Professor Tom Marshall MB ChB, MSc, PhD, MRGP, FFPH

Professor Tom Marshall

Institute of Applied Health Research
Professor of Public Health and Primary Care

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7832
Fax
+44 (0)121 414 7878
Email
t.p.marshall@bham.ac.uk
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@TomPMarshall
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Address
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Institute of Applied Health Research
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham, B15 2TT

Tom Marshall is a Professor of Public Health and Primary Care. His main medical speciality is in Public Health Medicine but he also has trained in General Practice and has studied Health Economics.

Tom has over 70 peer reviewed publications to date, over 35 as first author and a significant number as sole author. His research publications cover a number of related areas.

- Cardiovascular disease prevention and in particular organising primary care services to improve the eifficiency of cardiovascular disease prevention in primary care.

- Patient preferences in relation to taking medication to prevent cardiovascular diseases.

- The analysis of electronic primary care records to understand primary health care, prescribing and epidemiology.

- The use of statistical process control for quality improvement in health care.

- Factors influencing General Practitioner decision making in relation to cardiovascular prevention

- The use of electronic primary care records to assist earlier identification of chronic diseases including: bowel cancer, patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease; left ventricular systolic dysfunction.

Tom has contributed to local, national and international media in relation to his research, particularly in relation to prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Qualifications

  • Professor of Public Health and Primary Care
  • Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK), 2005
  • PhD in Public Health: An economic evaluation of cardiovascular disease prevention in primary care, University of Birmingham, 2005.
  • Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine (UK), 1997.
  • MSc. Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 1995
  • Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1994.
  • MSc. Health Economics (distinction), University of York, 1992.
  • MB ChB University of Edinburgh, 1987. 

Teaching

Postgraduate supervision

A number of areas including:
- cardiovascular epidemiology and the management of cardiovascular disease in UK primary care
- economic modelling of cardiovascular prevention in primary care
- early diagnosis using data in electronic primary care records
- investigation of clinical decision-making in primary care
- overtreatment in primary care
- data and computer science use of electronic primary care records

Research

My research is mainly in primary care. I have particular interests in the design of efficient strategies for prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary care. I also am interested in early diagnosis of cancer using information held in electronic patient records. Other interests include clinical decision making in primary care, cardiovascular epidemiology, managment of cardiovascular diseases and overtreatment. Much of my research makes use of the use of electronic primary care records and I hold a licence to undertake research using the THIN database. I am also interested in making links with data and computer scientists to exploit electronic pratient records for research.

 

Other activities

  • Former member of the editorial board of the Health Technology Assessment journal.
  • Currently a reviewer for many grant awarding bodies and academic journals.
  • Former member of the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit grant awarding committee.
  • Currently a member of the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research grant awarding committee

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Quinn, L, Hosier , I, Adderley, N & Marshall, T 2022, 'An interrupted time series analysis of the effects of withdrawal of financial incentives on diagnosis of atrial fibrillation as resolved. Does withdrawal of an incentive reverse its unintended effects?', BJGP Open.

Adams, R, Jordan, R, Adab, P, Barrett, T, Bevan, S, Cooper, L, DuRand, I, Hardy, P, Heneghan, N, Jolly, K, Jowett, S, Marshall, T, O'Hara, M, Rai, K, Rickards, H, Riley, R, Sadhra, S, Tearne, S, Walters, G & Sapey, E 2022, 'Enhancing the health of NHS staff: eTHOS. Protocol for a randomised controlled pilot trial of an employee health screening clinic for NHS staff to reduce absenteeism and presenteeism, compared with usual care', Pilot and Feasibility Studies, vol. 8, 155. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01095-z

Odland, ML, Ismail, S, Sepanlou, SG, Poustchi, H, Sadjadi, A, Pourshams, A, Marshall, T, Witham, MD, Malekzadeh, R & Davies, J 2022, 'Multimorbidity and associations with clinical outcomes in a middle aged population in Iran: a longitudinal cohort study', BMJ Global Health, vol. 7, no. 5, e007278. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007278

Merat, S, Jafari, E, Radmard, A-R, Khoshnia, M, Sharafkhah, M, Baygi, AN, Marshall, T, Shiravi Khuzani, A, Cheng, KK, Poustchi, H & Malekzadeh, R 2022, 'Polypill for prevention of cardiovascular diseases with focus on non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: the PolyIran-Liver Trial', European Heart Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab919

Okoth, K, Crowe, F, Marshall, T, Thomas, GN, Nirantharakumar, K & Adderley, N 2022, 'Sex-specific temporal trends in the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease in young adults: a population-based study using UK primary care data', European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 1387-1395. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwac024

Subramanian, A, Nirantharakumar, K, Hughes, S, Myles, PR, Williams, T, Gokhale, K, Taverner, T, Chandan, J, Brown, K, Simms-Williams, N, Shah, A, Singh, M, Kidy, F, Okoth, K, Hotham, R, Bashir, N, Cockburn, N, Lee, S, Turner, G, Gkoutos, G, Aiyegbusi, OL, McMullan, C, Denniston, A, Sapey, E, Lord, J, Wraith, D, Leggett, E, Iles, C, Marshall, T, Price, M, Marwaha, S, Davies, EH, Jackson, L, Matthews, K, Camaradou, J, Calvert, M & Haroon, S 2022, 'Symptoms and risk factors for long COVID in non-hospitalised adults', Nature Medicine, vol. 2022, pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01909-w

Lambert, AM, Parretti, HM, Pearce, E, Price, MJ, Riley, M, Ryan, R, Tyldesley-marshall, N, Avşar, TS, Matthewman, G, Lee, A, Ahmed, K, Odland, ML, Correll, CU, Solmi, M & Marshall, T 2022, 'Temporal trends in associations between severe mental illness and risk of cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis', PLoS Medicine, vol. 19, no. 4, e1003960. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003960

Haroon, S, Nirantharakumar, K, Hughes, S, Subramanian, A, Aiyegbusi, OL, Davies, EH, Myles, PR, Williams, T, Turner, G, Chandan, J, McMullan, C, Lord, J, Wraith, D, McGee, K, Denniston, A, Taverner, T, Jackson, L, Sapey, E, Gkoutos, G, Gokhale, K, Leggett, E, Iles, C, Frost, C, McNamara, G, Bamford, A, Marshall, T, Zemedikun, D, Price, G, Marwaha, S, Simms-Williams, N, Brown, K, Walker, A, Jones, K, Matthews, K, Camaradou, J, Saint-Cricq , M, Kumar, S, Alder , Y, Stanton, DE, Agyen , L, Baber , M, Blaize , H & Calvert, M 2022, 'Therapies for Long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals: from symptoms, patient-reported outcomes and immunology to targeted therapies (The TLC Study)', BMJ open, vol. 12, no. 4, e060413. https://doi.org/10.1136/ bmjopen-2021-060413

Finnikin, S, Willis, BH, Ryan, R, Evans, T & Marshall, T 2021, 'Factors predicting statin prescribing for primary prevention: A historical cohort study', British Journal of General Practice , vol. 71, no. 704, pp. E219-E225. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp20X714065

Haroon, S, Subramanian, A, Cooper, J, Anand, A, Gokhale, K, Byrne, N, Dhalla , S, Acosta-Mena , D, Taverner, T, Okoth, K, Wang, J, Chandan, J, Sainsbury, C, Zemedikun, D, Thomas, GN, Parekh, D, Marshall, T, Sapey, E, Adderley, N & Nirantharakumar, K 2021, 'Renin-angiotensin system inhibitors and susceptibility to COVID-19 in patients with hypertension: a propensity score-matched cohort study in primary care', BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 21, no. 1, 262. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-05951-w

Webb, G, Ryan, R, Marshall, T & Hirschfield, G 2021, 'The epidemiology of UK autoimmune liver disease varies with geographic latitude', Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. 2021, no. 00, pp. 1-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2021.01.029

Phillips, K, Subramanian, A, Thomas, GN, Khan, N, Chandan, J, Brady, P, Marshall, T, Nirantharakumar, K, Fabritz, L & Adderley, N 2021, 'Trends in the pharmacological management of atrial fibrillation in UK general practice 2008-2018', Heart. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2021-319338

Crowe, F, Zemedikun, D, Okoth, K, Adderley, N, Rudge, G, Sheldon, M, Nirantharakumar, K & Marshall, T 2020, 'Comorbidity phenotypes and risk of mortality in patients with ischaemic heart disease in the UK', Heart, vol. 106, no. 11, 2019-316091, pp. 810-816. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2019-316091

Qadi, O, Lufumpa, N, Adderley, N, Bem, D, Marshall, T & Kokab, F 2020, 'Patients’ and health professionals’ attitudes and perceptions towards the initiation of preventive drugs for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a systematic review of qualitative studies', BJGP Open, vol. 4, no. 5, bjgpopen20X101087. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101087

Review article

Turner, G, McMullan, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Bem, D, Marshall, T, Calvert, M, Mant, J & Belli, T 2021, 'Stroke risk following traumatic brain injury: systematic review and meta-analysis', International Journal of Stroke, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930211004277

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Expertise

Prevention of heart disease