Dr Stuart Rison, BSc. (ARCS), MSc., PhD., MBBS.

Profile

I am an Out of Hours GP in Hackney and a Clinical Research fellow in the Centre for Primary Care’s Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG) with a special interest in the use of medical data in the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease.

Following a BSc. in Microbiology at Imperial College and an MSc. in Computational Biology at the University of Manchester, I completed a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at UCL and, afterwards, a post-doctoral research post at the Royal Veterinary College investigating the genomes of mycobacteria (including Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and various associated organisms.

After a brief segue in scientific research programme management (at Microsoft Research (Cambridge) and then with the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity), I retrained as a doctor and obtained my MBBS. from Kings College London in 2011 qualifying as a GP in 2018 via a Clinical Research Fellow post at Hammersmith Hospital. My work focuses on health inequities in the detection, monitoring and effective treatment as well of hypertension and hyperlipidaemia. I am also a member of the PRELUDE-1 study, a pilot project investigating the inclusion of Fib-4 scores in type 2 diabetes annual reviews for early identification of fatty liver disease. In addition, I am a module lead for the Wellcome Trust funded Health Data in practice MRes/PhD programme and I teach the first semester “Health Data in Practice” module. In my spare time, I like to throw pots (from clay, not on the floor), grown dahlias and I’m thinking about joining an ice-hockey team.

Research

Research Interests:

Health Data in practice

Primary care data

Hypertension

Cardiovascular disease

Fatty liver disease

Machine learning

Publications

Rison SC, Redfern O, Dostal I, Carvalho C, Mathur R, Raisi-Estabragh Z, Robson J. Inequities in hypertension management: observational cross-sectional study in North East London using electronic health records. Br J Gen Pract. 2023 Oct 26;73(736):e798-e806. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0077

Rison SC, Mathur R, Carvalho C, Robson JP. Inequities in hypertension: we can do better... but how? Br J Gen Pract. 2023 Oct 26;73(736):486-487. doi: 10.3399/bjgp23X735261.

Rison SC, Carvalho C, Rull G, Robson J. Investigating hypertension in younger patients. BMJ. 2022 Mar 24;376:e067924. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067924. PMID: 35332032.

Wu R, Rison SC, Raisi-Estabragh Z, Dostal I, Carvalho C, Robson J, Mihaylova B. Gaps in antihypertensive and statin treatments and benefits of optimisation: a modelling study in a 1 million ethnically diverse urban population in UK. BMJ Open. 2021 Dec 30;11(12):e052884. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052884.

Carvalho C, Williams C, Raisi-Estabragh Z, Rison SC, Patel RS, Timmis A, Robson J. Application of a risk stratification tool for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: an observational cross-sectional study in an unselected urban population. Heart. 2021 Jul 12;107(15):1220-1225.

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