Professor Umesh Chauhan

Umesh is also our NIHR Integrated Academic Training (IAT) Programme Lead and a member of the NICE Quality Standards Advisory Committee.

Umesh is Professor of Primary Care at the Mackenzie Clinical Research Institute which is an established clinical research centre based at our Burnley campus. This is an exciting collaboration between the University’s School of Medicine and Dentistry and its NHS partners. The Institute brings clinical research excellence back to Burnley, where clinical research in primary care really began, as it follows in the footsteps of Sir James Mackenzie, a Burnley GP in who is considered as the father of general practice-based research. The Mackenzie Clinical Research Institute aims to develop research expertise and educational capacity to meet the challenges faced by health and social care.

Umesh has extensive personal experience of General Practice and has practised as a GP since 1994 with a sustained commitment to high quality patient centred care in a deprived area of East Lancashire for over 25 years. Umesh has combined his role in delivering face-to-face individual clinical care with efforts to support and promote wider development of general practice and policy- both locally, nationally and internationally. Umesh has developed advanced skills and expertise in several clinical areas which is reflected in his direct involvement in wider health care audits and research (local and nationally) around cardiovascular disease and learning disability, planning of health needs, and the development of local and national services.