elderly care and community medicine

Name: Dr Amanda Nicholson

Academic position: Research Fellow in Primary Care Epidemiology

Research: Use of primary care databases for epidemiological research

Contact details:

Room 322 Mayfield House
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9PH

Tel: +44 (0)1273 644143
Fax: +44 (0)1273 644440

E-mail: a.c.nicholson@bsms.ac.uk

Biography:

BA Medical Science, University of Cambridge. 1984
MB BS, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, University of London. 1987
MSc Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine. 1992
Clinical Lecturer in Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London. 1992-1996
PhD Epidemiology, University of London. 2003
Clinical Research Fellow, Central and Eastern Europe Research Group, University College London. 2003-2008.

Research focus:

Much of my research work has concerned the impact of the social environment on health. In particular I have focused on the role of depression in mediating between the external world and physical health, the persisting influence of early life conditions on adult health and the epidemiology of mental illness. More recently I have studied the role of religious involvement on health in European countries, and specifically whether religious involvement can affect the impact of social conditions on health.

I am now moving from working with cohort studies to investigating the potential for primary care databases and electronic patient records to contribute to epidemiological research across a range of disciplines.

Key/recent publications:

Nicholson A, Pikhart H, Pajak A, Malyutina S, Kubinova R, Peasey A, Topor-Madry R, Nikitin Y, Bobak M, Marmot M. Socio-economic status over the life-course and depressive symptoms in men and women in Eastern Europe J Affective Disorders, 105: 125-136, 2008.

Nicholson A, Kuper H, Hemingway H. Depression as an aetiologic and prognostic factor in coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis of 6362 events among 146 538 participants in 54 observational studies. European Heart Journal; 27, 2763-2774. 2006

Nicholson A, Bobak M, Murphy M, Rose R, Marmot M. Socio-economic influences on self- rated health in Russian men and women - a life course approach. Soc Sci Med 61: 2345-54, 2005

Nicholson A, Bobak M, Murphy M, Rose R, Marmot M. Alcohol consumption is associated with increased all-cause mortality in Russian men and women: a cohort study based on the mortality of relatives WHO Bulletin 83: 812-819, 2005.

Nicholson A, Fuhrer R. Marmot M. Psychological distress as a predictor of CHD events in men : the effect of persistence and components of risk. Psychosomatic Medicine. 67: 522- 530, 2005

Nicholson A, Alberman E. Cerebral palsy - an increasing contributor to mental retardation? Archives Diseases in Childhood 67:1050-1055, 1992.

Nicholson A, Alberman E. Prediction of the number of Down's syndrome infants to be born in England and Wales upto the year 2000 and their likely survival rates. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 36:505-517, 1992.