Selected Publications

• Harrison Sian E, Watson Eila K, Ward Alison M, Khan Nada F, Turner Daniel, Adams Eike, Forman David, Roche Monica F, and Rose Peter W (2011) Primary health and supportive care needs of long-term cancer survivors: a questionnaire survey. J Clin Oncol, 29(15):2091-8.

• Garcia-Alamino Josep M, Ward Alison M, Alonso-Coello Pablo, Perera Rafael, Bankhead Clare, Fitzmaurice David, and Heneghan Carl J (2010) Self-monitoring and self-management of oral anticoagulation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 4:CD003839.

• Heneghan C, Tyndel S, Bankhead C, Wan Y, Keeling D, Perera R, and Ward A (2010) Optimal loading dose for the initiation of warfarin: a systematic review. BMC Cardiovasc Disord, 10(1):18.

• Khan N F, Ward A M, Watson E, and Rose P W (2010) Consulting and prescribing behaviour for anxiety and depression in long-term survivors of cancer in the UK. Eur J Cancer.

• Wan Y, Heneghan C, Stevens R, McManus R J, Ward A, Perera R, Thompson M, Tarassenko L, and Mant D (2010) Determining which automatic digital blood pressure device performs adequately: a systematic review. J Hum Hypertens.

Alison Ward

Dr Alison Ward is a psychologist with a PhD in general practice and has been the Director of Postgraduate Studies in the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford since 2005.  In this capacity she supervises a program which provides support and training for current postgraduate students as well as running an International Primary Care Research Leadership Programme (The Brisbane Initiative) in Oxford.  Prior to this she was an Associate Professor, Director of Research and of the Primary Health Care Research and Evaluation and Development unit in the Department of General Practice, at the University of Western Australia.

Dr Ward’s current research interests focus on the monitoring of chronic diseases and include projects on the self-monitoring of INR, blood glucose and blood pressure.  She is currently managing two international Individual Patient Data (IPD) Meta-analyses on self-monitoring of INR and blood glucose and is conducting a cohort study examining the role of psychology in the self-monitoring of chronic diseases. In addition she supervises a programme of studies on self-monitoring of chronic diseases and the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and atrial fibrillation. She also works on the psychometric development of measurement scales.

Previously, Dr Ward has worked in Bangladesh and West Sumatra where she supervised Masters of Medical Science students.   Recently she has worked on a mortality audit in Cape Town which found that there is considerable under-reporting of HIV deaths.  She has a Wellcome Trust grant to conduct a cohort study examining pathways to critical care for young children in Cape Town.