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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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  • Determining information for inclusion in a decision-support intervention for clinical trial participation: A modified Delphi approach

    Gillies, K., Skea, Z. C., Maclennan, S. J., Ramsay, C. R., Campbell, M. K.
    Clinical Trials, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 967-976
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Determining items for inclusion in a decision support intervention for clinical trial participation: a modified Delphi approach

    Gillies, K., Skea, Z., MacLennan, S., Ramsay, C., Campbell, M.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • Theoretical and empirical dimensions of the Aberdeen Glaucoma Questionnaire: a cross sectional survey and principal component analysis

    Prior, M., Ramsay, C. R., Burr, J. M., Campbell, S. E., Jenkinson, D. J., Asoaka, R., Francis, J. J.
    BMC Ophthalmology, vol. 13, 72
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • IQuaD dental trial; improving the quality of dentistry: a multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing oral hygiene advice and periodontal instrumentation for the prevention and management of periodontal disease in dentate adults attending dental primary care

    Clarkson, J. E., Ramsay, C. R., Averely, P., Bonetti, D., Boyers, D., Campbell, L., Chadwick, G. R., Duncan, A., Elders, A., Gouick, J., Hall, A. F., Heasman, L., Heasman, P. A., Hodge, P. J., Jones, C., Laird, M., Lamont, T. J., Lovelock, L. A., Madden, I., McCombes, W., McCracken, G. I., McDonald, A. M., McPherson, G., Macpherson, L. E., Mitchell, F. E., Norrie, J. D. T., Pitts, N. B., van der Pol, M., Ricketts, D. N., Ross, M. K., Steele, J. G., Swan, M., Tickle, M., Watt, P. D., Worthington, H. V., Young, L.
    BMC Oral Health, vol. 13, 58
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Relative effectiveness of robot-assisted and standard laparoscopic prostatectomy as alternatives to open radical prostatectomy for treatment of localised prostate cancer: a systematic review and mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis

    Robertson, C., Close, A., Fraser, C., Gurung, T., Jia, X., Sharma, P., Vale, L., Ramsay, C., Pickard, R.
    BJU International, vol. 112, no. 6, pp. 798-812
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Comparative Cost-effectiveness of Robot-assisted and Standard Laparoscopic Prostatectomy as Alternatives to Open Radical Prostatectomy for Treatment of Men with Localised Prostate Cancer: A Health Technology Assessment from the Perspective of the UK National Health Service

    Close, A., Robertson, C., Rushton, S., Shirley, M., Vale, L., Ramsay, C., Pickard, R.
    European Urology, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 361-369
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Clinical and economic evaluation of laparoscopic surgery compared with medical management for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: 5-year follow-up of multicentre randomised trial (the REFLUX trial)

    Grant, A. M., Boachie, C., Cotton, S. C., Faria, R., Bojke, L., Epstein, D. M., Ramsay, C. R., Corbacho, B., Sculpher, M., Krukowski, Z. H., Heading, R. C., Campbell, M. K.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 17, no. 22, pp. 1-166
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Overview of clinical Outcome Measures Used in Glaucoma Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs)

    Ismail, R. A., Azuara-Blanco, A., Ramsay, C. R.
    Royal College of Ophthalmologists Anual Congress
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters

  • Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients

    Davey, P., Brown, E., Charani, E., Fenelon, L., Gould, I. M., Holmes, A., Ramsay, C. R., Wiffen, P. J., Wilcox, M.
    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 4, CD003543
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Minimal access surgery compared with medical management for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: five year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial (REFLUX)

    Grant, A. M., Cotton, S. C., Boachie, C., Ramsay, C. R., Krukowski, Z. H., Heading, R. C., Campbell, M. K., REFLUX Trial Group
    BMJ, vol. 346, f1908
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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