Frank Sullivan

Frank Sullivan is the Professor of Primary Care Medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of St. Andrews, UK. He holds honorary professorships at the University of Dundee and University of Toronto, including appointments in the Department of Family & Community Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. As an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) in Ontario, he bridges academic and clinical research.

Research Overview: Sullivan's work spans health informatics, community-based trials, and early cancer detection. His contributions include decision support systems, complex intervention evaluations, and leveraging electronic health records for risk modeling.

Article Trends: Recent publications focus on AI and big data in opioid disorder management, diabetes-hypertension co-morbidity in Canadian primary care, innovative medical education programs like ScotGEM, and lung cancer biomarker trials. These align with his expertise in data science and public health innovation.

Scientific Awards:

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2011)
• Ian Stevenson Prize for Public Engagement (2014)
• Outstanding Contribution to Family Medicine Research (2016)

Grants & Projects: Sullivan leads initiatives such as the LIFTS grant (2025) for tailored academic support and EAGLE (2021-2022) series on golf prescriptions for public health. He also directed the Nodule Evaluation Study (2021) with Oncimmune.