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Tim Coleman

Professor of Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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    Queen's Medical Centre
    Nottingham
    NG7 2UH
    UK
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Biography

Tim studied Medicine at Leeds University, qualifying in 1988. He then trained as a GP in Bradford, finishing in 1992 and began working as a primary care researcher in 1993. Initially he worked as a half-time lecturer at the University of Leicester and in 2001 joined the University of Nottingham as a full-time senior lecturer, becoming a Professor in 2011. He works one day each week as a GP in Mapperley, Nottingham.

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

Randomised controlled trials, smoking cessation, nicotine replacement therapy, smoking cessation in pregnancy, health services research, systematic reviews

Teaching Summary

Supervises PhD and Masters' students; teaches on Tobacco Control for the Masters in Public Health and facilitates Communication Skills sessions for undergraduate medical students.

Research Summary

Tim's research is mostly in the field of smoking cessation in primary care and in pregnancy, including the role of nicotine replacement therapy; he also researches ways of preventing relapse to… read more

Selected Publications

  • COLEMAN, T., COOPER, S., THORNTON, J.G., GRAINGE, M.G., WATTS, K., BRITTON, J., LEWIS, S. and FOR THE SNAP TRIAL TEAM,, 2012. A randomized trial of nicotine replacement therapy patches in pregnancy New England Journal of Medicine. 366(9), 22-32
  • FERGUSON, J., DOCHERTY, G., BAULD, L., LEWIS, S., LORGELLY, P., BOYD, K.A., MCEWEN, A, and COLEMAN, T., 2012. Randomised controlled trial of offering different levels of support and no-cost nicotine replacement therapy via an English national telephone quitline: the PORTSSS Trial: British medical Journal British Medical Journal. (In Press.)
  • COLEMAN, T., CHAMBERLAIN, C., COOPER, S. and LEONARDI-BEE, J., 2011. Efficacy and safety of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation in pregnancy: systematic review and meta-analysis Addiction. 106(1), 52-61
  • COLEMAN, T., AGBOOLA, S., LEONARDI-BEE, J., TAYLOR, M., MCEWEN, A. and MCNEILL, A., 2010. Relapse prevention in UK stop smoking services: current practice, systematic reviews of effectiveness and cost effectiveness analysis Health Technology Assessment. 14(49), 1-152, iii-iv doi:10.3310/hta14490
  • UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies - Member
  • Senior Editor, Addiction
  • Cancer Research UK, Population Research Committee - Member
  • NIHR Programmes for Applied Research Committee (ad hoc invitation) - Member
  • NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Scheme, East Midlands Regional Funding Committee- Member
  • NIHR School for Primary Care Research - Member

Current Research

Tim's research is mostly in the field of smoking cessation in primary care and in pregnancy, including the role of nicotine replacement therapy; he also researches ways of preventing relapse to smoking after cessation attempts have been initiated. He is a member of UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, working closely with Nottingham colleagues from the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health and other UK-based smoking cessation researchers. Examples of work are:

  • Smoking, Nicotine and Pregnancy (SNAP)Trial : the world's largest trial of nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy which has recruited 1050 women

Read more about the SNAP trial at http://www.hta.ac.uk/1512

  • Proactive or Reactive Support for Smoking Cessation (PORTSSS): a recently completed a trial with 2591 participants testing offers of proactive support or NRT made via the NHS smoking helpline

Read more about the PORTSSS trial at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19400961

  • NIHR HTA monograph showing relapse prevention treatments to be effective and cost effective

Read more at http://www.hta.ac.uk/execsumm/summ1449.shtml

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He is currently running an NIHR research programme investigating the effectiveness of new methods for supporting pregnant women to help them to stop smoking.

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