Prof GREG IRVING, MA (Cantab) MSc (Oxon) MPH PhD FRCGP MRCP PFPH FAcadMEd

Greg is an academic General Practitioner with an interest in primary care research focusing on multiple long-term conditions and service delivery. He completed his medical training in Nottingham before going on to postgraduate studies at Oxford and Liverpool, then worked as a Clinical Lecturer in Cambridge. He has also previously studied as a Global Clinical Scholar at Harvard University. He has received three consecutive personal National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Fellowships. He has secured external grant funding of over £9 million and has consistently featured in the Stanford World Top 1% of scientists in his field. His work has contributed to over 70 policy reports on primary care across 30 organisations, including the WHO, OECD, European Observatory, World Bank, and NICE. Greg works as a General Practitioner and Consultant in Primary Care in St Helens. He leads an NIHR Primary Care Reseach Hub in his practice. 

Greg is Director of the Health Research Institute and Director of the Edge Hill Primary and Integrated Care (EPIC). Greg's research interests have focused on developing and evaluating complex interventions for use in primary care. He has experience in systematic reviews, randomised trials, observational studies along with qualitative research approaches. He has experience of working with large dataset including UK BioBank, CPRD and routine health and social data. Greg is the Deputy Lead for the NIHR North West Coast Complex Intervention Theme. Greg currently supervises two NIHR North West Coast Applied Research Collaboration PhD studentships (Anna Evans and Lucy Kaluvu) focusing multimorbidity and health care use.  

Greg is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators. He leads the complexity and uncertainty theme on the MBChB at Edge Hill Medical School. His medical education interests reflect those of his research interests and in addition have focused on Deep End General Practice, global health, workplace based training and role modelling.

Greg is the National Speciality Lead for General Practice in the NIHR Research Delivery Network and Deputy Chair of on the NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research funding panel. He is a nationally elected member of the Society of Academic Primary Care (SAPC) Executive committee. Greg has previously sat on the NICE Medical Technology Advisory committee, the UK National Screening Committee and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Council. He is Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and is a past recipient of the highly prestigious Yvonne Carter award for primary care research. Internationally he worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) information, evidence and research cluster and was the research lead for the WONCA Vasco da Gama movement. Greg is currently a supervisor on the 'UpCARE' Yokohama-Kawasaki Urban Primary Care and Social Medicine Fellowship program in Japan. 

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