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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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  • 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

  • An introduction to methodological issues when including non-randomised studies in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions

    Reeves, B. C., Higgins, J. P. T., Ramsay, C., Shea, B., Tugwell, P., Wells, G.
    Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-11
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Issues relating to study design and risk of bias when including non-randomized studies in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions

    Higgins, J. P. T., Ramsay, C. R., Reeves, B. C., Deeks, J. J., Shea, B., Valentine, J. C., Tugwell, P., Wells, G.
    Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 12-25
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Clinical outcome measures used in glaucoma trials: UK and Eire Glaucoma Society Meeting

    Ismail, R. A., Azuara-Blanco, A., Ramsay, C. R.
    UK and Eire Glaucoma Society Meeting
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Developing the specifications of an Open Angle Glaucoma screening intervention in the United Kingdom: a Delphi approach

    Campbell, S. E., Azuara-Blanco, A., Campbell, M. K., Francis, J. J., Greene, A. C., Ramsay, C. R., Burr, J. M.
    BMC Health Services Research, vol. 12, 447
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Development of core outcome measures for glaucoma interventions

    Ismail, R. A., Azuara-Blanco, A., Ramsay, C. R.
    UK and Eire Glaucoma Society Meeting
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters

  • A questionnaire elicitation of surgeons' belief about learning within a surgical trial

    Cook, J. A., Ramsay, C. R., Carr, A. J., Rees, J. L., UKUFF trial group
    PloS ONE, vol. 7, no. 11, e49178
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Systematic review and economic modelling of the relative clinical benefit and cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic surgery and robotic surgery for removal of the prostate in men with localised prostate cancer

    Ramsay, C., Pickard, R., Robertson, C., Close, A., Vale, L., Armstrong, N., Barocas, D. A., Eden, C. G., Fraser, C., Gurung, T., Jenkinson, D., Jia, X., Lam, T. B., Mowatt, G., Neal, D. E., Robinson, M. C., Royle, J., Rushton, S. P., Sharma, P., Shirley, M. D. F., Soomro, N.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 16, no. 41, pp. 1-313
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Development of core outcome measures for glaucoma interventions

    Ismail, R. A., Azuara-Blanco, A., Ramsay, C. R.
    6th International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters

  • Analysing randomised controlled trials with missing data: Choice of approach affects conclusions

    Fielding, S., Fayers, P., Ramsay, C. R.
    Contemporary Clinical Trials, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 461-469
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Expert opinion on laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer parallels evidence from a cumulative meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

    Martel, G., Crawford, A., Barkun, J. S., Boushey, R. P., Ramsay, C. R., Fergusson, D. A.
    PloS ONE, vol. 7, no. 4, e35292
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The quality of research synthesis in surgery: the case of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer

    Martel, G., Duhaime, S., Barkun, J. S., Boushey, R. P., Ramsay, C. R., Fergusson, D. A.
    Systematic reviews , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 14
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Evidence base for an intervention to maximise uptake of glaucoma testing: a theory-based cross-sectional survey

    Prior, M. E., Burr, J. M., Ramsay, C. R., Jenkinson, D., Campbell, S., Francis, J. J., Glaucoma screening Platform Study group
    BMJ Open, vol. 2, no. 2, e000710
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Participation in physical play and leisure: developing a theory- and evidence-based intervention for children with motor impairments

    Kolehmainen, N., Francis, J., Ramsay, C. R., Owen, C., McKee, L., Ketelaar, M., Rosenbaum, P.
    BMC Pediatrics, vol. 11, 100
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Choosing appropriate patient-reported outcomes instrument for glaucoma research: a systematic review of vision instruments

    Che Hamzah, J., Burr, J. M., Ramsay, C. R., Azuara-Blanco, A., Prior, M.
    Quality of Life Research, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 1141-1158
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Pre-validation methods for developing a patient reported outcome instrument

    Prior, M. E., Che Hamzah, J., Francis, J. J., Ramsay, C. R., Castillo, M. M., Campbell, S. E., Azuara-Blanco, A., Burr, J. M.
    BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 112
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Randomised controlled feasibility trial of an evidence-informed behavioural intervention for obese adults with additional risk factors

    Sniehotta, F. F., Dombrowski, S. U., Avenell, A., Johnston, M., McDonald, S., Murchie, P., Ramsay, C. R., Robertson, K., Araujo-Soares, V.
    PloS ONE, vol. 6, no. 8, e23040
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Guidance on minimally important clinical difference and trial size is needed

    Cook, J. A., Ramsay, C. R., Vale, L. D.
    BMJ (Online), vol. 343, no. 7817, d4375
    Contributions to Journals: Letters

  • Urinary incontinence in men after formal one-to-one pelvic-floor muscle training following radical prostatectomy or transurethral resection of the prostate (MAPS): two parallel randomised controlled trials

    Glazener, C., Boachie, C., Buckley, B., Cochran, C., Dorey, G., Grant, A., Hagen, S., Kilonzo, M., McDonald, A., McPherson, G., Moore, K., Norrie, J., Ramsay, C., Vale, L., N'Dow, J.
    The Lancet, vol. 378, no. 9788, pp. 328-337
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Conservative treatment for urinary incontinence in Men After Prostate Surgery (MAPS): two parallel randomised controlled trials

    Glazener, C. M. A., Boachie, C., Buckley, B., Cochran, C., Dorey, G., Grant, A., Hagen, S., Kilonzo, M., McDonald, A., McPherson, G., Moore, K., N'Dow, J., Norrie, J. D. T., Ramsay, C., Vale, L.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 15, no. 24, pp. 1-290
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Conservative treatment for urinary incontinence in Men After Prostate Surgery (MAPS): two parallel randomised controlled trials

    Glazener, C., Boachie, C., Buckley, B., Cochran, C., Dorey, G., Grant, A., Hagen, S., Kilonzo, M., McDonald, A., McPherson, G., Moore, K., N'Dow, J., Ramsay, C., Vale, L.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 15, no. 24, pp. 1-296
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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