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Prof Irwin Nazareth
Dept Primary Care & Population Health, UCL Royal Free Site
Rowland Hill Street
London
NW3
Appointment
- Professor of Primary Care and Population Science
- Primary Care & Population Health
- Institute of Epidemiology & Health
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Biography
He started working at the UCL in 1990 as a Sir Jules Thorne Research Fellow and then as a MRC funded fellow. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1995 and Professor in 2002 at UCL. He was seconded to be the Director of the MRC General Practice Research Framework from 2005 to 2012 and was the Head of Department of Primary Care and Population Health at UCL from 2006-2015. He is a member of Indian Alliance Wellcome Trust Department of Business and Technology Board. He is a NIHR Senior Investigator and part time general practitioner at the Keats Group Practice in Hampstead which has a strong focus on research.
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Irwin Nazareth’s research interests include the management of mental health problems in primary care. This includes the management of in primary care of: physical health in people with psychological disorders; the prevention and management of
depression and unexplained medical symptoms such as dizziness and sexual
dysfunction; the evaluation of existing and new interventions and the implementation
of research finding in clinical practice. His methodological expertise is in the design
and conduct of randomised trials of complex interventions
and the analysis of large clinical databases such CPRD and THIN for epidemiological,
aetiological and health service research.
He has over the years secured funding from the MRC, the Wellcome Trust, Cancer
Research UK, The European Commission and the National Institute of Health
Research (NIHR) for these programmes of research. He is currently the Director of the PRIMENT
Clinical Trials Unit that has a large portfolio of randomised trials on primary
care and mental health. His international research interests include research
on primary care and mental health in Europe and India.
Teaching Summary
Doctoral supervision of PhDs in Primary Care and Mental Health and Post doctoral supervision of research programmes.
Teaching clinical skills in general practice to M.B.B.S students and running seminar for early career clinical fellows in research as applied to practice.
Continuing medical education of GPs and consultants on applied research and implementation of research to clinical practice.
Academic Background
| 2004 | FEL | Fellowship – General Practice | Royal College of General Practioners |
| 1997 | PhD | Doctor of Philosophy – Clinical Medicine | London |
| 1989 | MRCGP | Member of the Royal College of General Practioners – General Practice | Royal College of General Practioners |
| 1988 | DRCOG | Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists – Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists |
| 1985 | LRCP | Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians – Clinical Medicine | To be updated |
| 1984 | MBBS | Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery – Clinical Medicine |
