Bruce

Biography

Professor Guthrie is currently Professor of Primary Care Medicine at the University of Dundee Medical School where he leads the Quality, Safety and Informatics Research Group, which conducts applied research to translate basic and clinical research into effective and reliable clinical practice. He was previously a Medical Research Council Health Services Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh, an National Institute for Health Research post-doctoral research fellow at University of Dundee, and a 2006/7 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy at University of California San Francisco where he was also a Visiting Professor in 2010. His main research interests are the quality and safety of healthcare, particularly in primary care and currently focused on prescribing and the organisation of healthcare. Professor Guthrie is a mixed methods researcher and collaborate with researchers from a wide range of disciplines and institutions. He regularly reviews for various grant-making bodies and journals, contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching, and supervise and examine MSc and PhD students in Dundee and other universities. As well as conducting research, Professor Guthrie practices clinically in a general practice in Cardenden in NHS Fife, and is a member of a number of National Health Service advisory bodies. In 2014, he was appointed the Scottish Primary Care Research Champion by Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office, and was appointed by NICE to chair the guideline development group for the NICE Clinical Guideline on Multimorbidity.

Research Interest

My main research interests are the quality and safety of healthcare, particularly in primary care and currently focused on prescribing and the organisation of healthcare. I am a mixed methods researcher and collaborate with researchers from a wide range of disciplines and institutions.  Current research grants Chief Investigator Guthrie B, Donnan P, Grant S, Mellon N, Dreischulte T. Enhanced Medication Summaries to reduce high-risk prescribing in people with polypharmacy in primary care: a cluster randomised trial. Chief Scientist Office Oct 2015 to Jan 2018. £224,992 Guthrie B, Davey P, Clarkson J, Marwick S. Improvement Science PhD Programme Award. Health Foundation Oct 2013 to Sep 2017. £278,872 Guthrie B, Rees C, Dowell J. UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) Research Data Management. UKCAT Consortium Apr 2011 to Mar 2016 Extension £91,339 Main fellowship supervisor or mentor Hernandez Santiago V, Guthrie B, Davey PG, Marwick CA. A multilevel analysis of the impact of changes in antimicrobial prescribing on antimicrobial resistance. Chief Scientist Office Clinical Academic Fellowship for Dr Virginia Hernandez Santiago. Jan 2013 to Dec 2016. £232,847 Co-applicant Reynish E, Bowes A, Rutherford A, Donnan PT, Guthrie B. Understanding the outcomes of people with cognitive impairment and/or dementia admitted to the general hospital. NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme. Jun 2015 to May 2017. £290,306. Salisbury C, Hollinghurst S, Mercer S, Bower P, Guthrie B, Brookes S, Heawood A, Rafi I, Mann C, Gjini A. Improving the management of patients with multimorbidity in general practice. NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme. Jan 2014 to Jun 2017. £1,890,000. Renfrew M (CI), Guthrie B (coapplicant) and others. Scottish Improvement Science Research, Development And Knowledge Translation Collaborating Centre (SISCC). Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Funding Council, NHS Health Improvement Scotland, The Health Foundation. June 2014 to May 2019. £3,500,000.