Dr Stuart Rison, BSc. (ARCS), MSc., PhD., MBBS.
Senior Clinical Research Fellow (Genes & Health)
Email: s.rison@qmul.ac.uk
Profile
I am a GP in Hackney’s Homerton Hospital and a Senior Clinical Research fellow with Genes & Health, the world’s largest community-based study of genetics and health in British Bangladeshis and British Pakistanis, where I investigate the relationship between genomic variations (genomics) and traits such as cholesterol levels or conditions such as type 2 diabetes.
Following a BSc. in Microbiology at Imperial College and an MSc. in Computational Biology at the University of Manchester, I completed a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at UCL and, afterwards, a post-doctoral research post at the Royal Veterinary College investigating the genomes of mycobacteria (including Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and various associated organisms.
After a brief segue in scientific research programme management (at Microsoft Research (Cambridge) and then with the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity), I retrained as a doctor and obtained my MBBS. from Kings College London in 2011 qualifying as a GP in 2018 via a Clinical Research Fellow post at Hammersmith Hospital. This was followed by a clinical research fellowship in QMUL’s Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG) where my work focused on health inequities in the detection, monitoring and effective treatment as well of hypertension and hyperlipidaemia. I am also a member of the PRELUDE-1 study, a pilot project investigating the inclusion of Fib-4 scores in type 2 diabetes annual reviews for early identification of fatty liver disease. In addition, I am a module lead for the Wellcome Trust funded Health Data in practice MRes/PhD programme and I teach the first semester “Health Data in Practice” module.
In my spare time, I like to throw pots (from clay, not on the floor), watch plants in my garden die and I’m thinking about joining an ice-hockey team.
Research
Research Interests:
Health Data in practice
Primary care data
Hypertension
Cardiovascular disease
Fatty liver disease
Machine learning
Publications
Rison SC, Redfern O, Dostal I, Carvalho C, Mathur R, Raisi-Estabragh Z, Robson J. Inequities in hypertension management: observational cross-sectional study in North East London using electronic health records. Br J Gen Pract. 2023 Oct 26;73(736):e798-e806. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0077
Rison SC, Mathur R, Carvalho C, Robson JP. Inequities in hypertension: we can do better... but how? Br J Gen Pract. 2023 Oct 26;73(736):486-487. doi: 10.3399/bjgp23X735261.
Rison SC, Carvalho C, Rull G, Robson J. Investigating hypertension in younger patients. BMJ. 2022 Mar 24;376:e067924. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067924. PMID: 35332032.
Wu R, Rison SC, Raisi-Estabragh Z, Dostal I, Carvalho C, Robson J, Mihaylova B. Gaps in antihypertensive and statin treatments and benefits of optimisation: a modelling study in a 1 million ethnically diverse urban population in UK. BMJ Open. 2021 Dec 30;11(12):e052884. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052884.
Carvalho C, Williams C, Raisi-Estabragh Z, Rison SC, Patel RS, Timmis A, Robson J. Application of a risk stratification tool for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: an observational cross-sectional study in an unselected urban population. Heart. 2021 Jul 12;107(15):1220-1225.