Dr Caroline Mitchell
Caroline is Professor of General Practice of General Practice at Keele Univeristy. Caroline was also a GP partner for over 30 years. Caroline joined the Academic Unit of Primary Medical Care at the University of Sheffield in 1993, initially as an undergraduate teacher and later as a Senior Clinical Lecturer. Caroline leads the ‘Under-served populations’ research theme in the department and my research and clinical practice focuses on inclusion health.
Her research interests are in the overlap of physical health problems with severe mental illness and / or substance use and in co-design approaches to support inclusive primary care research with underserved populations.
Caroline has both quantitative and qualitative research methods expertise including the RCT evaluation of complex interventions in primary care.
Competing Interests: none
Antony Chuter
Antony Chuter is passionate about improving healthcare for all in the UK. He has lived with chronic pain for over 35 years and he is especially interested in patient safety and also E-Health. He chairs the Patient Liaison Committee at the British Pain Society, is chair of Pain UK; a charity which works to improve the support and care of people who live with pain and he is a past chair of the Patient Partnership Group at the RCGP.
Antony is an experienced lay co applicant - having worked on more than 6 national projects. He believes that healthcare research is the way to make substantial change in patient safety, care and experience of healthcare in the UK and beyond. He has an honorary fellowship with the Royal College of General Practitioners
Antony is a co-chair of the QResearch Advisory Board.
Competing Interests: none
Mr Jon Ford
Jonathan (Jon) Ford is a retired economist. He was educated at Colfe’s School and the University of Kent. After working in econometrics in the electricity supply industry, he joined the British Medical Association (BMA) in 1976 as an Economic Research Officer and retired as head of its Health Policy and Economic Research Unit (HPERU) in 2013. A specialist in Labour Economics originally, his interests now include Health Economics, Resource Allocation and Health and Social Policy.
Competing Interests: none
Ms Kausar Iqbal
Kausa Iqbal brings over fifty years of lived experience as a plus-two sibling carer, having cared for her two brothers since the age of eight. For the past thirty years, they have lived with Kausar and her family. She is a trustee and co-founder of Better Action for Families, supporting adults with disabilities and their families. She is also a Good Life Leader with Leeds City Council and a member of the Carers Reference Group. Kausar works with the University of Leeds as part of the Patients and Carer Community, sharing lived experience with future professionals, and has contributed to chronic pain research at the University of Dundee.
Competing Interests: none
Dr Paula Dhiman
Dr Paula Dhiman is the Chair of the QResearch Scientific Committee and is a Senior Research Fellow in Medical Statistics at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford. She works to improve the design, quality, and integrity of future medical research by advancing statistical methodology research. Her research themes are statistical methodology, applied statistics and meta-research, linked by a focus on prediction modelling for medical research. Paula has extensive experience in working with large routinely collected databases, including primary and secondary care databases.
Competing Interests: None
Professor Carol Coupland
Carol Coupland is Emeritus Professor of Medical Statistics in Primary Care at the University of Nottingham and a senior researcher at Queen Mary University of London. She has conducted many research projects using QResearch data which have been published in high impact journals such as the BMJ. Her key research interests are in the development and validation of algorithms for predicting risk of disease and evaluating safety of commonly prescribed medications.
Competing Interests: None
Dr Patricia Wilkie
Patricia Wilkie is a social scientist particularly interested in the patient perspective. She is Chair and honorary president of the National Association for Patient Participation. She has spent much of her working life as a researcher in academic departments of medicine. Research topics included the ethical, social and psychological implications of genetic disease, of HIV and Aids and aspects of changes in prescribing. Patricia helped establish the National Childbirth Trust in Scotland and has worked with many voluntary organisations including the Huntington Chorea Association and the Patients Association.
Patricia established patient groups in several Medical Royal Colleges and was the first lay co-opted member on the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and chairman of their lay committee. She has chaired a research ethics committee and has been a lay associate at the GMC. She was one of the first of two lay members of the Committee on Safety for Medicines and chaired the working group on patient reporting of adverse drug reactions. She writes about the importance of considering the patient perspective in health care.
Competing Interests: none
Dr Rachel Bower
Rachel Bowerr is GP partner in Tower Hamlets since 2004, in a teaching and training practice. She undertook her medical training in Cambridge and London. She has been a GP trainer since 2018, also is involved in undergraduate teaching; interest in social determinants of health , public spaces and active travel, sustainable practice, “Deep End” movement, mental health, languages. She holds a previous computer science MSc. Practice IT lead and Caldicott Guardian. Her practice uses EMIS software, now owned by Optum. She is a trustee of the EMIS national user group since 2024; The EMIS National User Group (EMIS NUG) is a non-profitmaking organisation set up to improve the use of health information. It is a registered charity.
Competing Interests: none
Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox
Julia Hippisley-Cox is the Chief Investigator for QResearch and Professor in Clinical Epidemiology and Predictive Medicine at Queen Mary University of London. She trained as a GP and is an Honorary Consultant Barts Health Care Trust. Her key research interests are in the development and validation of algorithms for predicting risk of disease and evaluating safety of commonly prescribed medications.
Competing Interests: JHC was founder and shareholder of ClinRisk Ltd. In 2023, 100% of the share capital of ClinRisk Ltd was donated to Endeavour Health Care Charitable Trust and the company renamed to Endeavour Predict Community Interest Company. JHC is a consultant for Endeavour Predict CIC and her husband is a non-executive director.