After qualifying from Southampton University Medical School, Paramjit worked in a number of hospital and community posts before entering academic General Practice.

Teaching Programmes

BMedSci International Health

MPH

MSc in Clinical Primary and Community Care

Supervisor for BMedSci and MSc/MPhil students

Personal Mentor for medical undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Paramjit also teaches on a number of national and international CPD courses. He has also contributed to a number of innovative training modules including ‘Promoting Equality and Valuing Diversity’ module; an online e-learning resource for the new GP Curriculum (http://e-lfh.org.uk/projects/egp/index.html) and the BHF ‘Healthy Hearts Kit’ training manual which won ‘The 2010 BMA Patient Information Resource of the Year’ prize.

Paramjit is currently principal supervisor for Doctoral students looking at:

• Ethnic Differences in Vascular Endothelial Function in Chronic Heart Failure
• Peripheral Arterial Disease amongst minority ethnic communities in the UK
• Antecedents, Characterisation and Validity of Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers amongst Ethnic minorities in the UK
• Decision making in primary care consultations
• Beliefs and adherence to medicines in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the influence of ethnicity 

Potential doctoral research students are welcome to contact Paramjit on the contact details above, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email: dr@contacts.bham.ac.uk  or call +44 (0)121 414 5005.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.  

Research interests include addressing health inequalities particularly amongst migrant populations and evidence-based health care and its application to health care delivery. His current focus is on cardiovascular health.

Paramjit is engaged in the full range of research methodologies from both the quantitative and qualitative paradigms.

He is involved in a number of national and international studies.

2011 -    RCGP Clinical Champion for Social Inclusion
2011 -    NIHR Fellowship Scheme Review Panel for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PDF, CDF and SRF)
2011 -    Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT Research GP Champion
2009 -    Membership of the NICE Primary Care Quality and Outcomes Framework Indicator Advisory Committee
2009 -    Department of Health Tackling Health Inequalities in Diabetes Working Group
2004 -    Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust Local R&D Advisory Group
1998 -    Health Inequalities Standing Group, Royal College of General Practitioners

Patel JV, Gill PS, Chackathayil J, Ojuku H, Stemman P, Sheldon L, Meelu S, Lane DA, Tracey I, Lip GYH, Hughes E. Short-term Effects of Screening for Cardiovascular Risk in the Deaf Community. Cardiology Research and Practice (in press)

Patel SR, Bellary S, Qin L, Gill PS, Taheri S, Heitmar R, Gibson J, Gherghel D . Abnormal Retinal Vascular Function and Lipid Levels in a Sample of Healthy UK South-Asians. British Journal of Ophthalmology (in press)

Bennett PC; Gill PS; Silverman S; Blann AD; Chackathayil J; Lip GYH. Haemostatic cardiovascular risk factors, common carotid intima medial thickness and peripheral arterial disease in South Asians and African-Caribbeans: A sub-study to the Ethnic-Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening (E-ECHOES) Study. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (in press)

Metcalfe A, Plumridge G, Coad J, Shanks A, Gill P. Parents’ and children’s communication about genetic risk: a qualitative study, learning from families’ experiences. European Journal of Human Genetics 2011; 1–7.

Bennett PC; Gill PS; Silverman S; Blann AD; Lip GYH. Ethnic differences in common carotid intima-media thickness, and the relationship to cardiovascular risk factors and peripheral arterial disease: the Ethnic-Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening Study. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 2010; doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcq187.

Gill PS, Davis R, Davies M, Freemantle N, Lip GYH. Rationale and study design of a cross sectional study documenting the prevalence of Heart Failure amongst the minority ethnic communities in the UK: the E-ECHOES Study (Ethnic - Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening Study). BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2009, 9:47.

Freemantle N, Wood J, Griffin C, Gill P, Calvert MJ, Shankar A, Chambers J, MacArthur C. What factors predict differences in infant and perinatal mortality in Primary Care Trusts in England? A prognostic model. British Medical Journal 2009; 339:b2892.

Gill PS, Kai J, Bhopal RS, Wild S. Health Care Needs Assessment: Black and Minority Ethnic Groups. In: Raftery J, Stevens A, Mant J (ed). Health Care Needs Assessment. The epidemiologically based needs assessment reviews. Third Series. Abingdon: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2007.

Also available on-line: http://www.hcna.bham.ac.uk/pdfs/04_HCNA3_D4.pdf