Newcastle University

Professor Frank Sullivan

• Gordon F. Cheesbrough Research Chair and Director of UTOPIAN, University of Toronto & Honorary Professor, University of Dundee
• University of Toronto, Canada

Professor Frank Sullivan FRSE, FRCP, FRCGP

Frank has been an academic GP since joining a practice in Blantyre, Lanarkshire in 1984.  During his early years in practice he undertook a PhD in Glasgow University and a sabbatical year to work as a GP in the Seychelles.  He left to take up the NHS Tayside chair of General Practice and Primary Care in the University of Dundee in 1998.  He was appointed as the Director of the Scottish School of Primary Care in 2007.

Frank's research interests lie mainly in health informatics and community based trials, covering the spectrum from record-linkage of electronic health records to decision support to the evaluation of complex interventions.

He has published widely on a number of different types of primary care research notably in the management of long-term conditions such as diabetes and coronary heart disease in the community. He has published 200 journal articles including the BMA research paper of the year in 2009 for a New England Journal of Medicine Paper on the early management of Bell’s Palsy.  He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011.

Professor Sullivan is currently the Gordon F. Cheesbrough Research Chair and Director of UTOPIAN while on sabbatical in Toronto, Canada. Frank is the primary care contact for NATTINA in Scotland and has assisted with the trial design and grant application.