Smith, Blair H - University of Dundee

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Blair is an academic general practitioner, currently also practising clinically as a Consultant in Pain Medicine, Ninewells Hospital. Graduating at the Universities of Glasgow (MBChB, 1987) and Aberdeen (MEd Distinction 1998; MD 2000), he held an NHS Primary Care Career Scientist Award (2000 to 2005) and was Professor Primary Care Medicine at the University of Aberdeen until 2011. His research on chronic pain and neuropathic pain has been published widely, specifically studying the epidemiology, primary care management and self-management. He is a Chief Investigator on Generation Scotland, a major programme for studying genetics and health, with over 30,000 volunteer participants. He is now actively exploring the opportunities that this and other collaborations bring to researching the biological mechanisms of chronic pain, from the laboratory to the community. He has established the Chronic Pain Research Group at the University of Dundee, based in the Division of Population Health Sciences. He is Vice Chair of the International Association for the Study of Pain Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group (NeuPSIG). He was formerly Treasurer of the Society for Academic Primary Care, and sat on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of General Practice, both from 1997 to 2007. He chaired the NHS Scotland / SGHD Chronic Pain Steering Group until June 2011, and still chairs its Research Subgroup and the Scottish Pain Research Community (SPaRC). He was appointed to his current post in August 2011. Blair was appointed on 1 May 2014 to the post of Lead Clinician for Chronic Pain working with the Scottish Government. He was also appointed in 2014 to the board of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

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Wessel J et al (206 authors, Smith BH 178th author). Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility. Nature Communications (in press). Cameron PA, Smith BH, Schofield P. Health Care Professionals' Accounts of Chronic Pain Management for Older Adults. Journal of Pain and Rehabilitation (in press). Ryan CG, Wilson G, Dismore L, Schofield P, Holey L, Harland N, Smith BH, Jones D, Clarke A, McNamee P, Martin DJ. FLO’s Story: the development of a Facebook Learning Object for health and social care students about persistent pain in older people. Pain and Rehabilitation (in press). Kamerman PR, Wadley AL, Davis K, Hietaharju A, Jain P, Kopf A, Meyer A-C, Raja S, Rice ASC, Smith BH, Treede R-D, Wiffen PJ. WHO essential medicines lists: where are the drugs to treat neuropathic pain? Pain (in press). Clarke T-K et al (23 authors). Common polygenic risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is associated with cognitive ability in the general population. Molecular Psychiatry (in press). Smith BH. My Personal Diagnostic Delay. “Physician, prevent thyself.” [Essay]. British Journal of General Practice (in press). Gilbert S, Holdsworth LK, Smith BH, Gunn G. The Scottish Model for Chronic Pain Management Services. British Journal of Healthcare Management (in press). Finnerup NB, Attal N, Haroutounian S, McNicol E, Baron R, Dworkin RH, Gilron I, Haanpaa M, Hansson P, Jensen TS, Kamerman PR, Lund K, Moore A, Raja SN, Rice ASC, Rowbotham M, Sena E, Siddall P, Smith BH, Wallace M. Pharmacotherapy for neuropathic pain in adults: systematic review, meta-analysis and NeuPSIG recommendations. Lancet Neurology 2015 (EPub) doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(14)70251-0 Fitzgerald TW et al (265 authors, Smith BH 217th author). Large-scale discovery of novel genetic causes of developmental disorders. Nature 2014 doi:10.1038/nature14135 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14135.html#contrib-auth Macfarlane GJ, Beasley M, Jones G, Smith BH, Macfarlane T. Can surveys which are large but conducted on highly selected populations, provide valid information on the descriptive epidemiology and associations of common health conditions? An analysis of UK Biobank data on pain. British Journal of Pain 2015 1-10 doi 10.1177/2049463715569806. Treede R-D, Rief W, Barke A, Aziz Q, Bennett M, Benoliel R, Cohen M, Evers S, Finnerup NB, First M, Giamberdino MA, Kaasa S, Kosek E, Lavand’homme P, Nicholas M, Perrot S, Scholz J, Schug S, Smith BH, Svensson P, Vlaeyen JWS, Wang S-J. A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11 [Topical Review]. Pain (in press) King D, Jones W, Crow Y, Dominiczak A, Foster N, Gaunt T, Harris, J, Hellens S, Homfray T, Innes J, Jones E, Joss S, Kulkarni A, Mansour S, Morris AM, Porteous DJ, Shahib H, Smith BH, Tatton-Brown K, Tolmie J, Trzasowski M, Vasudevan P, Wakeling E, Wright M, Plomin R, Timpson N, Hurles M, the Deciphering Developmental Disorders Study. Mosaic structural variation in children with developmental disorders. Human Molecular Genetics (in press). Taylor AE et al (64 authors, Smith BH 59th author). Stratification by smoking status reveals a direct association of CHRNA5-A3-B4 genotype with body mass index in never smokers. PLoS Genetics 2014 10 :e1004799. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004799. van Hecke, O, Torrance, N, Cochrane, L, Cavanagh, J, Donnan, PT, Padmanabhan, S, Porteous, DJ, Hocking, L & Smith, BH 2014, 'Does a history of depression actually mediate smoking-related pain?: findings from a cross-sectional general population-based study' European Journal of Pain, vol 18, no. 9, pp. 1223-1230. Torrance, N, Lawson, KD, Afolabi, E, Bennett, MI, Serpell, MG, Dunn, KM & Smith, BH 2014, 'Estimating the burden of disease in chronic pain with and without neuropathic characteristics: does the choice between the EQ-5D and SF-6D matter?' PAIN, vol 155, no. 10, pp. 1996-2004. Rietveld, CA, Esko, T, Davies, G, Pers, TH, Turley, P, Benyamin, B, Chabris, CF, Emilsson, V, Johnson, AD, Lee, JJ,Leeuw, CD, Marioni, RE, Medland, SE, Miller, MB, Rostapshova, O, van der Lee, SJ, Vinkhuyzen, AAE, Amin, N, Conley, D, Derringer, J, van Duijn, CM, Fehrmann, R, Franke, L, Glaeser, EL, Hansell, NK, Hayward, C, Iacono, WG, Ibrahim- Verbaas, C, Jaddoe, V, Karjalainen, J, Laibson, D, Lichtenstein, P, Liewald, DC, Magnusson, PKE, Martin, NG, McGue, M, McMahon, G, Pedersen, NL, Pinker, S, Porteous, DJ, Posthuma, D, Rivadeneira, F, Smith, BH, Starr, JM, Tiemeier,H, Timpson, NJ, Trzaskowski, M, Uitterlinden, AG, Verhulst, FC, Ward, ME, Wright, MJ, Davey Smith, G, Deary, IJ, Johannesson, M, Plomin, R, Visscher, PM, Benjamin, DJ, Cesarini, D & Koellinger, PD 2014, 'Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 111, no. 38, pp. 13790-13794. Clarke, A, Martin, D, Jones, D, Schofield, P, Anthony, G, McNamee, P, Gray, D & Smith, BH 2014, '"I try and smile, I try and be cheery, I try not to be pushy. I try to say 'I'm here for help' but I leave feeling… worried": a qualitative study of perceptions of interactions with health professionals by community-based older adults with chronic pain' PLoS ONE, vol 9, no. 9, e105450. van Hecke, O, Austin, SK, Khan, RA, Smith, BH & Torrance, N 2014, 'Corrigendum to "Neuropathic pain in the general population: a systematic review of epidemiological studies": [PAIN? 155(4) pp. 654-662 (2014)] (DOI:10.1016/j.pain.2013.11.013)' PAIN, vol 155, no. 9, pp. 1907. Loth, DW, Artigas, MS, Gharib, SA, Wain, LV, Franceschini, N, Koch, B, Pottinger, TD, Smith, AV, Duan, Q, Oldmeadow, C, Lee, MK, Strachan, DP, James, AL, Huffman, JE, Vitart, V, Ramasamy, A, Wareham, NJ, Kaprio, J, Wang, X-Q, Trochet, H, K?h?nen, M, Flexeder, C, Albrecht, E, Lopez, LM, de Jong, K, Thyagarajan, B, Alves, AC, Enroth, S, Omenaas, E, Joshi, PK, Fall, T, Vi?uela, A, Launer, LJ, Loehr, LR, Fornage, M, Li, G, Wilk, JB, Tang, W, Manichaikul, A, Lahousse, L, Harris, TB, North, KE, Rudnicka, AR, Hui, J, Gu, X, Lumley, T, Wright, AF, Hastie, ND, Campbell, S, Kumar, R, Pin, I, Scott, RA, Pietil?inen, KH, Surakka, I, Liu, Y, Holliday, EG, Schulz, H, Heinrich, J, Davies, G, Vonk, JM, Wojczynski, M, Pouta, A, Johansson, A, Wild, SH, Ingelsson, E, Rivadeneira, F, V?lzke, H, Hysi, PG, Eiriksdottir, G, Morrison, AC, Rotter, JI, Gao, W, Postma, DS, White, WB, Rich, SS, Hofman, A, Aspelund, T, Couper, D, Smith, LJ, Psaty, BM, Lohman, K, Burchard, EG, Uitterlinden, AG, Garcia, M, Joubert, BR, McArdle, WL, Musk, AB, Hansel, N, Heckbert, SR, Zgaga, L, van Meurs, JBJ, Navarro, P, Rudan, I, Oh, Y-M, Redline, S, Jarvis, DL, Zhao, JH, Rantanen, T, O'Connor, GT, Ripatti, S, Scott, RJ, Karrasch, S, Grallert, H, Gaddis, NC, Starr, JM, Wijmenga, C, Minster, RL, Lederer, DJ, Pekkanen, J, Gyllensten, U, Campbell, H, Morris, AP, Gl?ser, S, Hammond, CJ, Burkart, KM, Beilby, J, Kritchevsky, SB, Gudnason, V, Hancock, DB, Williams, OD, Polasek, O, Zemunik, T, Kolcic, I, Petrini, MF, Wjst, M, Kim, WJ, Porteous, DJ, Generation Scotland, Smith, BH, Viljanen, A, Heli?vaara, M, Attia, JR, Sayers, I, Hampel, R, Gieger, C, Deary, IJ, Boezen, HM, Newman, A, Jarvelin, M-R, Wilson, JF, Lind, L, Stricker, BH, Teumer, A, Spector, TD, Melén, E, Peters, MJ, Lange, LA, Barr, RG, Bracke, KR, Verhamme, FM, Sung, J, Hiemstra, PS, Cassano, PA, Sood, A, Hayward, C, Dupuis, J, Hall, IP, Brusselle, GG, Tobin, MD & London, SJ 2014, 'Genome-wide association analysis identifies six new loci associated with forced vital capacity' Nature Genetics, vol 46, no. 7, pp. 669-677. Norsworthy, PJ, Vandrovcova, J, Thomas, ERA, Campbell, A, Kerr, SM, Biggs, J, Game, L, Soutar, AK, Smith, BH, Dominiczak, AF, Porteous, DJ, Morris, AD, Generation Scotland & Aitman, TJ 2014, 'Targeted genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia using next generation sequencing: a population-based study' BMC Medical Genetics, vol 15, 70. van Hecke, O, Austin, SK, Khan, RA, Smith, BH & Torrance, N 2014, 'Neuropathic pain in the general population: a systematic review of epidemiological studies' PAIN, vol 155, no. 4, pp. 654-662. Meng, W, Deshmukh, HA, van Zuydam, NR, Liu, Y, Donnelly, LA, Zhou, K, Morris, AD, Colhoun, HM, Palmer, CNA, Smith, BH, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 (WTCCC2) & Surrogate Markers for Micro- and Macro-Vascular Hard Endpoints for Innovative Diabetes Tools (SUMMIT) Study Group 2014, 'A genome-wide association study suggests an association of Chr8p21.3 (GFRA2) with diabetic neuropathic pain' European Journal of Pain. Hart, OR, Uden, RM, McMullan, JE, Ritchie, MS, Williams, TD & Smith, BH 2014, 'A study of National Health Service management of chronic osteoarthritis and low back pain' Primary Health Care Research and Development. Ruscitto, A, Smith, BH & Guthrie, B 2014, 'Changes in opioid and other analgesic use 1995-2010: repeated crosssectional analysis of dispensed prescribing for a large geographical population in Scotland' European Journal of Pain. Smith, BH, Hardman, JD, Stein, A, Colvin, L & SIGN Chronic Pain Guideline Development Group 2014, 'Managing chronic pain in the non-specialist setting: a new SIGN guideline' British Journal of General Practice, vol 64, no. 624, pp. e462-e464.