Dr Miriam Santer MBBChir, MRCGP, PhD
Associate Professor in Primary Care Research
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Dr Miriam Santer is Associate Professor in Primary Care Research within Medicine at the University of Southampton and a GP at Denmark Road Medical Centre in Bournemouth.
GPs deal with a wide range of problems but often face gaps in the evidence-base on how to manage these. I aim to address some of these gaps
Dr Santer recently completed a NIHR post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Southampton. She carried out work exploring families’ experiences of caring for childhood eczema and developing self-management resources to support them in this. She was previously a MRC Health Services Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where she completed her PhD using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods to look at why women consult their GP for heavy menstrual bleeding.
She has worked in Primary Care Research in Edinburgh, Dundee and Southampton.
Her research methods include qualitative and quantitative research and pragmatic trials in primary care. Dr Santer is interested in developing evidence to inform Primary Care management of a wide range of common conditions including childhood eczema, gout, heavy menstrual bleeding, chlamydia screening and the management of acute respiratory illnesses. She is particularly interested in how Primary Care can support self management for both acute illnesses and long term conditions.