Professor Stuart Logan is the Director of the new Peninsula Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (PenCLAHRC).
Peninsula NIHR Clinical Research Director appointed
Professor Stuart Logan has been appointed to the position of Director of the Peninsula Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (PenCLAHRC).
PenCLAHRC is a partnership between the Peninsula Medical School, NHS South West, the NHS throughout Devon and Cornwall and the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth. It has been awarded £20 million to conduct research and improve care in major conditions including heart disease, diabetes, mental illness, childhood disability and age related conditions as well as the impact of the environment on health.
The key objective of PenCLAHRC is to test treatments and new ways of working in specific clinical areas, to see if they are effective and appropriate for everyday use in the health service. Where potential improvements are identified, PenCLAHRC will help NHS staff to incorporate them into their everyday working practices, so that patients across the local community and beyond receive a better standard of healthcare.
Professor Logan has been Director of Health Service Research at the Peninsula Medical School for six years. He is the Cerebra Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Paediatrics in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
His particular interest is the generation of research of direct relevance to policy and practice and helping to make research more accessible and useful to practitioners and to families. Major areas of research are the evaluation of complex interventions, particularly in childhood disability, and on the effects of social inequalities on child health. He is also involved in the teaching of evidence-based practice to undergraduates and to clinicians working in child health.
He said: “I am delighted to have been appointed Director of PenCLAHRC, which represents the most exciting development in clinical research policy in the South West for many years. This initiative hugely increases the resources available for colleagues at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth and within the NHS to investigate key research questions and implement the results which will have a direct effect on the delivery of health care across the region.”
Professor Sir John Tooke, Dean of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, added: “Stuart is the ideal candidate for the job, which will see him work closely with our partners to ensure that the objectives of PenCLAHRC are met and this exciting new approach to improving the effectiveness of healthcare succeeds. His commitment to high standards of health services research and profound experience as a teacher of evidence based practice over a distinguished career will ensure the programme will be of the highest quality.”
More information is available by visiting the PenCLAHRC website.
Date: 7 October 2008
