About Nicola Irvine

Dr Nicola Irvine is a doctoral researcher in the department of Management Science and a consultant physician in Acute and Internal Medicine. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Dundee in 1999 and completed her post-graduate training working in Hospitals across the UK. She obtained a Masters in Economic Evaluation for Healthcare Technology Assessment and a PG Diploma in Health Economics from the University of York in 2018. Nicola was awarded a John Anderson Research Award with partial funding from the Scottish Government’s Unscheduled Care Collaborative to undertake PhD research in unscheduled care in October 2018. She combines clinical work in urgent care with health systems modelling in her research area of Ambulatory Emergency Care under the supervision of Dr Robert Van der Meer and Dr Itamar Megiddo. She recently started working in the SBS Health Systems Group where she is involved in modelling pancreatic cancer pathways and, most recently, local hospital resources in the COVID-19 pandemic.