Dr Anna De Simoni, MBBS PhD FHEA MRCGP
Clinical Reader in Primary Care Research
Email: a.desimoni@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: 0207 882 2520
Profile
I am an academic GP specialising in improving self-management and adherence to medications in patients with long-term conditions. I co-lead the Centre for Primary Care.
I combine basic science, clinical and applied research, with training including a PhD in Neurophysiology in neural networks (Milan), an EU-funded Individual Marie Curie post-doctoral Fellowship (UCL), a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship at University of Cambridge, and a NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship award at QMUL.
I am leading AD-HOC, a NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research (PGfAR) to carry out an interdisciplinary programme, combining network science, big data analytics and computational social science with industry and charity partners, to examine and theorise the relationship between online peer support and patient health outcomes, and evaluate health impacts of digital social interventions in primary care.
I utilise systematic reviews, Patient Involvement, qualitative and quantitative methodologies to evaluate digital and social interventions to improve self-management and adherence to medications in long-term conditions. I use multidisciplinary approaches that include network science.
I sit in the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR) Central Management Committee, and co-lead the AUKCAR Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) group, and was a member of the London NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Committee between 2020 and 2024.
I provide supervision to undergraduate (SSC) and postgraduate students (MSc, PhD, postdoc).
My clinical work includes in-hours GP, urgent A&E and GP care in Out of Hours settings.