E-Health Director

ANDREW MORRIS is the Professor of Medicine and Director of the Biomedical Research Institute at the University of Dundee.  He leads a translational research team that uses informatics to study the epidemiological and molecular aetiological basis of diabetes and its complications.  He also has a major interest in the use of eHealth to support quality improvement and inter-disciplinary patient care across geographical boundaries.  

He leads the DARTS research study, has published over 200 original papers and has attracted over £20million in peer reviewed grant funding.  He is the principal investigator on many clinical studies of new therapeutics of diabetes as well as genetics of diabetes, including the Wellcome Trust United Kingdom Case Control Collection for Type 2 Diabetes that has recruited  20,000 individuals and Generation Scotland, a study of the genetic health in 50,000 Scots.  

He was awarded the RD Lawrence Award by Diabetes UK in 2003, the Saltire Society Scottish Science Award in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.  

He was appointed by the Minister for Health and Community Care to be Lead Clinician for diabetes in Scotland (2002-2006) and led a national programme of quality improvement in diabetes care.  He is a Governor of the Health Foundation.  Since 2010 has been Convener of the Scottish Academic Health Science Collaboration.  

Please click on the link below to view Prof Morris' declaration of interests for details of business and other interests. All members of Tayside NHS Board are expected to comply with the Members Code of Conduct and the Standards of Business Conduct for NHS staff. This is detailed in the NHS Tayside Code of Corporate Governance.

This page was last updated : June 2011

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