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Head of Primary Care
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Disclosure(s): AstraZeneca: Grant/Research Support, Principal investigator; NIHR Applied Research Collaboration, Oxford Thames Valley: Director; Oxford BRC and NIHR MedTech: Investigator; UKRI and NIHR: Grant/Research Support
Professor Richard Hobbs, Nuffield Professor of Primary Care, Head of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, and Director of the Institute of Digital Health, University of Oxford.
Also a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford, sits on the University governing body (Council), and is a University Trustee. Served on many national and international scientific and research funding boards in UK, Ireland, Canada, and WHO, including the BHF Council, British Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, and the ESC Council for Cardiovascular Primary Care. Chairs the European Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, a WONCA Special Interest Group. He was the National Director, NIHR School for Primary Care Research (2008-2021).
Leading PC academic, authored over 500 peer reviewed publications, has an h-index of 103, with >105,000 citations (>52,000 since 2017), with 115 papers with >100 citations, 17 papers >1000, and 13 papers >2000. He has an outstanding track record in cardiovascular disease research, delivering trials that changed international guidelines and practice, especially in the areas of stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (BAFTA, SAFE, and SMART trials), heart failure burden and diagnosis (ECHOES and REFER trials), and hypertension self-management (TASMINH 1-5). He also leads a new Institute of Applied Digital Science at Oxford.
At the onset of COVID-19, re-tasked much of his research to urgent COVID studies and is co-CI of UK National Priority Studies [UK repurposed therapies platform trial (PRINCIPLE), UK COVID Surveillance (Oxford-RCGP RSC), UK PC diagnostics (RAPTOR/CONDOR), and the UK COVID novel anti-viral platform trial ({PANORAMIC). He also led a population COVID screening pilot trial using lateral flow tests (FACTS) as part of the Prime Minister’s Operation Moonshot and was UK PI on the AZ TACKLE trial..
Recipient of the fifth RCGP Discovery Prize in 2018 and awarded a CBE for services to medical research in 2019 Queen’s Honours List.