John Gordon Williams CBE is a British health services researcher and clinical academic gastroenterologist. He led the establishment of the Postgraduate Medical School in Swansea, created and developed the Health Informatics Unit at the Royal College of Physicians, and was the founding president of WAGE, the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy[1] Williams was appointed a CBE for services to medicine in 2014.[2]
Naval career
editHe trained in medicine at Cambridge University and St Thomas' Hospital in London, qualifying in 1970. His early career was spent in the Royal Navy, where he trained as a gastroenterologist in naval hospitals in Plymouth and Portsmouth, and in London. With Sir Godfrey Milton-Thompson, Roy Pounder and George Misiewicz he evaluated the first H2-receptor antagonists to be given to man,[3] refining new techniques to assess acid secretion,[4][5] and demonstrating efficacy in duodenal ulcer disease, a common cause of significant morbidity in sailors.[6] In 1982, he led a Surgical Support Team in the campaign to retake the Falklands Islands, overseeing the conversion of SS Canberra to take casualties, and driving the development and implementation of a simple resuscitation regime for mass casualties that was used successfully ashore.[7] As Professor of Naval Medicine from 1984 to 1988 he oversaw the postgraduate training of naval physicians and research in the medical specialties.
Swansea University
editHe retired from the Royal Navy in 1988 and was appointed to Swansea University, as the founding director of the School of Postgraduate Studies in Medical and Healthcare, the precursor of Swansea University Medical School.[1] He pioneered the development of health services and informatics research, leading to the recognition of Swansea as a founding Centre of Excellence in the Farr Institute.[8] From 2002 to 2007 he was Director of the Wales Office of Research and Development, a post in which he created the Clinical Research Collaboration Cymru.[9] As a clinical and health services researcher he has led major trials of treatment[10] and service delivery,[11][12] and developed patient focused approaches to the measurement of quality of life and outcome,[13][14][15] and the use of routine data for research.[16] These studies have informed developments in service delivery in gastroenterology and in 2009 he was invited to deliver the Endoscopy Foundation Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the British Society of Gastroenterology.[17] As Director of the Health Informatics Unit at the Royal College of Physicians he has led the development of national standards for the structure and content of patient records and communications,[18] to improve the quality of record keeping and data returns.[19] These standards are now embodied in national policy, and will be fundamental to the success a paperless NHS,[20] and the introduction of precision medicine, by ensuring that sufficiently detailed data can be recorded in structured form in patient records.
Distinctions
editCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) – for services to Medicine (2014)
References
edit- ^ a b "Professor John Williams". Swansea.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ "New Year's Honours 2014: CSV". Government of the United Kingdom. 20 February 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ Milton-Thompson GJ, Williams JG, Jenkins DJ, Misiewicz JJ (3 February 2017). "Inhibition of nocturnal acid secretion in duodenal ulcer by one oral dose of metiamide". Lancet. 1 (7860): 693–4. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(74)92901-8. PMID 4132419.
- ^ Pounder R (1975). "24-Hour Control of Intragastric Acidity by Cimetidine in Duodenal-Ulcer Patients". The Lancet. 306 (7944): 1069–1072. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(75)90434-1. PMID 53554. S2CID 5684691.
- ^ Pounder RE, Williams JG, Russell RC, Milton-Thompson GJ, Misiewicz JJ (3 February 2017). "Inhibition of food-stimulated gastric acid secretion by cimetidine". Gut. 17 (3): 161–8. doi:10.1136/gut.17.3.161. PMC 1411161. PMID 5342.
- ^ R. E. Pounder; J. G. Williams; G. J. Milton-Thompson; J. J. Misiewicz (10 May 1975). "Relief of Duodenal Ulcer Symptoms By Oral Metiamide". The British Medical Journal. 2 (5966): 307–309. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5966.307. JSTOR 20472984. PMC 1681913. PMID 236804.
- ^ Williams, J. G.; Riley, T. R.; Moody, R. A. (5 March 1983). "Resuscitation experience in the Falkland Islands campaign". British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Ed.). 286 (6367). The BMJ: 775–777. doi:10.1136/bmj.286.6367.775. PMC 1547002. PMID 6402248. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ "The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research". Farrinstitute.org. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ "Professor John Williams CBE". Healthandcareresearch.gov.wales. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ Williams, J. G.; Alam, M. F.; Alrubaiy, L.; Arnott, I.; Clement, C.; Cohen, D.; Gordon, J. N.; Hawthorne, A. B.; Hilton, M.; Hutchings, H. A.; Jawhari, A. U.; Longo, M.; Mansfield, J.; Morgan, J. M.; Rapport, F.; Seagrove, A. C.; Sebastian, S.; Shaw, I.; Travis, S. P.; Watkins, A. (2016). "Infliximab versus ciclosporin for steroid-resistant acute severe ulcerative colitis (CONSTRUCT): a mixed methods, open-label, pragmatic randomised trial". The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 1 (1): 15–24. doi:10.1016/S2468-1253(16)30003-6. PMC 4994668. PMID 27595142.
- ^ Williams, J.; Russell, I.; Durai, D.; Cheung, W. Y.; Farrin, A.; Bloor, K.; Coulton, S.; Richardson, G. (10 February 2009). "Effectiveness of nurse delivered endoscopy: findings from randomised multi-institution nurse endoscopy trial (MINuET)". BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.). 338. The BMJ: b231. doi:10.1136/bmj.b231. PMC 2643440. PMID 19208714. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ Williams, J. G.; Cheung, W. Y.; Russell, I. T.; Cohen, D. R.; Longo, M.; Lervy, B. (26 February 2000). "Open access follow up for inflammatory bowel disease: pragmatic randomised trial and cost effectiveness study". BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.). 320 (7234). The BMJ: 544–548. doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7234.544. PMC 27297. PMID 10688560. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ Upton P, Maddocks A, Eiser C, Barnes PM, Williams J (3 February 2017). "Development of a measure of the health-related quality of life of children in public care". Child: Care, Health and Development. 31 (4): 409–15. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.2005.00520.x. PMID 15948877.
- ^ Hutchings HA, Cheung WY, Alrubaiy L, Durai D, Russell IT, Williams JG (3 February 2017). "Development and validation of the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Satisfaction Questionnaire (GESQ)". Endoscopy. 47 (12): 1137–43. doi:10.1055/s-0034-1392547. PMID 26349066.
- ^ Hutchings HA, Cheung WY, Russell IT, Durai D, Alrubaiy L, Williams JG (3 February 2017). "Psychometric development of the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Questionnaire (GSRQ) demonstrated good validity" (PDF). J Clin Epidemiol. 68 (10): 1176–83. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.03.019. PMID 25922278.
- ^ Williams JG, Cheung WY, Cohen DR, Hutchings HA, Longo MF, Russell IT (3 February 2017). "Can randomised trials rely on existing electronic data? A feasibility study to explore the value of routine data in health technology assessment". Health Technol Assess. 7 (26): iii, v–x, 1–117. doi:10.3310/hta7260. PMID 14499049.
- ^ "A1181-BSG Annual meeting Programme v3.indd" (PDF). Bsg.org.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ "Standards for the Clinical Structure and Content of Patient Records – Academy of Medical Royal Colleges". Aomrc.org.uk. 28 July 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ Mann R, Williams J (3 February 2017). "Standards in medical record keeping". Clin Med (Lond). 3 (4): 329–32. doi:10.7861/clinmedicine.3-4-329. PMC 5351947. PMID 12938746.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
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