Colin Mccowan
Professor
Department of Health & Wellbeing
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr.Colin McCowan is currently working as a Professor of Health Informatics (Robertson Centre for Biostatistics), Associate (School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing) in University of Glasgow, UK.
Research Interest
Professor McCowan has research interests in the use of existing routine data within epidemiological studies and in the support of clinical trials and other research methods. He has an interest in the provisioning of data for research and the Robertson Centre jointly runs the West of Scotland Safe Haven with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, providing access to routine clinical data for research. He leads the capacity building work stream of the Farr Institute and has published widely in the epidemiological and clinical medicine literature.
Publications
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Sullivan, F.M. et al. (2017) Detection in blood of autoantibodies to tumour antigens as a case-finding method in lung cancer using the EarlyCDT®-Lung Test (ECLS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC Cancer, 17, 187. (doi:10.1186/s12885-017-3175-y) (PMID:28284200) (PMCID:PMC5346215)
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Scott, P. J., Cornet, R., McCowan, C. , Peek, N., Fraccaro, P., Geifman, N., Gude, W. T., Hulme, W., Martin, G. P. and Williams, R. (2017) Informatics for Health 2017: Advancing both science and practice. Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 24(1), (doi:10.14236/jhi.v24i1.939) (PMID:28665785)
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Packard, C. J., Young, R., Ross, K., Ford, I., Ambegaonkar, B. M., Brudi, P. and McCowan, C. (2017) Modelling total coronary heart disease burden and long-term benefit of cholesterol lowering in middle aged men with and without a history of cardiovascular disease. European Heart Journal: Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, (doi:10.1093/ehjqcco/qcx012) (Early Online Publication)
