Matt Martin and Ralph Akyea (University of Nottingham, Primary Care Stratified Medicine Research Group) have recently received £50k NIHR School for Primary Care Research funding for Development and external validation of a risk prediction model for asthma attacks in primary care: a retrospective cohort study. Matt is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust with research interests in the phenotyping of asthma, asthma attacks and cough, particularly in developing personalised medicine approaches for prevention and treatment of asthma attacks.
“I will be working on this grant with my Co-PI Ralph who is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Nottingham and early career epidemiologist with a postgraduate master’s degree in public health and research doctorate in Primary Care. Ralph’s interests include the use of coded data in electronic health records to stratify and improve care in primary care. We will collaborate with experts from other centres including Holly (!) and Prof Kontopantelis from the University of Manchester. We aim to develop and validate (internally and externally) an asthma attack prediction model to estimate the 12-month risk of an asthma attack (using CPRD GOLD and Aurum and HES data) using supervised machine learning approaches guided by expert and patient knowledge. We will obviously be very keen to hear about the results of Holly’s work in this area and to discuss further with anyone else working in a similar area once we get underway!” – Matt Martin
