Dr Samuel Merriel

Sam is a GP in North-West England, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research at the University of Manchester, and Associate Editor of the British Journal of General Practice. His main research interests are the early detection and prevention of cancer in primary care and the evaluation and implementation of new diagnostic tests. Sam has conducted extensive research into prostate cancer diagnosis in primary care, including the role of symptoms, the accuracy of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) in primary care, and the potential impact of prostate MRI in diagnostic pathways. Sam served on the recent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) prostate cancer guidelines update committee in 2021, and he has been a member of expert reference groups for Prostate Cancer UK, Movember, the National Cancer Research Institute, and NHS England.