PsySTAR at University of Glasgow

Professor Frances Mair

Professor of Primary Care Research (General Practice and Primary Care)
MD, DRCOG, FRCGP
Email Frances.Mair@glasgow.ac.uk    
Telephone 0141 330-8335
Link to CV 

Professor Mair is Professor of Primary Care Research and Head of General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Glasgow, based within the Institute of Health and Wellbeing. She is also a practicing general practitioner at the McColl Medical Practice based within Thornliebank Health Centre in Glasgow.

She leads a programme of research looking at the implementation and evaluation of innovative services and technologies and care delivery with a particular focus on multimorbidity, including heart failure using mixed methodologies. She has contributed to the development and dissemination of Normalization Process Theory (NPT), which can be used to help increase understanding of why health care interventions, technologies, and practices are implemented, embedded, and integrated in practice or not. She is interested in exploring the wider potential of NPT to help understand and conceptualize other complex phenomena such as self-management of long term conditions including the concept of treatment burden in those with mental health problems. She is particularly interested in complex health problems, for example the problems of depression co-morbid with chronic illness and rationalizing the organization of health services to promote more person centred care and has vast experience of using e-Health to improve the quality of care of those with long term conditions.