Professor Jamie Coleman MBChB, MD, MA (Med Ed), FRCP, FBPharmacolS, FFPM(Hons)

• Honorary Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Education
• Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (2018)
• Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society (2014)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (2014)
• MA (Medical Education), University of Bedfordshire (2008)
• MD, University of Birmingham (2008)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Leadership (2007)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education (2004)
• Membership of Royal College of Physicians (2002)
• MBChB, University of Birmingham (1999)

Jamie Coleman is Honorary Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Education within the School of Medicine in the Institute of Clinical Sciences. He was previously the Deputy Programme Director of the MBChB programme, and continues as the Therapeutics Lead for the BDS Dentistry course, and co-lead for Pharmacogenomics and Stratified Healthcare within the MSc Genomic Medicine Programme.

His main academic responsibilities are as the programme lead for the Postgraduate Masters suite of courses in Education for Health Professionals within the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.

He has a long standing interest in undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare education and has authored a number of highly cited pedagogical research papers and systematic reviews. He maintains a strong interest in educational research and works with colleagues in the School of Medicine and the School of Education in the University on several projects in undergraduate medical education and inter-professional learning. Much of his research interests revolve around elements of prescribing safety and the analysis of routinely collected prescription data from both primary and secondary care.

Jamie has also been instrumental in the establishment of SCRIPT, a suite of e-learning modules to develop and maintain professional knowledge and competence in prescribing and therapeutics. He is also an active clinician working in General Internal Medicine looking after a 36 bedded ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and a large outpatient service looking after non-specific cancer symptoms. He is associate medical director at University Hospitals Birmingham responsible for Medicines Management across four hospital sites.

• MBChB
• BDS
• MPharm
• MSc Genomic Medicine

Jamie has supervised 3 PhD students and one MD student to completion, and currently has one PhD student co-supervised with the School of Pharmacy. He has also supported two students with EdD (Educational Doctorates) with the School of Education.

Jamie has conducted research into adverse drug reactions, medication errors, and other aspects of clinical pharmacology. Work has included being local co-investigator for a large multi-national, multi-centre trial in Hypertension. Much of his current work is on the epidemiology of adverse drug reactions and electronic prescribing. His Doctor of Medicine (MD) research has given him wide ranging experience in systematic reviews, quantitative analysis of large datasets, and data management.

Having been the principal investigator on a 5 year programme of research investigating Patient Safety and Information Technology, he has also been co-PI with Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh on two NIHR funded Programme Grants for Applied Health Research investigating various aspects of electronic prescribing.

Jamie is the training programme director in the West Midlands for Clinical Pharmacology and therapeutics, and for General Internal Medicine Standalone training – supporting the education and training of Postgraduate Doctors in Training at Specialist Registrar level.

He chairs the Specialist Advisory Committee nationally in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Jamie works closely with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and chairs the Pharmacovigilance Expert Advisory Group nationally. He is a member of the Commission of Human Medicines – the licensing body for medicines in the UK and sits on the Expert working groups for Cancer Vaccines and Non-Medical Prescribing.

As previous chairperson for the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, he remains an active member of the EACPT working group in Education. He also supports the work of the education sub-committee and clinical division of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology.