Current Position:

I am Joint Director Priment Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), and UCL Co-Lead for the NIHR Research Design Service. Priment CTU is a cross faculty collaboration and runs trials in a range of mental health, primary care and community settings (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/priment). I am Professor in Primary Care at PCPH, which is a member of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research. In addition I am a research theme lead and Academy Lead for the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections at UCL. I maintain my clinical role as a general practitioner in London and previously was a clinical lead within Islington CCG. 

Background

I trained in Manchester, where I completed my clinical general practice training there. I gained a MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. My MD was a project on screening for mental health disorders in older people from ethnic minority backgrounds. I spent some time working with the MRC General Practice Research Framework. I became Deputy Director of PRIMENT Clinical Trials Unit in 2011.