Staff Profile
Adam Errington
Research Assistant
- Email: adam.errington2@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Royal Victoria Infirmary
(Sir James Spence Institute)
Queen Victoria Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4LP
Research
The use of ionising radiation (IR) in medicine, the largest source of general population radiation exposure, is potentially associated with increased risk of cancer and non-cancer diseases, which needs to be evaluated to provide evidence-based input for risk-benefit considerations, optimization of treatment protocols and implementation of preventive actions. In this context, my research aims at improving understanding of the biological and health effects of exposure to medical IR in children, specifically cancer patients treated with modern radiotherapy techniques, and cardiac patients treated with cardiac fluoroscopy procedures.
Publications
- Errington A, Einbeck J, Cumming J. Estimating exposure fraction from radiation biomarkers: a comparison of frequentist and bayesian approaches. In: International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification & Optimisation (UQOP 2020). 2020, Brussels: Springer.
- Errington A, Einbeck J, Cumming J. Radiation dose estimation via the contaminated Poisson and negative binomial methods in partial-body exposures. In: Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Metrology (MSMM 2021). 2021, Online.
- Errington A, Einbeck J, Cumming J, Rössler U, Endesfelder D. The effect of data aggregation on dispersion estimates in count data models. The International Journal of Biostatistics 2022, 18(1), 183-202.