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Professor Craig Ramsay

Professor Craig Ramsay

Director of Health Services Research Unit

I am currently accepting PhDs in Dentistry and Nutrition and Health.

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Professor Craig Ramsay
Professor Craig Ramsay

Contact Details

Telephone
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fax +44 (0)1224 438165
Email
Address
The University of Aberdeen Health Services Research Unit (HSRU)
3rd Floor, Health Sciences Building,
Foresterhill
Aberdeen AB25 2ZD

Biography

I am Director of the Health Services Research Unit and Professor of Health Care Evaluation. I also direct the Aberdeen Health Technology Assessment Group, which is the only academic centre in Scotland responsible for providing technology assessment reports for the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

I have wide ranging research interests in health services research with expertise in service improvement research, surgical trial evaluation, and quasi-experimental study designs and as statistical editor for the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care group I have led the worldwide development of systematic review methodology for interrupted time series designs. I serve on several national and international committees and was an inaugural member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland.

 

Qualifications

PhD, Public Health University of Aberdeen 2000
PGDip, Information Systems Edinburgh Napier University 1994
BSc, Mathematics and statistics University of Edinburgh 1993
Research

Research Areas

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Specialisms

  • Healthcare Science
  • Medical Statistics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Supervision

My current supervision areas are: Nutrition and Health and Dentistry.

I provide PhD supervisory support for full or part-time PhD students. Some recent examples include: 

Research Funding and Grants

In terms of research grant awards, I have personally been involved as chief investigator or principal applicant on a portfolio of national and international studies generating in excess of £30 million, with £20 million in the last 5 years. The projects include a mix of large scale international trials and methodological studies funded from a variety of sources – all the studies are healthcare policy relevant and of national or international significance.

Publications

Publications 

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  • A Review of Aerosol Generation Mitigation in International Dental Guidance

    Robertson, C., Clarkson, J. E., Aceves Martins, M., Ramsay, C., Richards, D., Colloc, T., CoDER Working Group

    International Dental Journal

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

    Digital Object Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.identj.2021.04.002

  • Identification and categorisation of relevant outcomes for symptomatic uncomplicated gallstone disease: in depth analysis to inform the development of a core outcome set

    Cruickshank, M., Newlands, R., Blazeby, J. M., Ahmed, I., Bekheit, M., Croal, B. L., Innes, K., Ramsay, C., Gillies, K.

    BMJ Open

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

    Digital Object Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045568

  • Interpretation of change scores for the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25: the minimally important difference

    Burr, J. M., Cooper, D., Ramsay, C. R., Che Hamzah, J., Azuara-Blanco, A.

    Br J Ophthalmol

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

    Digital Object Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2021-318901

  • Thematic analysis of Twitter communication of the UK public on dental health and care during a COVID lockdown: "My kingdom for a dentist"

    Rzewuska, M., Lamont, T. J., Banister, K., Gillies, K., Goulao, B., Locock, L., Nevin, G., Clarkson, J. E., Ramsay, C.

    Community Dental Health

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infection: exploring drivers of cognitive effort and factors associated with inappropriate prescribing

    McCleary, N., Francis, J. J., Campbell, M., Ramsay, C., Burton, C. D.

    Family Practice, cmab030

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Selective caries removal in permanent teeth (script) for the treatment of deep caries lesions: A randomised controlled clinical trial in primary care

    Clarkson, J. E., Ramsay, C., Ricketts, D. N. J., Banerjee, A., Deery, C., Lamont, T. J., Boyers, D., Marshman, Z., Goulao, B., Bannister, K., Conway, D. I., Dawett, B., Baker, S. R., Sherriff, A., Young, L., van der Pol, M., MacLennan, G., Floate, R., Braid, H. J., Fee, P. A., Forrest, M., Gouick, J., Mitchell, F. E., Gupta, E., Dakri, R., Kettle, J., McGuff, T., Dunn, K.

    BMC Oral Health

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Audit and feedback with or without training in-practice targeting antibiotic prescribing (TiPTAP): a study protocol of a cluster randomised trial in dental primary care

    Goulao, B., Scott, C. L., Black, I., Clarkson, J., McArthur, L., Ramsay, C., Young, L., Duncan, E.

    Implementation Science, vol. 16, 32

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

    Digital Object Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-021-01098-z
    Open Access
    http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/16177/1/Goulao_etal_Audit_and_feedback_VOR.pdf

  • Protocol for a randomised controlled trial comparing laparoscopic cholecystectomy with observation/conservative management for preventing recurrent symptoms and complications in adults with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones (C-Gall trial)

    Ahmed, I., Innes, K., Brazzelli, M., Gillies, K., Newlands, R., Avenell, A., Hernández, R., Blazeby, J., Croal, B., Hudson, J., MacLennan, G., McCormack, K., McDonald, A., Murchie, P., Ramsay, C.

    BMJ Open, vol. 11, no. 3, e039781

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

    Digital Object Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039781
    Open Access
    http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/16202/1/Ahmed_etal_Protocol_for_randomised_VOR.pdf

  • The Value of Preventative Dental Care: A Discrete-Choice Experiment

    Boyers, D., van der Pol, M., Watson, V., Lamont, T., Goulao, B., Ramsay, C., Duncan, A., Macpherson, L., Clarkson, J.

    Journal of Dental Research, 22034521989943

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

    Digital Object Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0022034521989943
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