George Davey Smith

Professor George Davey Smith is a prolific British epidemiologist who is named as an author on over one thousand published scientific papers. He has been professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Bristol since 1994, honorary professor of public health at the University of Glasgow since 1996, and visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 1999.

At a 2015 meeting of the UK CFS/ME Collaborative Professor Davey Smith gave a presentation and stated that he was keen to be involved in ME/CFS research as part of the Grand Challenge, a project of the UK CFS/ME Collaborative.

Talks and interviews

• 2015, CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference, Anne Faulkner Memorial Lecture - Speech title: "The bigger picture: big data, genomics, epigenetics and metabolomics"
• 2016, CEO blog: Prof George Davey Smith on the Grand Challenge (see Grand Challenge)
• 2016, BBC Radio - George Davey-Smith
• 2016, CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference - Speech title: States, traits and diagnosed conditions: implications for the design of population-based studies of human health and disease

Online presence

• PubMed
• Twitter
• MRC profile (Medical Research Council)

Learn more

• Wikipedia - George Davey Smith
• 2016, The power and pitfalls of omics part 2: epigenomics, transcriptomics and ME/CFS
• 2016, The Power and Pitfalls of Omics: George Davey Smith’s storming talk at ME/CFS conference (Pt 1 of 2)

See also

• Grand Challenge