Dr Amrit Takhar
Principal Investigator / Sub - Investigator
Dr Takhar has been a GP in Wansford and Kings Cliffe practice for over 30 years initially has a partner and more recently as a sessional Research GP.
In addition, he is currently CRN Eastern Region speciality lead for Primary care research and serves on research trial steering groups.
Dr Takhar has extensive primary care experience in teaching as GP trainer and NHS commissioning, as well as roles as member of Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Local medical committees.
He completed an MSc in Information Systems in 2004 and subsequently been very active in clinical research, leading the practice in over 60 interventional primary care studies. Areas of research interest include cardiovascular medicine, vaccines, respiratory disease, diabetes and dermatology.
He led the research time in 2019 to winning the RCGP/NIHR award for research practice of the year. He has been a speaker at international meetings on commercial studies in primary care and undertaking complex trial in general practice.
He has published a number of research papers on primary care research and psoriasis.
PUBLICATIONS
Takhar, A and Kirk,C . Stimulation of inorganic-phosphate incorporation into phosphatidylinositol mediated through V1-vasopressin receptors.
Biochemical Journal 194: 67-172, 1981.
Takhar, A. An Action Research Study into the Use of Groupware in a Health Care Setting
University of Salford (United Kingdom) ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2003. 29404633.
Takhar, A. Making the move from academic to commercial research studies. Prescriber Volume 23, issue 22, November 2012
Takhar, A et al . SWEETWISE: Developing a multi – professional approach to diabetes mellitus”, Primary Care Health Research and Development 2015 Mar 17:1-7
Takhar, A Should people at low risk of cardiovascular disease take a statin? (rapid response)
Amrit Takhar et al. The Effect on BSA of Proactive Management versus Reactive Management of Psoriasis With Fixed-Dose Cal/BD Foam in the PSO-LONG Study J Drugs Dermatol 2021 May 1;20(5):567-570.
L. Guenther, A. Takhar, M. Megna, M. Sebastian, N. Nyholm Impact of fixed-dose combination Cal/BD foam on the work productivity of patients with psoriasis: Results from the 52-week randomized, double-blind, PSO-LONG trial.” JEADV (Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology) 22 march 2022
