Dr Gill Price
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Lecturer |
Gill dot Price at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 1267 |
Medical School 2.06A |
Biography
QUALIFICATIONS
BSc Physiol. & Biochem., University of Stellenbosch, S.Africa.BSc. (Hons.)(Med.) Med. Biochem., University of Cape Town, S.Africa.
MSc (distinction) Human Nutrition, University of London
PhD, Nutritional Metabolism, University of London
MSc (distinction) Medical Statistics, University of London
Dipl. (Higher Education Practice): University of East Anglia
EMPLOYMENT
1983-1986 Research officer, National Food Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, S.Africa.1991-1997 Scientific officer, Nutritional Statistics Group, MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, UK.
1998-1999 Senior Research Officer, MRC Institute for Environment and Health, Leicester
2000-2004 Research fellow then lecturer, Dept Epidemiology & Population Health, LSHTM, University of London
2004-date Lecturer, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Academic Background
- 1981 BSc Physiol. & Biochem., University of Stellenbosch, S.Africa.
- 1982 BSc. (Hons.)(Med.) Med. Biochem., University of Cape Town, S.Africa.
- 1987 MSc (distinction) Human Nutrition, University of London
- 1992 PhD, Nutritional Metabolism, University of London
- 2000 MSc (distinction) Medical Statistics, University of London
Key Research Interests
My research interests are broad and include the physical and emotional well-being of older people, especially their interaction with physical activity and nutrition. They also include medical education and assessment, preventive medicine, dietary assessment methods, and applied statistical methods including those used in epidemiology and clinical trials.
Selected Publication
Miles S, Price G, Swift L, Shepstone L & Leinster S (2010) Statistics teaching in medical school: Opinions of practising doctors. BMC Medical Education 10, 75.
Swift L, Miles S, Price GM, Shepstone L & Leinster SJ (2009) Do doctors need statistics? Doctors' use of and attitudes to probability and statistics. Statistics in Medicine 28, 1969-1981.
Kenkmann A, Price G, Bolton J & Hooper L (2010) Health, wellbeing and nutritional status of older people living in UK care homes: an exploratory evaluation of changes in food and drink provision. BMC Geriatrics 10, 28.
Gupta SK, Murthy GVS, Morrison N, Price GM, Dherani M, John N, Fletcher AE & Chakravarthy U (2007) Prevalence of Early and Late Age-Related Macular Degeneration in a Rural Population in Northern India: The INDEYE Feasibility Study. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 48, 1007-1011.
Price GM, Uauy R, Breeze E, Bulpitt CJ & Fletcher AE (2006) Weight, shape, and mortality risk in older persons: elevated waist-hip ratio, not high body mass index, is associated with a greater risk of death. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 84, 449-460.
Research Group Members
Teaching Interests
Activities include:
Research methods (statistics, epidemiology and study design) for MB/BS students. The role includes lecturing, seminar-leading and tutoring, and also setting and marking analytical reviews (critical appraisal)
From 2005 to 2011 I have been unit coordinator in this topic for Year 2.
Tutoring and assessing student research for oral presentation
Member of the MED School Assessment Group
School Plagiarism officer from 2009
Article
Gray, RJ, Myint, PK, Elender, F, Barton, G, Pfeil, M, Price, G, Wyatt, N, Ravenhill, G, Thomas, E, Jagger, J, Hursey, A, Waterfield, K and Hardy, S (2011) A Depression Recognition and Treatment package for families living with Stroke (DepReT-Stroke): Study Protocol for A Randomised Controlled Trial. Trials, 12 (1). p. 105. ISSN 1745-6215
Myint, P, Potter, J, Price, G, Barton, G, Metcalf, A, Hale, R, Dalton, G, Musgrave, S, George, A, Shekhar, R, Owusu-Agyei, P, Walsh, K, Ngeh, J, Nicholson, A, Day, D, Warburton, EA and Bachmann, M (2011) Evaluation of stroke services in Anglia stroke clinical network to examine the variation in acute services and stroke outcomes. BMC Health Services Research, 11 (1). p. 50. ISSN 1472-6963
Kenkmann, A, Price, GM, Bolton, J and Hooper, L (2010) Health, wellbeing and nutritional status of older people living in UK care homes: an exploratory evaluation of changes in food and drink provision. BMC Geriatrics, 10 (1). p. 28.
Miles, Susan, Price, Gill, Swift, Louise, Shepstone, Lee and Leinster, Sam J (2010) Statistics teaching in medical school: Opinions of practising doctors. BMC Medical Education, 10 (1). p. 75. ISSN 1472-6920
Swift, L, Miles, S, Price, GM, Shepstone, L and Leinster, SJ (2009) Do doctors need statistics? Doctors' use of and attitudes to probability and statistics. Statistics in Medicine, 28 (15). pp. 1969-1981.
Dherani, M, Murthy, GVS, Gupta, SK, Young, IS, Maraini, G, Camparini, M, Price, GM, John, N, Chakravarthy, U and Fletcher, AE (2008) Blood levels of vitamin C, carotenoids and retinol are inversely associated with cataract in a north Indian population. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 49 (8). pp. 3328-3335.
Small, MDC, Barrett, A and Price, GM (2008) The impact of computerized prescibing on eroor rate in a department of Oncology/hematology. Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice, 14 (4). pp. 181-187.
Gupta, SK, Murthy, GVS, Morrison, N, Price, GM, Dherani, M, John, N, Fletcher, AE and Chakravartby, U (2007) Prevalence of Early and Late Age-Related Macular Degeneration in a Rural Population in Northern India: The INDEYE Feasibility Study. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 48 (3). pp. 1007-1011.
Murthy, G, Gupta, S, Maraini, G, Camparini, M, Price, GM, Dherani, M, John, N, Chakravarthy, U and Fletcher, A (2007) Prevalence of Lens Opacities in North India: The INDEYE Feasibility Study. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 48 (1). pp. 88-95.
Tehrani, H, Walls, J, Price, GM, Cotton, S, Sassoon, EM and Hall, PN (2007) A Prospective Comparison of Spectrophotometric Intracutaneous Analysis to Clinical Judgment in the Diagnosis of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer. Annals of Plastic Surgery, 58 (2). pp. 209-211.
Price, GM, Uauy, R, Breeze, E, Bulpitt, CJ and Fletcher, AE (2006) Weight, shape and mortality risk in older persons: elevated Waist Hip Ratio, not high Body Mass Index, is associated with a greater risk of death. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 84 (2). pp. 449-460.
Tehrani, H, Walls, J, Price, GM, Cotton, S, Sassoon, E and Hall, P (2006) A novel imaging technique as an adjunct to the in vivo diagnosis of nonmelanoma skin cancer. British Journal of Dermatology, 155 (6). pp. 1177-1183.
Adamson, J, Price, GM, Breeze, E, Bulpitt, CJ and Fletcher, AE (2005) Are older people dying of depression? Findings from the MRC Trial of the assessment and management of older people in the community. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 53 (7). pp. 1128-1132.
Breeze, E, Mangtani, P, Fletcher, AE, Price, GM, Kovats, S and Roberts, J (2004) Trends in influenza vaccination uptake among people aged over 74 years, 1997-2000: survey of 73 general practices in Britain. BMC Family Practice, 5 (1). p. 8.
Fletcher, AE, Price, GM, Ng, ES, Stirling, SL, Bulpitt, CJ, Breeze, E, Nunes, M, Jones, DA, Latif, A, Fasey, NM, Vickers, MR and Tulloch, AJ (2004) Population-based multidimensional assessment of older people in UK general practice: a cluster-randomised factorial trial. The Lancet, 364 (9446). pp. 1667-1677.
Walters, K, Breeze, E, Wilkinson, P, Price, GM, Bulpitt, CJ and Fletcher, A (2004) Local area deprivation and urban-rural differences in anxiety and depression among people older than 75 years in Britain. American Journal of Public Health, 94 (10). pp. 1768-1774.
West, J, Hippisley-Cox, J, Coupland, CA, Price, GM, Groom, LM, Kendrick, D and Webber, E (2004) Do rates of hospital admission for falls and hip fracture in elderly people vary by socio-economic status? Public Health, 118 (8). pp. 576-581.
Myles, JP, Price, GM, Hunter, N, Day, M and Duffy, SW (2003) A potentially useful distribution model for dietary intake data. Public Health Nutrition, 6 (5). pp. 513-519.
Book Section
Swift, L and Price, GM (2011) Statistics Teaching at Medical School. In: The Changing Face of Medical Education. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, Milton Keynes, UK.
Monograph
Tupper-Carey, D, Price, G, Sai, R, Elumogo, E and Hawke, C (2007) Does relocating to a newly designed ICU reduce Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) patient aquisition rates? Meeting Abstract. Journal of the Intensive Care Society 8, 56.
Conference or Workshop Item
Smith, J. R., Noble, M. J., Musgrave, S. D., Murdoch, J., Price, G, Martin, A., Windley, J., Holland, R., Harrison, B. D. W., Price, D., Howe, A., Harvey, I. and Wilson, A. M. (2010) S137 The At-Risk Registers in Severe Asthma (ARRISA) Study: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in primary care. In: British Thoracic Society, December 2010, London.
Price, GM, Miles, S, Swift, L, Shepstone, L and Leinster, SJ (2008) What should we teach undergraduate medical students about probability and statistics? In: Interactive poster presentation at the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Annual Conference 2008, , 30th August-3rd September 2008. , Prague Conference Centre, Prague Czech Republic..
Price, GM, Miles, S, Swift, L, Shepstone, L and Leinster, SJ (2008) How doctors think their own undergraduate teaching in probability and statistics could have been improved. In: Annual Meeting for Teachers of Medical Statistics 2008. , 10th April 2008. , Burwalls Centre for Continuing Education, Bristol..
Miles, S, Swift, L, Price, GM, Shepstone, L and Leinster, SJ (2007) Perceived usefulness of undergraduate teaching in probability and statistics for medical doctors? In: Association for the Study of Medical Education, Golden Jubilee Conference, Dublin.
Camparini, M, Murthy, G, Gupta, S, Price, GM, Maraini, G, Chakravarthy, U and Fletcher, A (2004) Prevalence of lens opacities in Northern India. In: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, USA, ARVO, Inc.
Chakravarthy, U, Murthy, G, Gupta, S, Price, GM, Dherani, M, Morrison, N and Fletcher, A (2004) Prevalence of age related maculopathy in Northern India. In: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. (Fort Lauderdale.
Price, GM, Uauy, R, Breeze, E, Bulpitt, CJ and Fletcher, AE (2004) Is elevated body mass index associated with increased risk of mortality in people over 75 years old? In: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, CABI Publishing.
External Activities and Indicators of Esteem
- prestigious personal fellowships,
- invited named lectures and key note addresses,
- chairing or positions on national or international bodies, review boards, funding bodies, NHS advisory committees
- editorial activities (including, for example, membership of the editorial boards of journals)
- activities that have impacted on government policy, national or international practice development,
- honours or awards to you as an individual in recognition of your research/ teaching or professional activities
- key collaborations/networks that you are a member of which are of national or international standing
Professional Activities
- Member of Royal Statistical Society and Nutrition Society
- Statistical referee for the Lancet and for NIHR grant applications
- Member of UK Teachers of Medical Statistics (Burwalls) group
Administrative Posts/Responsibilities
- Member of MED Assessment Group
- MED Plagiarism Officer
- Chair of UEA Plagiarism Working Group
