Professor of behavioural medicine
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Paul Aveyard is a public health physician and GP working in the field of behavioural medicine. Most of his hundred or so publications concern tobacco control, particularly smoking cessation and harm reduction. He leads the behavioural medicine team which has interests in tobacco control, obesity management, and promotion of physical activity.
He is a regular ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8529
Email p.n.aveyard@bham.ac.uk
Project Officer
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Sheila Bailey is currently working as a Project Officer on the Theme 7 BBC CLAHRC (Birmingham and Black Country, Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) project which is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The project is looking at the Optimisation of the Management of Stroke & TIA. She is primarily responsible for the administration of the ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7956
Email s.m.bailey.20@bham.ac.uk
Research Nurse
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Miriam Banting is a research nurse in the Centre for Behavioural Medicine Team. Since May 2010 she has been overseeing all the clinics that are run to recruit and follow up participants in the rapid reduction smoking cessation study.
She is involved with the preparation and setting up of clinics in the preloading trial that is due to start early 2012.
Miriam’s previous ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3105/+44 (0)121 414 3759
Email m.v.banting@bham.ac.uk
Manager, Interactive Studies Unit
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Karen holds a degree in Communication Processes. She joined the Department of Primary Care and General Practice at the University of Birmingham in September 2001. Karen is the first point of contact with the ISU if you have a training need to discuss or would like to book some role players. As well as co-ordinating the role play team Karen is also involved with recruitment, training and ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8534
Email k.barry@bham.ac.uk
Deputy Director, Primary Care Clinical Research & Trials Unit (PC-CRTU)
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Sarah Bathers is Deputy Director of the Primary Care Clinical Research & Trials Unit. Her role at the unit involves managing a portfolio of Primary Care Clinical Trials and a multidisciplinary team, with day-to-day responsibility for over 59 staff and indirect or partial management of the clinical trials activity of over 77 staff within PCCS, including statisticians, programmers, ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3323
Email s.bathers@bham.ac.uk
Problem Based Learning Facilitator
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
After training in Anaesthesia in Nottingham and Birmingham, worked as a Consultant Anaesthetist at the City Hospital (nee Dudley Road Hospital ) for 23 years till retirement from the NHS in 2006
Telephone 075400 84600
Email r.botha@bham.ac.uk
Qualitative Research Fellow
Nursing and Physiotherapy
Amunpreet is a Qualitative Research Fellow working on the Collaborations For Leadership In Applied Health Research And Care Research Theme 1: From structure to function; health service redesign project.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 9083
Email a.r.k.boyal@bham.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
George Bramley is a Research Fellow and systematic reviewer based in CLAHRC (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for Birmingham and Black Country) working on a number of evidence reviews across the nine CLAHRC–BC themes.
George is also experienced evaluator and contributed to the development of evaluation practice having contributed ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7942
Email g.bramley@bham.ac.uk
Senior Clinical Tutor
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Anna Caley is a course organiser for the final year medical students on their Community Based Medicine placements and a General Practitioner.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7941
Email a.b.caley@bham.ac.uk
Reader in Epidemiology and Director of Graduate Studies, School of Health and Population Sciences
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Melanie Calvert, PhD, has extensive experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials, trials methodology research, economic evaluation and clinical epidemiology. Her primary research interests focus on outcomes research, including the use of composite and patient reported outcomes, notably quality of life. Dr Calvert has over 50 publications, including work in major international journals ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8595
Email m.calvert@bham.ac.uk