Aneez Esmail

GP and Professor of General Practice at the University of Manchester

Clinical practice
He continues to practise as a clinician, at the Robert Darbishire Practice, a social enterprise based in one of the most deprived areas of Manchester. It is the largest practice in Manchester with over 22,000 registered patients. The practice has a turnover of over £2.5 million annually and provides an innovative service in relation to same day access, care of deprived populations and looking after patients with complex health needs. He was commended by the Heath Service Journal, as one of the top 100 Clinical Leaders in the NHS in 2014. He received the GP Lifetime Achievement Award from the publishers of Pulse Magazine in November 2017 (http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-practice/practice-topics/employment/a-champion-of-equality-and-an-inspiration/20035770.article)

Research
As a health services researcher he has published extensively in several areas of public health (racism in medicine, prevention of cot deaths, epidemiology of solvent abuse, preventing paediatric admissions, the evaluation of telemedicine and patient safety). https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=tF2ZuecAAAAJ&hl=en
He was the inaugural Director of the NIHR Patient Safety Translational Centre between 2012-2017. He has raised over £11 million in research grants, £1.4 million in educational grants and over £300,000 in consultancy fees over the last 25 years. His current research interests include work on patient safety in primary care, burnout in physicians and racism in medicine.

National profile
He worked as the Medical Advisor to Dame Janet Smith, the Appeal Court judge who chaired the Shipman Inquiry between 2001-2005. He played a key role in developing the recommendations which resulted in significant changes on reform of the General Medical Council, death certification and investigation, controlled drugs regulation and the regulation and revalidation of doctors.
He is recognised nationally for his research on discrimination in the medical profession. Much of the work that he has carried out in this area has resulted in significant changes in recruitment, selection, monitoring and assessment of the medical profession. This work was recognised internationally with the award of a Harkness Fellowship and Visiting Professorship at Harvard University in 1997. He was offered but declined an OBE for his contribution to primary care and race relations in 2002.

He is an active Trade Unionist and a member of both the Medical Practitioners Union and the University College Union where he is has held national and local executive positions.

Teaching and Management
He continues to teach both undergraduate and postgraduate students and was made a Principal of the Higher Education Academy in 2014. He was a member of the Senior Leadership Team at the University of Manchester between 2006-2014 as Associate Vice-President for Social Responsibility and Equality & Diversity.