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Senior Research Leaders
Professor Jon Bisson Professor Vanessa Burholt Professor Colin Dayan
Professor Adrian Edwards Professor Kerry Hood
Professor Dyfrig Hughes
Professor William Gray
Professor Ian Jones Professor Ronan Lyons
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Professor Paul Morgan Professor Shantini Paranjothy
Professor Andrew Sewell
Professor Helen Snooks Professor Rhiannon Tudor Edwards
Professor John Williams
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Professor Jon Bisson
Department and Institution Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University
Current Post Professor in Psychiatry
Primary Research Field Jon’s main research is in the field of traumatic stress - www.traumaticstressresearch.co.uk
Contact details [email protected] 02920 688 486
Biography
Jon was Director of Research and Development with Cardiff and Vale UHB from 2010 to
2013, Clinical Director of the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research Academic
Health Science Collaboration from 2011 to 2013, he then led the development of Health and
Care Research Wales and was its first Director until August 2018. He was co-chair of the UK’s
first PTSD NICE Guideline Development Group and chairs the International Society for
Traumatic Stress Studies’ Treatment Guidelines Committee. He developed the first liaison
psychiatry, traumatic stress and veterans’ mental health services in Wales and is currently
leading on the development of an all Wales traumatic stress quality improvement initiative.
Jon is a practising psychiatrist and professor in psychiatry at Cardiff University. He has
conducted various studies including two widely cited randomised controlled trials of early
psychological interventions following traumatic events and five Cochrane systematic reviews
in the traumatic stress field. He developed and continues to lead Cardiff University’s
Traumatic Stress Research Group and has been awarded 31 research grants worth over £10
million. His current research includes randomised controlled trials of a guided self-help
intervention for mild to moderate PTSD, and 3MDR for treatment-resistant PTSD in veterans.
He has over 160 publications, regularly teaches and supervises undergraduates,
postgraduates, health and other professionals. He has delivered over 150 presentations to
various meetings and conferences in 17 different countries, including 42 keynote/plenary
presentations.
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Professor Vanessa Burholt
Department and Institution
College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University
Current Post
Professor of Gerontology
Director of Centre for Innovative Ageing
Director of Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research
Primary Research Field
Gerontology
Secondary Research Field
Social Sciences, Social Psychology
Contact details [email protected] 01792 602186
Biography
After graduating from the Open University in 1994, Vanessa worked as a researcher at Bangor
University while she undertook her PhD. After completing her PhD in 1998, Vanessa became
Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Policy Research and Development at Bangor
University and in 2004 took over as Director. Vanessa was awarded a personal Chair at Bangor
in 2007, and shortly after moved to Swansea University, as Director of the Centre for
Innovative Ageing. In 2016, Vanessa was also appointed Director of the pan Wales, Centre for
Ageing and Dementia Research.
Vanessa is the research member of the Ministerial Advisory Forum on Ageing. Personal awards
include Fellow of the Academy of Social Science and Senior Research Leader for Health and
Care Research Wales. In 2015 and 2017, she won the CHHS outstanding contribution to
research award. She was formerly a member of the ESRC Grants Assessment Panel C, ESRC
Peer Review College and ESRC DTC Peer Review College. She is member of the Board for
Health and Care Research Wales.
Vanessa has more than 20 years research experience in social gerontology and has worked on
and led international and national research projects worth approximately £51.9mil, and has
supervised 24 post-graduate students. Her research interests include loneliness, support
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networks, intergenerational relationships, social exclusion, rurality, migration of older people
and attachment to place and she has published more than 50 articles and book chapters on
these topics.
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Professor Colin M Dayan
Department and Institution
Diabetes/Autoimmunity, Infection and Immunity Division, Cardiff
University School of Medicine
Current Post
Professor of Clinical Diabetes and Metabolism, Cardiff University
Professor of Endocrinology and Merabolism, University of Bristol
Primary Research Field
Type 1 diabetes, thyroid disease, autoimmunity
Secondary Research Field
Graves eye disease
Contact details [email protected] 029 2074 2182
Biography
Colin Dayan trained in medicine at University College, Oxford, and Guy’s and Charing Cross
Hospitals in London, UK before obtaining a PhD in the immunology of Graves’ Disease in
Laboratory of Marc Feldmann. He then spent a year as an endocrine fellow at the
Massachussetts General Hospital in Boston, USA before completing his specialist training in
diabetes and endocrinology as a Lecturer in Bristol. He became a consultant senior lecturer in
medicine (diabetes/endocrinology) at the University of Bristol in 1995 and Head of Clinical
Research at the Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology
in Bristol in 2002. In 2010, he was appointed to the Chair of Clinical Diabetes and Metabolism
and Head of Section at Cardiff University School of Medicine. He served as Director of the
Institute of Molecular and Experimental Medicine in 2011 – 2015. In 2017 he was appointed
to the post of Professor of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University of Bristol, UK as a
joint post with Cardiff. His research interests include the immunotherapy of type 1 diabetes
where he leads the UK immunotherapy consortium, thyroid hormone replacement therapy
and autoimmune thyroid disease. (https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/78690-dayan-
colin)
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Professor Adrian Edwards
Department and Institution
School of Medicine, Cardiff University
Current Post
Co-Director, Division of Population Medicine
Primary Research Field
Prof Edwards' main research interests are in quality and safety of health care, with current
studies on safety in primary care, the epidemiology of harm in secondary care, self-
management support in long term conditions, and implementation of shared decision making.
Contact details [email protected] 02920 687196
Biography
Professor Adrian Edwards' main research interests are in quality and safety of health care,
with current studies on safety in primary care, the epidemiology of harm in secondary care,
self-management support in long term conditions, and implementation of shared decision
making.
Adrian is Professor of General Practice and Co-Director of the Division of Population
Medicine at Cardiff University. He is the Director of PRIME Centre Wales , an all-Wales Centre
for Primary and Emergency (including unscheduled research), in partnership with Bangor
University, Swansea University and University of South Wales. He is also a part-time general
practitioner in Cwmbran, South Wales, and has a visiting professorship at Aarhus University,
Denmark. He co-leads the Population Medicine Route of the intercalated BSc.
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Professor William Gray
Department and Institution
Primary Research Field
Contact details [email protected] 02920 688491
Professor Gray graduated in Medicine from University College Cork, Ireland, where he also obtained his MD in motor nerve transplantation. His post doctoral research was spent in Southampton and Bonn where he developed an interest in adult neural stem cells. He established a research group on adult neurogenesis in Southampton, and was appointed to the University Chair of Neurosurgery in 2006. He moved to the Chair of Functional Neurosurgery in Cardiff in 2011, where he established the BRAIN Biomedical Research Unit, and which he also directs.
His clinical interests are in epilepsy surgery and cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy. His research group’s work extends from lab-based basic science studying stem cells and adult hippocampal neurogenesis, to cognitive behavioural and imaging studies in patients and neural stem cell transplantation in Huntington’s Disease and epilepsy.
He is particularly interested in the effects of the innate immune system on endogenous and transplanted neural stem cells, and how this may be manipulated to restore cognitive function and effect brain repair in patients with neurological disease.
Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, School of Medicine , Cardiff University
Current Post
Professor of Neurosurgery,Director, Brain Repair And Intracranial Neurotherapeutics (BRAIN) Unit Training Programme Director in Neurosurgery (HEIW)
Biography
Secondary Research Field
Neural Stem Cells
Neuroinflammation
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Professor Kerry Hood
Department and Institution
Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University
Current Post
Director
Primary Research Field
Clinical Trials
Secondary Research Field
Infections
Contact details [email protected] 02920 687163
Biography
Professor Hood has a degree and PhD in Statistics and has worked in medical statistics since
1996. She spent the first part of her career focused on research in primary care and then in
2006 established the South East Wales Trials Unit and started to develop a broader research
portfolio. Her specific methodological research interests are in trial design, outcome
measurement and research inclusion with a particular focus on complex trials, whilst the topic
areas she mainly focuses on are primary care, infections and learning disabilities.
Professor Hood collaborates widely across the UK and Europe on research studies from a
broad range of funders including NIHR, NISCHR, EU and industry. She has over 270 peer
reviewed research publications and currently holds £34M of research grants as a co-applicant.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Higher Education Academy and a
member of the Society for Academic Primary Care and the Society for Clinical Trials.
Professor Hood is keen to develop career pathways for researchers and is a mentor on the
Society for Academic Primary Care PHoCuS (Primary Healthcare Scientists) mentoring scheme.
She also mentors undergraduate medical students.
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Professor Dyfrig Hughes
Department and Institution
Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor
University.
Current Post
Professor of Pharmaeconomics.
Co-director of the Centre for Health Economics & Medicines.
Primary Research Field
Dyfrig’s principal interests are in pharmaceutical economics and policy, adherence research,
and methodological and applied research in trial-based economic evaluations.
Contact details [email protected] 01248 382950
Biography
Professor Dyfrig Hughes’ principal interests are in pharmaceutical economics and policy,
adherence research, and methodological and applied research in trial-based economic
evaluations.
Dyfrig graduated in pharmacy at Cardiff University before undertaking a PhD in cardiovascular
pharmacology at the University of Liverpool. He subsequently trained in health economics,
and is currently Professor of Pharmacoeconomics and co-director of the Centre for Health
Economics and Medicines Evaluation at Bangor University. He is also academic lead for
Pharmacy at the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, and is honorary professor at the
Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool.
Dyfrig’s main research activities, which have led to over 120 publications, concern
pharmaceutical economics and policy, health technology assessment and medication
adherence. He is an editorial board member of the journals PharmacoEconomics and Clinical
Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
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Professor Ian Jones
Department and Institution
School of Medicine, Cardiff University
Current Post
Director/Clinical Professor, National Centre for Mental Health
Primary Research Field
Ian Jones is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical
Neurosciences at Cardiff University. He is also an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Cardiff
and Vale NHS Trust. His research interests relate to bipolar spectrum disorders and in
particular the relationship of mood disorders to childbirth. Professor Jones' clinical interest is
in the identification and management of women at high risk of severe postpartum episodes.
Contact details [email protected] 02920 688327
Biography
Ian Jones is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical
Neurosciences at Cardiff University, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Cardiff and Vale
NHS Trust. He is also Director of the National Centre for Mental Health. He is the clinical lead
for the Cardiff University Psychiatry Service (CUPS) which offers second opinions for mood
and psychotic disorders and leads a clinical service offering pre-conception counselling to
women with severe mental illness. He is director of BEP-C, a group psychoeducation
programme for bipolar disorder. Ian is a trustee, past chair and scientific adviser to Action on
Postpartum Psychosis.
His research interests relate to bipolar spectrum disorders and in particular the relationship of
mood disorders to childbirth. Ian’s clinical interest is in the identification and management of
women at high risk of severe postpartum episodes.
Ian graduated from St Georges Medical School in London and then trained in General
Medicine and Psychiatry in South Wales. He joined Professor Craddock’s team in the mood
disorders group in Cardiff University as a clinical research fellow and was then awarded a
Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship at the University of Birmingham spending a year at
Virginia Commonwealth University in the US.
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Professor Ronan Lyons
Department and Institution
Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University
Current Post
Clinical Professor of Public Health
Primary Research Field
Population Health
Secondary Research Field
Health Data Science
Contact details [email protected] 01792 513484
Biography
Ronan Lyons, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW), is Professor of Public Health at
Swansea University, Honorary Consultant in Public Health with Public Health Wales NHS Trust
and Adjunct Professor at Monash University, Australia.
Professor Lyons is Director of the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing
Research, Research Director and lead for Population Health Research for Health Data Research
UK and Co-Director of the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) system.
His research focuses on the use of routine data in cohorts, trials, and the evaluation of natural
experiments and complex interventions. He led the development of the total population
Wales Electronic Cohort for Children as a platform for evaluating interventions and policies.
He is principal investigator in the MRC funded ‘Application of machine learning to discover
new multimorbidity phenotypes associated with poorer outcomes’, a new collaboration with
the Alan Turing Institute, Associate Director for the MRC’s Dementias Research Platform UK
and lead investigator in the ESRC funded Administrative Data Research Partnership.
Professor Lyons is particularly interested in the neglected field of injury prevention and
control and is involved in many of the world's largest observational, interventional and policy
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relevant injury research studies. Since 2012, he has chaired the US National Centres for
Health Statistics’ International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics and Methods.
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Professor Paul Morgan
Department and Institution
Division of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff
University
Current Post
Professor of Immunology
Director, Systems Immunity URI
Primary Research Field
Complement Biology
Secondary Research Field
Neuroinflammation
Contact details [email protected] 02920 688320
Biography
Professor Morgan graduated in Medicine from Cardiff and completed a PhD prior to a two-year
stay in the US where he developed his interest in the Complement System. He returned to the
UK where, generously supported by the Wellcome Trust, he built a research group working on
the complement system, its regulation and roles in disease. He is a former Dean of Medicine
at Cardiff University and is currently Director of the Systems Immunity Research Institute and
co-Director of the Hodge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Immunology. His current research
focusses on roles of complement and other inflammatory pathways in disease with a
particular focus on neurological disease.
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Professor Shantini Paranjothy
Department and Institution
Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff
University
Current Post
Co-Director Division of Population Medicine
Primary Research Field
Population health and epidemiological analysis of record-linked routinely available health
and administrative data
Secondary Research Field
Perinatal and child health epidemiology
Contact details [email protected] 029 2068 7245
Biography
Professor Shantini Paranjothy is a public health physician and epidemiologist. Shantini was
appointed as the Mansel Talbot Professor of Preventive Medicine at Cardiff University in
2016.
Shantini’s research is focused on perinatal and infant health inequalities. In 2008, Shantini set
up the Welsh Study of Mothers and Babies (WOMBS) to study the significance of ultrasound
markers detected during pregnancy for the health of the baby (funded by MRC/WORD Health
Research Partnership Award). The study recruited 30,000 mothers from all maternity units in
Wales, with consent to follow up their children in future studies.
Shantini has led a number of large-scale epidemiological analyses using record-linked data
from routinely collected health and social data. One example was an analysis of birth
outcomes for women who have had treatment for cervical abnormalities. This study used
linked anonymised electronic records from a cohort of 174,325 women aged 20-39 years in
Wales and reassuringly found that surgical treatment for pre-cancerous lesions did not
increase the likelihood of premature birth or low birth-weight babies. Shantini has researched
health and social outcomes for vulnerable babies and children using the Wales Electronic
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Cohort for Children (WECC), the first complete population e-cohort in the UK of 800,000
children, aimed at investigating the widest possible range of social and environmental
determinants of child health and social outcomes by exploiting the potential of routinely
collected datasets.
Shantini is currently the Scientific Lead for HealthWise Wales
(www.healthwisewales.gov.wales), which is Health and Care Research Wales' flagship
initiative for a population health research cohort in Wales.
Shantini is also a Non-Executive Director on Public Health Wales NHS Trust Board, and Chair of
the Board’s Knowledge, Research and Innovation Committee.
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Professor Andrew Sewell
Department and institution
School of Medicine, Cardiff University
Current Post
Distinguished Research Professor, Division of Infection and Immunity
Primary Research Fields
Immunology
Cancer Immunotherapy
Autoimmune Disease
Immunity to Infection
Transplant Tolerance
Contact details [email protected] 02920 687055
Biography
Professor Andy Sewell is Distinguished Research Professor in the Division Infection and
Immunity at Cardiff University School of Medicine and a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator.
His work is focused on T-cell ligands and the receptors that recognise them. Current interests
within the group include autoimmunity, transplant tolerance, cancer immunotherapy, smart
vaccination and unconventional T-cells.
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Professor Helen Snooks
Department and Institution
Medical School, Swansea University
Current Post
Professor of Health Services Research
Primary Research Field
Emergency Pre-hospital and Unscheduled Care
Secondary Research Field
Primary Care and research support
Contact details [email protected] 01792 513 418
Biography
Professor Helen Snooks is currently Professor of Health Services Research in the Medical
School at Swansea University. Professor Snooks leads the Patient and Population Health
Informatics research theme within the School. She is seconded for one and a half days a week
to the National Institute for Health Research Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating
Centre (NETSCC) at University of Southampton, as Health Technology Assessment Journal
Editor and Senior Scientific Advisor to the Health Services and Delivery Research programme.
Professor Snooks led the Trials Unit in Swansea to full registration with the UKCRC, and
retains a strong interest in experimental evaluation methods and has a strong record of grant
capture, totalling 30 million.
Her main research interests and expertise lie in the fields of Emergency Pre-hospital and
Unscheduled Care, Primary Care, and research support. In these areas, the focus of her work is
to plan, design and carry out evaluations of health technologies and new models of service
delivery which often involve changing roles and working across boundaries between service
providers. The research is applied, pragmatic and leads to change and impact in the real world
of policy and practice. She actively encourages and supports public and patient involvement
in her research to enhance relevance, accountability and quality. Her work is strongly patient-
focused and collaborative, and uses mixed methods to achieve study aims.
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Professor Rhiannon Tudor Edwards
Department and Institution
College of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University
Current Post
Professor of Health Economics, Co-Director of the Centre for Health
Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME), Director of the Welsh
Health Economics Support Service
Primary Research Field
Health Economics
Secondary Research Field
Medicines Evaluation
Contact details [email protected] 01248 382153
Biography
Rhiannon Tudor Edwards BSC. Econ, M.A., D.Phil., Hon. MFPH is Professor of Health Economics
and the founding Director of health economics research at Bangor University and Co-Director
of the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation. She is also Director of the
Welsh Health Economics Support Service. Rhiannon has eight PhD students and teaches
Health Economics and Public Health Economics at postgraduate level.
Rhiannon works closely with Public Health Wales and was a UK Faculty of Public Health
examiner for three years. Rhiannon is registered blind, has been a guide dog owner for 15
years and has a growing interest in the application of health economics to
technologies/services to support people living with disability. She is currently part of an
international collaboration looking at low vision service models.
Professor Tudor Edwards graduated with degrees from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
and the University of Calgary, Canada. She completed her PhD thesis at The University of York,
on NHS waiting lists as a rationing mechanism in public health care.
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Professor John Williams CBE
Department and institution
Swansea University Medical School
Current Post
Professor of Health Services Research
Primary Research Field
Gastroenterology
Secondary Research Field
Health Services
Health Informatics
Service Delivery
Patient Outcome
Contact details [email protected] 01792 513 401
Biography
Professor Williams is currently Professor of Health Services Research at Swansea University’s
College of Medicine. From 2002 - 2007 he was Wales Director of Research and Development,
a post in which he established the Clinical Research Collaboration in Wales.
Professor Williams’ main research interests are gastroenterology, health informatics, service
delivery, and patient outcome. He chiefly focuses on better diagnosis, treatments and services
- particularly in gastroenterology - and on increasing patient involvement in these
processes. He has researched novel means of outpatient services delivery and changing roles
in gastrointestinal endoscopy, and has led multicentre trials in inflammatory bowel
disease. He has evaluated the use of routinely collected data to support research, audit and
professional appraisal, highlighting the need for improvement in the quality of the data
recorded in patient records and clinical communications.
From 2001 to 2019 Professor Williams led Health Informatics at the Royal College of
Physicians where he drove the development of consensus based national standards for the
structure and content of patient records and communications. This work is now being taken
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forward by the Professional Record Standards Body, which he was instrumental in
establishing. He also drove the creation of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, of which he is a
founding fellow.
In 2014 Professor Williams received a CBE for services to medicine.
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