Trevor Sheldon

Professor Trevor Sheldon is a British medical academic and University administrator who since October 2007 has been the Deputy-Vice-Chancellor of the University of York.

He has an MSc from the University of London and an MSc followed by a DSc from the University of Leicester in economics and medical statistics. He had academic posts at Kingston University, the University of Leicester and the University of Leeds.

His publications and research specialities include the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of healthcare and public health interventions (including complementary and alternative medicine; health care quality and the measurement and management of health care performance; policy development and evaluation; resource allocation in health care and the public sector; research methods including evidence synthesis and experimental evaluation of complex interventions.

He joined the University in 1992, first as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Economics; a Professor from 1996, he became Director of the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. In 1999 he became Head of the University's Department of Health Sciences and deputy Chair of the Commissioning Board for Service Delivery and Organisation of the NHS research programme. He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor in 2004 with the portfolio of Teaching, Learning and Information.

He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science, a member of the Society for Social Medicine and the US Academy Health.

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