Trevor A. Sheldon is a British academic and University administrator who is a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of York and Dean of Hull York Medical School. He has held academic posts at the

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, the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

, the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_labe ...

and Kingston University.

Education

Trevor Sheldon studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, (including a one year fellowship in community medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York). He was awarded a

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degree from the

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in Economics, an MSc in Medical Statistics followed by a DSc from the Faculty of Medicine,

Career

Trevor Sheldon joined Queen Mary University of London as Professor of Health Services Research in July 2020. Between October 2007 and April 2012 he was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the

. He was Professor of Health Services Research and Policy in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York and Research Mentor at the Bradford Institute of Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary. He also chairs the board of the York Health Economics Consortium. He was the Dean of the Hull York Medical School from 2013-2017.

Research

His publications and research specialities include the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of

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and public health interventions, including 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: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-5913 He joined the University of York in 1992, first as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Economics; a Professor from 1996, he became founding Director of the

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(NHS)

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. 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.

Awards and honours

Sheldon was elected Fellow (FMedSci) of the

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, a member of the Society for Social Medicine and the US Academy Health.

References

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