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

Supervising
Accepting PhDs

Dentistry

Supervising
Accepting PhDs

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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  • Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cholecystectomy compared with observation/conservative management for preventing recurrent symptoms and complications in adults presenting with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones or cholecystitis: a systematic review and economic evaluation

    Brazzelli, M., Cruickshank, M., Kilonzo, M., Ahmed, I., Stewart, F., McNamee, P., Elders, A., Fraser, C., Avenell, A., Ramsay, C.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 18, no. 55, pp. 1-102
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The use of segmented regression in analysing interrupted time series studies: an example in pre-hospital ambulance care

    Taljaard, M., McKenzie, J. E., Ramsay, C. R., Grimshaw, J. M.
    Implementation Science, vol. 9, 77
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Use of methods for specifying the target difference in randomised controlled trial sample size calculations: Two surveys of trialists' practice

    Cook, J. A., Hislop, J. M., Altman, D. G., Briggs, A. H., Fayers, P. M., Norrie, J. D., Ramsay, C. R., Harvey, I. M., Vale, L. D., DELTA group
    Clinical Trials, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 300-308
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Methods for specifying the target difference in a randomised controlled trial: the Difference ELicitation in TriAls (DELTA) systematic review

    Hislop, J., Adewuyi, T. E., Vale, L. D., Harrild, K., Fraser, C., Gurung, T., Altman, D. G., Briggs, A. H., Fayers, P., Ramsay, C. R., Norrie, J. D., Harvey, I. M., Buckley, B., Cook, J. A., DELTA group
    PLoS Medicine, vol. 11, no. 5, e1001645
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Assessing methods to specify the target difference for a randomised controlled trial: DELTA (Difference ELicitation in TriAls) review

    Cook, J. A., Hislop, J. M., Adewuyi, T. E., Harrild, K. A., Altman, D. G., Ramsay, C. R., Fraser, C., Buckley, B., Fayers, P., Harvey, I., Briggs, A. H., Norrie, J. D., Fergusson, D., Ford, I., Vale, L. D.
    Health Technology Assessment, vol. 18, no. 28, pp. v-xxii, 1-175
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Protocol for the United Kingdom Rotator Cuff Study (UKUFF): a randomised controlled trial of open and arthroscopic rotator cuff repair

    Carr, A. J., Rees, J. L., Ramsay, C. R., Fitzpatrick, R., Gray, A., Moser, J., Dawson, J., Bruhn, H., Cooper, C. D., Beard, D. J., Campbell, M. K.
    Bone & Joint Research, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 155-160
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Evaluating an audit and feedback intervention for reducing antibiotic prescribing behaviour in general dental practice (the RAPiD trial): a partial factorial cluster randomised trial protocol

    Prior, M., Elouafkaoui, P., Elders, A., Young, L., Duncan, E. M., Newlands, R., Clarkson, J. E., Ramsay, C. R., Translation Research in a Dental Setting (TRiaDS) Research Methodology Group
    Implementation Science, vol. 9, 50
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Variation of clinical outcomes used in glaucoma randomised controlled trials: a systematic review

    Ismail, R., Azuara-Blanco, A., Ramsay, C. R.
    British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 464-468
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Is it worthwhile to conduct a randomized controlled trial of glaucoma screening in the United Kingdom?

    Burr, J., Hernández, R., Ramsay, C., Prior, M., Campbell, S., Azuara-Blanco, A., Campbell, M., Francis, J., Vale, L.
    Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 42-51
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
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