Professor Nigel Stocks

Biography/ Background

Professor Stocks is Head of the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Adelaide. He was recently awarded, in a national NHMRC competitive process, a Senior Principal Research PHCRED Fellowship (2007-2010) to devout more time to research. He is Director of the Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development Program (PHCRED Program) and Director of the RACGP Australian Sentinel Practice REsearch Network (ASPREN).

Prof. Stocks has a broad range of research skills and has experience working as a general practitioner and academic in the UK. He has been a chief investigator or collaborator in several studies across a range of methodologies and topics. He has extensive experience in the administration of questionnaires to health care practitioners and minimising non-response. His current research interests include assessment and management of ischemic heart disease in general practice, acute respiratory disease in adults, eye disease in the elderly, health services research, methodological issues in general practice research and mental health problems in the community. He has successfully undertaken eye health research in remote Indigenous communities and his research is supported by the NHMRC and several smaller peer reviewed grants. His work has been published in leading international and national peer reviewed journals. He supervises several postgraduate students and has interstate and overseas collaborators across all areas of his research. He has worked effectively with Aboriginal communities and organisations within South Australia and spent several years working in a community health centre serving a socio-economically deprived area of Adelaide.

He is currently on the RACGP standing committee for research and the Australian Family Physician Editorial board. He reviews grants for the NHMRC and was a member of the 2005 and 2006 NHMRC General Practice and Health Sciences Grant Review Panels. He reviews regularly for the Medical Journal of Australia, Australian Family Physician, British Medical Journal, Family Practice and BMC Medical. In his role as Director of the PHCRED Program at the University of Adelaide he has established close links with Divisions of General Practice, Community Health Centres and consumer organisations. As Director of ASPREN he coordinates a network of 90 GPs around Australia that provide data for infectious disease surveillance and collects morbidity data for general practice research. He is a Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and a part-time general practitioner in the Adelaide Hills.

Publications

Williamson MK, Pirkis J, Pfaff J , Tyson O, Sim M, Kerse N, Lautenschlager NT, Stocks NP, Almeida OP. Recruiting and retaining GPs and patients in intervention studies: The DEPS-GP project as a case study. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2007, 7:42.

Pearce R, Laurence CO, Black LE, Stocks N. The challenges of teaching in a general practice setting. Med J Aust 2007; 187:129-132.

Benson J, Wilson A, Stocks N, Moulding N. Muscle Pain as an indicator of Vitamin D Deficiency in an urban Australian Aboriginal population. MJA 2006; 185 (2): 76-79. [IF: 2.127; times cited: 0]

Mac Lennan AH, Henderson VW, Paine B, Mathias J, Ramsey E, Ryan P, Stocks NP, Taylor AW. Hormone Therapy, Timing of Initiation, and Cognition in Women Aged over 60 years – The REMEMBER Pilot Study. Menopause 2006; 13(1):28-36). [IF: 2.99; times cited 4]

Melbye H, Stocks N. Point-of-care testing for C-reactive protein – a new path for Australian GPs? Australian Family Physician 2006; 35 (7):513-517. [medline listed]

Fielding J, Clothier H, Stocks N, Kelly H. What factors facilitated a GP survey response rate? Australian Family Physician 2005; 34(10) 895-896. [medline listed]

Stocks NP, Allan J, Mansfield P. Management of hyperlipidemia in general practice. Australian Family Physician 2005; 34(6) 447-452. [medline listed]

Allan JA, Schaefer D, Stocks NP. Creating an improved learning needs survey. Australian Family Physician. 2005;34;84-86. [medline listed]

Stocks NP, Branuck-Mayer A, Somerset M, Gunnell D. "Binners, fillers and filers – A qualitative study of GPs who donâ€^TMt return postal questionnaires" European Journal of General Practice. 2004;10(4):146-151. [medline listed]

Stocks NP, Turnidge J, Crockett A. Lower respiratory tract infections and community acquired pneumonia in adults. Australian Family Physician 2004; 33:297-301. [medline listed]

Paine BJ, Stocks NP, Ramsay EN, Ryan P, Mac Lennan AH for the Wisdom Australia Research team. Use and perception of Hormone Therapy following media reports of the Womenâ€^TMs Health Initiative: survey of Australian WISDOM participants. Climacteric 2004;7:143-152 [IF: 1.932; times cited: 3]

Stocks NP, Ryan P, McElroy H, Allen J. Statin prescribing in Australia, socio-economic and gender differences: a cross sectional study. MJA 2004;180:229-231. [IF: 2.127; times cited: 3]

Stocks NP, McElroy H, Sayer G, Duszynski K. Acute bronchitis in Australian general practice: A prescription too far? Australian Family Physician 2004; 33:91-93. [medline listed]

Jones A, Burgess TA, Farmer EA, Fuller J, Stocks NP, Taylor JE, Waters R. Building Research Capacity: An Exploratory Model of GPsâ€^TM Training Needs and Barriers to Research Involvement. Australian Family Physician 2003;32(11):957-960. [medline listed]

Gunnell D, Bennewith O, Peters P, Stocks NP, Sharp D. Do patients who self-harm consult their general practitioner soon after hospital discharge? A cohort study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2002; 37:599-602. [IF: n/a; times cited: 5]

Stocks NP, Fahey T. Labelling of acute respiratory illness: evidence of between practitioner variation in the UK. Family Practice 2002; 19:375-377. [IF:1.296; times cited:6]

Stocks N, Fahey T. Treatment of acute bronchitis by general practitioners in the UK: Results of a cross-sectional postal survey. Australian Family Physician 2002; 31(7):676-679 [medline listed]

Stocks N, Patel R, Sparrow J, Davey-Smith G. Prevalence of cataract in the Speedwell Cardiovascular Study: A cross sectional survey of men aged 65-83. Eye 2002, May 16(3): 275-80. [IF:1.496; times cited:2].

Bennewith O, Stocks N, Gunnell D, Peters P, Evans M, Sharp D. A cluster randomised controlled trial of a general practice based intervention for the prevention of repeat deliberate self-harm. BMJ 2002;324:1254-1257. [IF: 9.052; times cited:15]

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007