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Dr. Laura Hughes-Mccormack is a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology (Mental Health & Wellbeing) at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on health outcomes and disparities among individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. She leads projects examining mortality rates, healthcare access, and comorbidity patterns in these populations through large-scale record linkage studies.
Key grants include the Baily Thomas Charitable Fund-supported study on primary healthcare complexities for people with intellectual disabilities and Scottish Government-funded work via the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory. She co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles, with recent work addressing multimorbidity indices in autism and mortality trends in intellectual disability cohorts.
Her research highlights systemic healthcare inequities, advocating for policy changes to improve health monitoring and service provision. Dr. Hughes-Mccormack collaborates nationally on epidemiological studies, contributing to evidence-based interventions for vulnerable patient groups.
