Dr. Greg Irving

SAPC Co-Treasurer, Executive member

Reader in General Practice

irvingg@edgehill.ac.uk

Areas of interest: My current research contributes to efforts aimed at preventing the growing burden of chronic disease. This involves translating epidemiological knowledge into preventive action, and evaluating the effectiveness of different preventive approaches.

Associate Director Health Research Institute

Edge Hill University Medical School

GP and Consultant in Primary Care

St.Helens CCG Governing Body Member

Website profile

Twitter: @gregjirving

SAPC related publications:

http://ino.sagepub.com/content/3/9/549.abstract

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184534/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899736/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23141613

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23643224

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22284950

Articles on this site

International Links and Collaborations

10 Sep 2015

The SAPC has strong links with a number of international academic primary care organisations around the world and is open to international membership

Academic careers for GP trainees: an introduction

02 Sep 2015

Combined clinical and academic training programmes invest in people early in their career who can implement their acquired skills throughout the major part of their career. The valuable translation from practice to research and vice versa becomes a quality inherent in clinician researchers who have finished their combined program. Whilst combined research training in General Practice has developed strongly and consistently over the last decade, compared to other specialities, research capacity remains relatively modest especially at the doctoral level and post-doctoral level.