Lunchtime Seminar: Prof David Osborn

Seminar Focus

The PRIMROSE project has recently been completed after a five year programme of research containing three related work packages. The evidence from each work package came together to finalise a service for reducing cardiovascular disease risk in people with severe mental illnesses in primary care. The results from a cluster randomised controlled trial to test the cost-effectiveness of the service have recently been published in The Lancet, and Prof David Osborn will present these findings along with selection of studies from large GP databases in the UK which explore cardiovascular disease and medication effects in patients with severe mental illness. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/primrose

Prof David Osborn

David is a Professor in psychiatric epidemiology at UCL. He trained at both Cambridge University and UCL. He works clinically as a consultant psychiatrist in a Crisis Team. His main academic expertise is the interface between physical and mental health. Over the last 15 years he has published a wide range of research relating to cardiovascular disease in people with severe mental illness. He has evaluated interventions to improve screening and management of cardiovascular risk. Much of his

currently funded research focuses on large routine clinical databases deriving from general practices and trials. His work on cardiovascular disease has been cited in guidelines across the World and has fed into various policies to improve physical health care for people with poor mental health.