Prof. Frank Sullivan

Frank Sullivan has been an academic GP since 1984 and the Professor of Primary Care Medicine in the University of St. Andrews since 2017.  Until 2024 his clinical practice was in Anstruther. His research interests lie mainly in health informatics and community based trials, covering the spectrum from systematic reviews, record-linkage of electronic health records to decision support and the evaluation of complex interventions.

During the early phase of his career he worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer in the University of Glasgow and had a secondment to work in the Republic of Seychelles.  In 1998 moved to Dundee as chair of R&D in General Practice and Primary Care. From 2014-17 he was the inaugural Gordon F. Cheesborough Research Chair and director of the University of Toronto’s Practice Based Research Network.  He holds honorary chairs in the Universities of Dundee, Galway and Toronto. He was the chair of SAPC HoDs from 2010-12.