Prof Frances Mair
- Professor of Primary Care Research (General Practice and Primary Care)
telephone: 01413308335
email: Frances.Mair@glasgow.ac.uk
Professor Frances Mair is a medical graduate from Glasgow University and completed her vocational training in general practice in Glasgow, is now Professor of Primary Care Research and, at the beginning of February 2009, took over as Head of General Practice and Primary Care.
Previous posts include:
- Professor of Primary Care Research and Director of the Mersey Primary Care R&D Consortium, Dept of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, UK;
- Senior Lecturer (Clinical) in General Practice, Dept of Primary Care, University of Liverpool;
- Research Fellow in Telemedicine/Family Practice, University of Kansas Medical Centre, USA;
- Lecturer (Clinical) in General Practice, Dept of Primary Care, University of Liverpool;
- General Practitioner/Quality Assurance Physician Advisor for the US Navy/US Embassy, London,UK
She is also a visiting professor at the University of Liverpool.
The main elements of her current post are: to work with colleagues to help further raise the research profile of General Practice and Primary Care and the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, and to promote collaborative research with other Colleges and Units within the University, other academic institutions and the wider NHS. She continues to work as a GP at the McColl Medical Practice, Thornliebank Health Centre, in Glasgow.
Her main research interests are:
- Cardiovascular disease (particularly heart failure).
- Evaluating complex interventions aimed at optimising the care of patients with chronic heart failure, as well as psychological and palliative care issues in heart failure.
- E-health/Telehealthcare ("Medicine at a distance") focusing on:
- Studies of complex interventions.
- Chronic Disease Management Studies addressing implementation and sustainability issues in e-Health.
- Systematic Literature Reviews.
- The implementation of complex interventions
- Using Normalization Process Theory (NPT), to enhance understanding of the processes that hinder or promote the implementation of services.
- Using NPT to help explain normalization, or not, of treatment regimens in the daily routines of patients.
She is also a project lead on an EU FP7 Collaborative project exploring implementation strategies to support mixed language primary care consultations in a variety of European primary care settings (RESTORE).
Esteem factors
- 2001-2005 Associate Editor, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare.
- 2006-ongoing International Advisor, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare.
- 2003-2005 President of the Royal Society of Medicine, London. Telemedicine and E-Health Section
- 2006. Immediate Past President, Telemedicine and E-Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine.
- 2005-2006 Member of the Royal Society Working Group on ICTs and Health.
- 2005-ongoing Member of the Glasgow CHD Managed Care Network
- 2005-ongoing Member of the Enhanced Services and Quality and Outcomes Framework Data Sub Group, Glasgow CHD Managed Care Network.
- 2005-ongoing Member of the CSO's CHD portfolio Steering Group (PSG).
- 2005-ongoing Member of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth Reference Group.
- INVITED PAPERS
- 2010
- Clinical update: palliative care for patients with heart failure Palliative care training event, Glasgow, May 2010
- Does systematic review and theoretical framework = robust knowledg about e-health implementation? Expert seminar: "Implementing and integrating e-health: frameworks for understanding socio-technical change", University of Newcastle, May 2010
- Minimally disruptive medicine British Society of Gastroenterology, Liverpool, March 2010
- Use of patients' records in research Research seminar, Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board, February 2010
- 2009
- Primary care research: ethical issues Golden Jubilee Glasgow, West of Scotland Research Ethics Meetings November 2009
- Research requiring patient contact "Towards a Scottish Consensus on Best Practice in the use of GP Records in Research", Glasgow, June 2009
- Research and translation: evidence into practice "Health informatives professionalism: the issues for Scotland" Think-Tank Invitation Event, Health Informatics Scotland, March 2009 (Scotland)
- Understanding the implementation of e-Health: key findings from the literature Second Lifeguard Workshop, January 2009 (University of Southampton, UK)
- 2008
- What do we know about implementing e-Health? "Electronic healthcare for the 21st century", e-Health 2008 (City University, London, UK)
- 2007
- Remote access to health care and monitoring for community based patients Society for Academic Primary Care: London Regional Scientific Meeting 2007 (Madingley Hall, Cambridge)
- 2006
- Telehealthcare: overview eBrochan, Annual Meeting of the BCS Health Informatics Specialist Group Scotland, November 2006 (Glasgow)
- Telehealthcare: current role and future challenges 15th International WWW conference, 2006 (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- e-Health: what is it and what are the challenges? Practice Development Nurse Forum (PPDNF) for Scotland 2006 (NHS 24 Scotland) .
- An overview of the role of e-Health in healthcare delivery Healthcare Computing Conference, March 2006 (Harrogate, UK)
- 2005
- Heart failure developments in primary care Scottish Heart Failure Nurse Forum, Dec 2005 (Stirling, Scotland)
- Navigating through the Hypertension guidelines: multiple targets, mixed messages "The changing landscape of hypertension management", Nov 2005 (Manchester Conference Centre)
- Keynote Evidence based e-Health for better patient care BCS Health Informatics (Northern) Specialist Group, October 2005,
- A longitudinal ethnographic study of teledermatology services British Teledermatology Society Meeting, 2005 (UK)
- Keynote Evidence based e-Health Healthcare Computing Conference, March 2005 (Harrogate, UK)
- 2004
- Future health technology and the impact on health professional and patient relationships Healthcare Exchange, June 2004 (ExCeL, Docklands, London)
- Keynote Telemedicine: UK perspectives Nov 2004 (Santiago, Spain)
- Keynote Primary care research in the north west of England: p resent status, future directions Spring Conference, Halton Primary Care Trust, April 2004
- 2002
- e-Diabetes, telecare and implementation NHS Direct Online, Telemedicine Team, National Electronic Library for Health and British Telecom.
"E-Diabetes: 21st century diabetic care - a new paradigm for service delivery" Sept 2002, (BT Tower, Cleveland St, London) - Learning lessons from research "From innovation to implementation", E-Health and Telemedicine Convention, Royal Society Of Medicine/NHS Executive, London Region, May 2002 (London, UK)
- e-Diabetes, telecare and implementation NHS Direct Online, Telemedicine Team, National Electronic Library for Health and British Telecom.
- 2001
- Telemedicine: a review of the evidence "e-Health: a futurescope" 3rd International Conference on Advances in the Delivery of Care, April 2001 (London, UK
- 2010
- AWARDS
- Recipient of the 2001 AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Diana Forsythe Award for the paper: Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice: the case of telepsychiatry. May C, Gask L, Atkinson T, Ellis N, Mair F, Esmail A. Social Science in Medicine 2001; 52:1889-1901.
Subject areas in which PhD supervision can be offered
- e-Health particularly relating to implementation/integration and knowledge transfer opportunities as well as complex interventions (from professional, patient/carer, or public perspectives)
- Heart failure - particularly relating to palliative care issues, co-mordidity (particularly depression) and complex interventions
- Research using Normalisation Process Theory
- Minimally disruptive medicine addressing issues of treatment burden and multiple morbidity
- Prevalence of Depression in Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease and Stroke in Community based population.
BUPA Medical Foundation
2011 - 2013
- Development of an internet based asthma self care management tool
Scottish Executive Health Department
2011 - 2014
- Academic Fellow Post in General Practice
NES
2011 - 2012
- RESTORE: REsearch into implementation STrategies to support patients of different ORigins and language background in a variety of European primary care settings
European Commission
2011 - 2015
- Academic Fellow Post
NHS Education for Scotland
2010 - 2012
- Understanding treatment burden in Stroke Patients
Scottish Executive Health Department
2010 - 2013
- Tackling health inequalities in primary care: Can performance indicators be part of the solution?
Scottish Executive Health Department
2010 - 2011
- Developing a conceptual model of the burden of treatment and the "work" involved in living with heart failure.
Scottish Executive Health Department
2010 - 2011
- Patient, Carer and Clinician Experience of the Palliative Care Needs of Heart Failure Patients
Marie Curie Cancer Care
2010 - 2012
- Identifying and understanding the role of boundaries in facilitating or preventing e-health implementation in health and social care - a case study approach
Scottish Executive Health Department
2010 - 2011
- The use of Information and Communication Technology to integrate the preoperative assessment of patients awaiting surgery across primary and secondary care in Scotland
Scottish Executive Health Department
2010 - 2013
- The Scottish Multiple And Long Terms Conditions Study (MALT)
The Scottish School of Primary Care
2010 - 2012
- Normalising New Technologies: Building a Web Enabled Toolkit for Implementation Practitioners
ESRC
2009 - 2010
- Academic Fellow Post
NHS Education for Scotland
2009 - 2012
- Understanding the Implementation and Integration of e-Health Services
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
2009 - 2009
- A pilot study of depressive symptoms in heart failure in the community
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board
2009 - 2009
- Effect of macrolides on asthma control, airway inflammation and bacterial colonisation in smokers with asthma
MRC
2009 - 2011
- A pilot study of depressive symptoms in heart failure in the community
Greater Glasgow Primary Care NHS Trust
2007 - 2009
- A pilot study of depressive symptoms in heart failure in the community
North Glasgow University Hospitals
2007 - 2008
- Preventing hospitalisation early death from chronic heart failure in Primary Care:A randomised controlled trial of pharmacist-led medication review
Greater Glasgow Primary Care NHS Trust
2007 - 2009
- Effect of statin on asthma control and airway inflammation in smokers with asthma
MRC
2007 - 2009
- Integrating telecare systems for chronic disease management in the community - what needs to be done?
Department of Health
2007 - 2010
- e-Health:Addressing eValuation,implEmentation and integratioN (HAVEN )
Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
2007 - 2008
- e-Health:Addressing eValuation,implEmentation and integratioN (HAVEN )
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
2007 - 2008
- West of Scotland Node for Scottish Practices and Professionals involved in Research (SPPIRe)
The Scottish School of Primary Care
2006 - 2012
- Understanding the Implementation and Integration of e-Health Services
Department of Health
2006 - 2011
- The new GMS contract in primary care - the impact of governance and incentives on care
Department of Health
2006 - 2009
