1987 PhD Health Care Research. University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Thesis: 'Logistic discriminant analysis: applications in
health care research'
1976 BSc (Hons) First Class. Statistics. University of Newcastle
upon Tyne
Oct 1996-Mar 1998 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Research, University of Leeds
Aug 1991-Sep 1996 Senior Research Associate, Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Two contracts)
Aug 1978-Jul 1991 Research Associate on the core staff with responsibility for Statistics and Data Processing, Health Care Research Unit, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Six contracts)
Aug 1977-Jul 1978 Junior Research Associate, Medical Care Research Unit, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
MRC Trial Managers Network
Clinical Trial Managers Association
Society for Social Medicine
British Society of Gerontology
Margaret Cowan Award
Research Methodology, Statistics, Data Processing in Health Services Research and Medical Research
Large simple randomised controlled trials, complex technology assessment using randomised controlled trials and other research designs, surveys of patients, medical, nursing and therapy staff and relatives.
Questionnaire/CRF design for postal questionnaires, interview questionnaires, observation, abstraction.
Clinical areas include neurosurgery, neuroradiology, community maternity care, elderly care, orthopaedics, primary care and cover processes and outcomes of service use, resource implications, interprofessional collaboration and teamwork.
Analysis includes SPSS, multivariate analysis, logistic regression, pragmatic and explanatory trials and survey analysis.
Surgical Trial in Traumatic Intracerebral haemorrhage (STITCH[Trauma])Surgical Trial in Lobar Intracerebral Haemorrhage (STICH II)
Clot Lysis: Evaluating Accelerated Resolution of Intraventricular Haemorrhage Phase III(CLEAR III)
Minimally Invasive Surgery +rTpa for Evacuation of ICH (MISTIE)
Surgical Trial in Intracerebral Haemorrhage (STICH)
Clot Lysis: Evaluating Accelerated Resolution of Intraventricular Haemorrhage (CLEAR IVH)
International Study of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms (ISUIA III)
Also developing studies of Backswing, Epilepsy and head injury, Epilepsy and ICH, Simvastatin in aneurysmal SAH, Epidural fentanyl analgesia following elective lumbar laminectomy, Foraminal decompression, 360 Coil Registry
Trial director and trial statistician responsible for MREC and MHRA applications, grant applications, grant costing using Pfac, budgeting and finance using SAP, trial design, questionnaire design, data collection, databases, data analysis and writing.