University of Dundee
Dundee
United Kingdom
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Biographical Sketch: PETER DAVEY is Professor in Pharmacoeconomics and Lead Clinician for Clinical Quality Improvement in the Medical School. He is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases for NHS Tayside and a Board Member of the Centre for Organisational Effectiveness. He was the first Director of the Health Informatics Centre. He led the team that secured £2.4m funding to establish HIC and procured the Mackenzie Building. His research currently focuses on improving the quality and safety of medical care, particularly on improving prescribing and infection control. He has nearly thirty years experience of research focused on the outcomes of antimicrobial chemotherapy and the relationships between prescribing and resistance. He has over 200 publications in peer reviewed journals. He has a leading role in two large European Union projects: ESAC (European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption and BURDEN (Burden of Resistance and Disease in European Nations). Within ESAC he is the lead for the Hospital Care Subproject and also Chair of the UK ESAC Network. Within BURDEN he leads two Work Packages, on Identification of Information Needs and on Case Studies Using Routine Data to Measure Outcomes. His other current major research project is leading the Work Package on Measurement in Primary Care for the Scottish Patient Safety Research Network, funded by Scottish Funding Council. He is Education Secretary of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and was President from 2006-9. He is also a past President of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. He chairs the Scottish National Audit Project on Community Acquired Pneumonia for the Scottish Medicines Consortium. He was a member of the team that wrote the Scottish Management of Antimicrobial Resistance Action Plan (launched in 2008) and of the Department of Health’s Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance.