Professor Ian Russell

Ian Russell has been Founding Professor of Clinical Trials at Swansea University since October 2008. He is a career health services researcher who specialises in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of pragmatic randomised trials to evaluate complex interventions in health care. He was an early protagonist of both patient-reported measures of health outcome within trials and systematic reviews to synthesise the findings of trials.

Education
Cambridge (MA in Mathematics)
Birmingham (MSc in Statistics)
Essex (PhD inHealth Services Research)
Aberdeen (Hon DSc in Health Services Research)

Academic appointments
Newcastle (where he researched mainly into general practice),
North Carolina (mainly into ambulatory care),
Aberdeen (where he was Director of the Scottish Health Services Research Unit, and researched mainly into acute services)
Cardiff(while Director of the Welsh Office of Research and Development for Health and Social Care)
York (where he was Professor of Health Sciences and Director of the York Trials Unit).
Bangor (where he was Professor of Public Health and Director of the North Wales Organisation for Randomised trials in Health)