Clinical Innovation and Research Centre Chairman
(CIRC)
Prof Nigel Mathers MD PhD MRCGP
(Sheffield Faculty)
Contact
Royal College of General Practitioners, 14 Princes Gate, London,
SW7 1PU
Switchboard: 0207 581 3232
Fax:
0207 589 3145
How Elected / Appointed
Elected by Members of Council
Term of Office
Three years (up to March 2010)
Principal Responsibilities
The RCGP Clinical Innovation and Research
Centre (CIRC) has been developed to improve the clinical standards
of patient care in general practice and primary care. CIRC delivers
clinical excellence through clinical audit and effectiveness
programmes, service development and quality improvement
initiatives, and individual research projects with support for GP
education, training and continuing development.
The Chairman of Clinical and Research acts as
the academic lead member in the RCGP for all clinical and research
issues within the College. In addition, the holder is
responsible for the strategic direction of the Centre and for
supporting the activities of the CIRC team at Princes Gate.
CIRC’s activities include Research Ready, the
Research Paper of the Year Award and the Scientific Foundation
Board.
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Biographical Details
Professor and Head of the Academic Unit of
Primary Medical Care, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at
the University of Sheffield, Nigel Mathers qualified with a MB ChB
from Sheffield in 1979 and subsequently completed his MD (1986) and
Phd (1993). He entered General Practice in 1987 as a
single-handed Principal in a deprived, inner-city area of Sheffield
where he continues to work part-time, now with three partners.
He was elected as Regional Chair of the Trent
Focus (1998), Chair of Trent RDSU (2004), Chair of Research for the
Royal College of General Practitioners (2003-2006), Chair of
Clinical and Research for the RCGP (2006 to date) and Chair of the
Sheffield Health and Social Research Consortium Board (2003-2006).
He is also currently an appointed member of the NHS Evidence
Advisory Board.
His current research interests include the
prevention of diabetes and shared decision making, motivational
skills and postnatal depression. His research grants to date
total over £2 million. He has 120 publications in
peer-reviewed journals to his name, and acted as Editor in Chief
for the European Textbook of Family Medicine (2006) which contains
contributions from over 70 authors from 13 different European
countries. He has also made substantive contributions to the new
edition of the standard textbook ‘Research into Practice’
(2004).
He has wide experience of community-based
research acting as Principal Investigator in a number of randomised
controlled trials and has particular expertise in research design
and the evaluation of complex interventions in primary care.
In addition, he has been Principal Investigator in a number of
qualitative studies based in General Practice and has wide
experience of collaborative multi-disciplinary community-based
research.
He has world-wide links with other
universities both nationally and internationally, and has been
invited to give numerous talks and lectures.
He has supervised 17 successful higher degree
students and is currently supervisor to five more. In
addition, he has acted as external examiner to the Universities of
Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh as well as the Universities
of Malaya (Malaysia) and Fu-Jen (Taiwan).