruitment to a number of studies run
through the GPRF including the IID2, Fluwatch, ProCEED and Diabetes UK
studies. She graduated from King’s College London with a BSc
(Hons) in Nursing Studies and completed an MSc in Medical Demography at
LSHTM. She has a clinical background in surgical nursing and has worked
more recently on clinical trials and knowledge attitudes and practice
surveys in the UK and Africa.
Statistics
Phillip Prah
Philip completed a BSc Hons in Psychology at the University of Kent
before going on to do an MSc in Statistics with Applications in
Medicine at the University of Southampton. Philip joined the MRC GPRF
in October 2009 and is involved in research concerning mental health
using The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database.
Baptiste Leurent
Baptiste obtained an MSc in statistics from the Statistical Institute
of Paris University in 2006. He then worked at the Program for HIV
Prevention and Treatment in Thailand; a research unit specialising in
the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. Baptiste joined
the GPRF in December 2006, where he works on different studies, in
collaboration with the Marie Cure Palliative Care research Unit.
Administration
Andrew Drage
Andrew joined GPRF in
April 2010 as a Study Research Assistant. He has previously worked for
the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and more recently, for the
South Thames Foundation School based at Guy’s Hospital. Prior to joining
GPRF, Andrew travelled for 6 months around Asia and Australia. Whilst
travelling he also took part in a volunteer project, helping local
struggling farmers in the north of Thailand.
Cherine
Ramsey
Cherine Ramsey
arrived from Zimbabwe in August
2006 and started working for an accident rehabilitation
company as a Case Managers’ Assistant. Cherine
studied and qualified in Zimbabwe as an Executive Administrative
Secretary in 1999 and joined GPRF in July 2007 as Office Manager.
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