Prof Frank Sullivan
Director of Research
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 University of St. Andrews in 2017 where he is also the Director of Research in the School of Medicine. 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. His clinical practice is currently in Glenrothes.
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
- Lamorna Brown
- Joseph Harrison
- Katrin Metsis
- Emma Davies
- Josephine Murray
- Andrew Blaikie
Selected publications
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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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Open access
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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Open access
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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Open access
'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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Open access
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
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Open access
Conservative management versus tonsillectomy in adults with recurrent acute tonsillitis in the UK (NATTINA): a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial
Wilson, J. A., O'Hara, J., Fouweather, T., Homer, T., Stocken, D. D., Vale, L., Haighton, C., Rousseau, N., Wilson, R., McSweeney, L., Wilkes, S., Morrison, J., MacKenzie, K., Ah-See, K., Carrie, S., Hopkins, C., Howe, N., Hussain, M., Mehanna, H., Raine, C., & 3 others , 17 Jun 2023, In: The Lancet. 401, 10393, p. 2051-2059Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Diabetes care among individuals with and without schizophrenia in three Canadian provinces: a retrospective cohort study
O'Neill, B., Yusuf, A., Kurdyak, P., Kiran, T., Sullivan, F., Chen, T., Kalia, S., Eisen, D., Anderson, E., Selby, P. & Campbell, D., 8 May 2023, In: General hospital psychiatry. 82, p. 19-25 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Effect of free medicine distribution on health care costs in Canada over 3 years: a secondary analysis of the CLEAN meds randomized clinical trial
Persaud, N., Bedard, M., Boozary, A., Glazier, R. H., Gomes, T., Hwang, S. W., Jüni, P., Law, M. R., Mamdani, M., Manns, B., Martin, D., Morgan, S. G., Oh, P., Pinto, A. D., Shah, B. R., Sullivan, F., Umali, N., Thorpe, K. E., Tu, K., Wu, F., & 2 others , 26 May 2023, In: JAMA Health Forum. 4, 5, 8 p., e231127.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Emulating a target trial using primary care electronic health records: SGLT-2i medications and Hemoglobin A1c
Kalia, S., Saarela, O., O'Neill, B., Meaney, C., Moineddin, R., Sullivan, F. & Greiver, M., 1 May 2023, In: American Journal of Epidemiology. 192, 5, p. 782-789 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Factors associated with recruitment to randomised controlled trials in general practice: a systematic mixed studies review
Moffat, K. R., Shi, W., Cannon, P. & Sullivan, F., 6 Feb 2023, In: Trials. 24, 19 p., 90.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review