Prof Frank Sullivan
Professor of Primary Care Medicine
Research areas
Frank Sullivan has been an academic GP since 1984. He was appointed as the Professor of Primary Care Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of St. Andrews in 2017. His 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. Professor Sullivan has published 234 papers on primary care research, notably in the early detection of cancer and the management of diabetes and Bell’s palsy. He won the British Medical Association Research paper of the year in 2009 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2011 – the first family physician since 1908.
From March 1998 until February 2014 he was the NHS Tayside professor of R&D in General Practice and Primary Care. In the seven years before moving to Toronto he was the clinical director of the Scottish School of Primary Care. From 2014-17 he was the inaugural Gordon F. Cheesbrough Research Chair at North York General Hospital and director of the University of Toronto’s Practice Based Research Network: UTOPIAN. He is an honorary professor in the University of Dundee, the Department of Family & Community Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and an Adjunct Scientist in the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), Ontario
PhD supervision
- Joseph Harrison
- Katrin Metsis
- Emma Davies
Selected publications
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Open access
All-cancer incidence and mortality in Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and their descendants in England and Wales
Harrison, J. I., Sullivan, F., Keenan, K. L. & Kulu, H., 2 Dec 2024, In: BMC Public Health. 24, 16 p., 3352.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Are treatment services ready for the use of big data analytics and artificial intelligence in managing opioid use disorder?
Amer, M. J., Gittins, R. E., Millana, A. M., Scheibein, F., Ferri, M., Tofighi, B., Sullivan, F., Handley, M., Busse, A., Ghosh, S. M., Baldacchino, A. M. & Tay, J., 17 Nov 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Medical Internet Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Captured by design: the drug industry and UK healthcare
McCartney, M., Sullivan, F. & Abbasi, K., 19 Feb 2024, In: The BMJ. 384, q408.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Conceptualisation of health among young people: a protocol for systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Metsis, K., Inchley, J., Williams, A. J., Vrahimis, S., Brown, L. & Sullivan, F., 25 Jan 2024, Research Square, (Research Square).Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Conceptualisation of health among young people: a protocol for systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Metsis, K., Inchley, J., Williams, A. J., Vrahimis, S., Brown, L. & Sullivan, F., 27 Jul 2024, In: Systematic Reviews. 13, 8 p., 200.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Guidelines and regulations applicable to vitro diagnostic tests in the UK: a scoping review
Staworko , M., Khawar, O., Sullivan, F., Donnelly, P. D., Deeks, J. & McCartney, M., 8 Aug 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: BMJ Innovations. 10, 3, p. 60-68Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Health economic evaluation of lung cancer screening using a 2 diagnostic blood test: the Early detection of Cancer of the Lung 3 Scotland (ECLS)
Robles-Zurita, J. A., McMeekin, N., Sullivan, F., Mair, F. S. & Briggs, A., 18 Jun 2024, In: Current Oncology. 31, 6, p. 3546-3562 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Where do UK clinicians find information at the point of care? A pragmatic, exploratory study
McCartney, M., Connolly, K., Sullivan, F., Heneghan, C., Ho, E. Y. H., Hendry, B., Salisbury, C., Offer, S. & Nunan, D., 23 Oct 2024, In: BMC Primary Care. 25, 8 p., 376.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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'You feel like you’ve been duped': is the current system for health professionals declaring potential conflicts of interest in the UK fit for purpose? A mixed methods study
McCartney, M., Metsis, K., MacDonald, R., Sullivan, F., Ozakinci, G. & Boylan, A.-M., 26 Jul 2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 7, 11 p., e072996.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Breast cancer screening among females with and without schizophrenia
O'Neill, B., Yusuf, A., Lofters, A., Huang, A., Ekeleme, N., Kiran, T., Greiver, M., Sullivan, F. & Kurdyak, P., 29 Nov 2023, In: JAMA Network Open. 6, 11, 11 p., e2345530.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review