Professor of Primary and Prehospital Health Care Company, University of Lincoln
Bio
Niroshan (Niro) Siriwardena is Professor of Primary and Prehospital Health Care at the University of Lincoln (https://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/nsiriwardena). He trained in medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College London and in general practice in Lincolnshire, followed by research training at Nottingham and De Montfort Universities.
He is director of the Community and Health Research Unit (https://www.cahru.org.uk/), a research centre which focusses on quality improvement and implementation research, including studies aimed at development and evaluation of quality measures and health technologies in primary care and ambulance services. He is also director of Lincoln Clinical Trials Unit.
He has published over 130 research studies, including the Prehospital Outcomes for Evidence Based Evaluation research programme, in leading journals, with funding of over £30 million in the past 15 years including from the National Institute for Health Research, Research Councils, Health Foundation and Wellcome Trust.