Faculty Member, General Practice and Primary Care
Professor of Primary Care Research
Division of Community Based Sciences
About
I am Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Glasgow, based within the Section of General Practice and Primary Care. I also work part time as a general practitioner at the McColl Medical Practice based within Thornliebank Health Centre in Glasgow.
I lead a programme of research looking at the implementation and evaluation of innovative services and technologies using mixed methodologies. I am particularly interested in exploring how new technologies can be used to improve health care delivery to those with long term conditions. I currently hold in in excess of £2 million in grant funding and lead a team of researchers that are looking at the implementation and evaluation of e-Health services. I am PI on research studies (funded through the DoH, SDO, SFC and GGHB) that involve collaboration with the Universities of Dundee, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Liverpool and UCL and interdisciplinary working with colleagues from medical sociology, psychology, computing science, and business and management backgrounds as well as industrial colleagues. Examples of active projects include: (http://www.sdo.nihr.ac.uk/sdo1352006.html; http://www.fastuk.org/research/projview.php?id=1334).
I was a member of the Royal Society Working Group that produced the 2006 report on Digital Healthcare and am former President of the Royal Society of Medicine Telemedicine and e-Health Section.
My main clinical interest is heart failure and my focus is examining co-morbidity and palliative care issues.(Mair FS, Blue L, Yvonne Millerick. A Palliative Care Approach for Heart Failure. In D Walsh (Ed).Palliative Medicine. Elsevier. Philadelphia, PA 2008)
A key collaborator is Professor Carl May, of the University of Newcastle, and I am particularly interested in using his Normalisation Process Theory to help increase understanding of why complex interventions become embedded or not within routine health care delivery contexts.
Contact Information
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/generalpracticeprimarycare/ourstaff/francesmair/
Department of General Practice and Primary Care
University of Glasgow
1 Horselethill Road
Glasgow G12 9LX
0141 330 8318
