Fellow: Guthrie
Elected: 2020
Discipline: Clinical Sciences
Professor Bruce Guthrie
Professor of General Practice, University of Edinburgh
Bruce Guthrie is an academic GP who researches healthcare quality and safety, particularly in relation to multimorbidity, polypharmacy and prescribing. His research spans the spectrum from epidemiology, through the development and evaluation of complex interventions, to working with health and social care to implement and evaluate improvement interventions at scale. To facilitate translation, he collaborates with the NHS in much of his research and has served on a number of national committees including chairing the guideline development group of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Multimorbidity clinical guideline.