Rate My Professor Matthew Ridd

Professor Matthew Ridd is a General Practitioner and Professor of Primary Health Care in Bristol Medical School's Population Health Sciences division at the University of Bristol. He qualified with an M.B., Ch.B. from the University of Birmingham, and holds additional qualifications including DE, PhD, FHEA, D.R.C.O.G., MRCGP, and FRCGP. Since joining the University of Bristol in 2002 at the Centre for Academic Primary Care, he has advanced through successive National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) fellowships: an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship from 2004 to 2009, NIHR Clinical Lectureship from 2009 to 2013, NIHR Clinical Trials Fellowship from 2013 to 2014, NIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship from 2015 to 2020, and most recently an NIHR Research Professorship awarded in 2023 for the Transforming Outcomes for Paediatric Allergy in Primary Care (TOPIC) project. He serves as Director of the Centre for Applied Excellence in Skin and Allergy Research (CAESAR).

Professor Ridd's research focuses on applied studies of common skin and allergy conditions managed in primary care, with an emphasis on pragmatic clinical trials. His work addresses childhood eczema, including leading the Best Emollients for Eczema (BEE) trial, which demonstrated equivalence among different emollients and earned the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research Paper of the Year award in 2023; the Bathing and Additives for the Treatment of Eczema in Children (BATHE) study on emollient bath additives; the Trial of Eczema allergy Screening Tests (TEST); and the Trial of food allergy (IgE) tests for eczema relief (TIGER). He has also contributed to the One in a Million study on primary care consultations and research on patient-doctor relationships, notably the 2009 paper 'The patient-doctor relationship: a synthesis of nine qualitative studies,' cited over 500 times. His research has twice received the RCGP Research Paper of the Year award and the 2017 John Fry Award for contributions to general practice research. Professor Ridd continues to practice as a GP in Portishead, North Somerset, influencing primary care management of skin conditions.