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Professor Craig Ramsay

Professor Craig Ramsay
Professor Craig Ramsay
Professor Craig Ramsay

Director of Health Services Research Unit

Accepting PhDs

About
Email Address
c.r.ramsay@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 438142
Office Address

Health Services Research Unit (HSRU)
3rd Floor, Health Sciences Building,
Foresterhill
Aberdeen AB25 2ZD

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

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

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

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

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

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Nutrition and Health

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Dentistry

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Research 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 licence.

Supervision

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

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

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

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  • Collagenase clostridium histolyticum for the treatment of Dupuytren’s contracture: systematic review and economic evaluation

    Brazzelli, M., Cruickshank, M., Tassie, E., McNamee, P., Robertson, C., Elders, A., Fraser, C., Hernandez, R., Lawrie, D., Ramsay, C.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 19, no. 90, pp. 1-202
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Participation in physical play and leisure in children with motor impairments: Mixed-methods study to generate evidence for developing an intervention

    Kolehmainen, N., Ramsay, C., McKee, L., Missiuna, C., Owen, C., Francis, J.
    Physical Therapy, vol. 95, no. 10, pp. 1374-1386
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Outcome Measures in Glaucoma: a systematic review of Cochrane Reviews and Protocols

    Ismail, R. A., Azuara-Blanco, A., Ramsay, C. R.
    Journal of Glaucoma, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 533-538
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Ablative therapy for people with localised prostate cancer: a systematic review and economic evaluation

    Ramsay, C. R., Adewuyi, T. E., Gray, J., Hislop, J., Shirley, M. D., Jayakody, S., MacLennan, G., Fraser, C., MacLennan, S., Brazzelli, M., N'Dow, J., Pickard, R., Robertson, C., Rothnie, K., Rushton, S. P., Vale, L., Lam, T. B.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 19, no. 49, pp. 1-524
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Is self-monitoring an effective option for people receiving long-term vitamin K antagonist therapy? A systematic review and economic evaluation

    Sharma, P., Scotland, G., Cruickshank, M., Tassie, E., Fraser, C., Burton, C. D., Croal, B., Ramsay, C. R., Brazzelli, M. G.
    BMJ Open, vol. 5, no. 6, e007758
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Assessment of diagnostic tests and the impact on decision making: self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation therapy: Oral presentation

    Sharma, P., Scotland, G. S., Cruickshank, M., Tassie, E., Fraser, C. M., Burton, C. D., Croal, B. L., Ramsay, C. R., Brazzelli, M. G.
    Contributions to Conferences: Other Contributions

  • Making randomised trials more efficient: report of the first meeting to discuss the Trial Forge platform

    Treweek, S., Altman, D. G., Bower, P., Campbell, M., Chalmers, I., Cotton, S., Craig, P., Crosby, D., Davidson, P., Devane, D., Duley, L., Dunn, J., Elbourne, D., Farrell, B., Gamble, C., Gillies, K., Hood, K., Lang, T., Littleford, R., Loudon, K., McDonald, A., McPherson, G., Nelson, A., Norrie, J., Ramsay, C., Sandercock, P., Shanahan, D. R., Summerskill, W., Sydes, M., Williamson, P., Clarke, M.
    Trials, vol. 16, 261
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of point-of-care tests (CoaguChek system, INRatio2 PT/INR monitor and ProTime Microcoagulation system) for the self-monitoring of the coagulation status of people receiving long-term vitamin K antagonist therapy, compared with standard UK practice: systematic review and economic evaluation

    Sharma, P., Scotland, G. S., Cruickshank, M., Tassie, E., Fraser, C., Burton, C. D., Croal, B., Ramsay, C. R., Brazzelli, M.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 19, no. 48, pp. 1-172
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A systematic review of the use of an expertise-based randomised controlled trial design

    Cook, J. A., Elders, A., Boachie, C., Bassinga, T., Fraser, C. M., Altman, D., Boutron, I., Ramsay, C. R., MacLennan, G. S.
    Trials, vol. 16, 241
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of foam sclerotherapy, endovenous laser ablation and surgery for varicose veins: results from the Comparison of LAser, Surgery and foam Sclerotherapy (CLASS) randomised controlled trial

    Brittenden, J., Cotton, S. C., Elders, A., Tassie, E., Scotland, G., Ramsay, C. R., Norrie, J., Burr, J., Francis, J., Wileman, S., Campbell, B., Bachoo, P., Chetter, I., Gough, M., Earnshaw, J., Lees, T., Scott, J., Baker, S. A., MacLennan, G., Prior, M., Bolsover, D., Campbell, M. K.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 19, no. 27, pp. 1-342
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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