Professor Simon Coulton

About

I specialize in the design, conduct and evaluation of clinical trials, as well as providing experience in epidemiology, clinical risk modeling and quantitative health research methodology.

With a career that encompasses both the NHS and academia, I have played a major role in a large number of national and international evaluations across a variety of clinical areas that have changed the way healthcare is delivered.

My particular interest is in the area of mental health and psychosocial interventions to elicit behavior change with a focus on alcohol and substance use.  My current studies involve a number of large scale randomized controlled trials of interventions for alcohol use across a variety of populations such as adolescents, adults, older people and settings, primary care, emergency departments, community services, schools and criminal justice.  My research is funded from a variety of sources including the National Institute of Health Research, Medical Research Council and European Union.

In addition I have developed and evaluated interventions in other clinical areas including self-management of heart failure, pharmacological management in dementia, management of back pain in primary care and the development of risk stratification models for the early diagnosis and management of inpatients.