Martin Roland
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Education
Overview
Biography
Martin Roland has a first-class honours degree and a doctorate from Oxford University, with professional qualifications by examination in general practice, specialist medicine and public health medicine.
His research career extends over 25 years, principally covering health services and policy-related research. His reputation relates mainly to three fields of research: back pain, the subject of his doctorate; the interface between primary and secondary care; and methods of measuring and improving quality of primary care. He has more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
In addition to being special advisor to RAND Europe, he currently holds the chair in Health Services Research at the University of Cambridge, where he moved in April 2009 after 16 years as professor of general practice at the University of Manchester.
Throughout his career, he has maintained a part-time clinical practice as a general practitioner. He was appointed CBE in 2003 for Services to Medicine.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- DISMEVAL: methods of evaluating disease management programmes across Europe
- Evaluation of the Department of Health Integrated Care pilots
- Evaluation of financial incentives to improve quality of care in UK general practice
Selected Publications
Campbell SM, Reeves D, Kontopantelis E, Sibbald B, Roland M, "Effects of Pay-for-Performance on the Quality of Primary Care in England," New England Journal of Medicine, 361:368-78, 2009
Doran T, Fullwood C, Reeves D, Gravelle H, Roland M, "Exclusion of Patients from Pay-for-Performance Targets by English Physicians," New England Journal of Medicine, 359, 2008
Roland M, "Lessons from the U.K," New England Journal of Medicine, 359, 2008
Campbell S, Reeves D, Kontopantelis E, Middleton E, Sibbald B, Roland M, "Quality of Primary Care in England with the Introduction of Pay for Performance," New England Journal of Medicine, 357(181), 2007
Higashi T, Wenger NS, Adams JL, Fung C, Roland M, McGlynn EA, Reeves D, Asch SM, Kerr EA, Shekelle PG, "Relationship between Number of Medical Conditions and Quality of Care," New England Journal of Medicine, 356(2496), 2007
Doran T, Fullwood C, Gravelle H, Reeves D, Kontopantelis E, Hiroeh U, Roland M, "Pay-for-Performance Programs in Family Practices in the United Kingdom," New England Journal of Medicine, 355(375), 2006
Roland M, "Linking Physicians' Pay to the Quality of Care -- A Major Experiment in the United Kingdom," New England Journal of Medicine, 351(1448), 2004
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