NPEU - Key Persons
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- MAMA Trial Administrative Assistant and Data Coordinator
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- DOLFIN Data Co - Ordinator, UKOSS OpenClinica Developer
Biography
Alan graduated from Plymouth Polytechnic with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Geology with Physics followed by a MSc in Remote Sensing at University College, London. Alan then worked for five years as a geologist before joining Logica for eleven years as an analyst/programmer. Taking a career break in 2005 to care for his children. Believing in life long learning Alan obtained a BSc (Hons) in Observational Astronomy in 2017 at University of South Wales. He joined NPEU as in Trials Data Assistant in October 2018. Currently Tria Co-ordinator for TOAST and OpenClinica developer for UKOSS.
Biography
Alyssa Despotis joined the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) within the Nuffield Department of Population Health as a Fellowship Trainee.
Alyssa graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis prior to completing the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on maternal mental health and she is currently working on the National Maternity Surveys which are large population-based surveys examining the experiences of maternity care among women in the UK.
Job Titles:
- Trial Data Coordinator / Administrative Assistant
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- Head of Trials Programming
Biography
After graduating from the University of Oxford with a BA in Mathematics, Andy was self-employed as a computer programmer carrying out work for several Oxford colleges and the NHS. He joined the Unit in May 1996 working half-time first for the TRH Trial and then the Hip Trial from October 1997. He has worked on the INIS trial since 2001 and the BOOST-II UK trial since 2006, and developed the 4Child and UKCP databases. In 2009 he became Senior Trials Programmer and in 2014 was appointed Head of Trials Programming, and is responsible for the IT management of the NPEU CTU's work, including the computing aspects of the design and conduct of NPEU CTU randomised controlled trials.
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Andy completed a degree in Visual Arts in June 2000, during and after which he was involved in many freelance web and graphic design projects. He joined the Unit in July 2003, where his responsibilities include designing and maintaining the website and overseeing the design output for the Unit and its individual projects.
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Ann provides administration support for all trials, particularly those in development stages.
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Anshita Shrivastava joined the NPEU in March 2018 as a C# & Web Developer.
She is a full-stack developer with responsibility for the CSOR & UKOSS Systems.
Along with developing database-driven applications, she is deeply involved in the planning process & testing of these projects.
Prior to this, she has worked as a.Net developer in many IT & Non-IT companies & in different domains like Big Data, Finance, Insurance, Energy, Holidays & Caravan Bookings, Media, Gaming & Care Homes. She has a degree in Engineering (Electronics & Telecommunication) and has also taught as a lecturer in engineering colleges.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Trial Administrator
Biography
Christina works as a Senior Trials Manager in the Core Trials Team, supporting investigators with research ideas that they would like to develop, and offering advice or support on all aspects of trial design, management, conduct and analysis. She oversee the existing clinical trials portfolios, involving both IMP and non-IMP trials.Christina joined the NPEU in 2014 and worked on the SIFT Trial and as the Trial Manager for E-Freeze, the first IVF trial to be funded by the NIHR HTA.
Christina graduated form the London School of Economics in Economics with BSc (First class). Following this, she worked for several years in industry for leading retailers including John Lewis, Waitrose and Sainsbury's before changing careers, completing a Psychology MSc and moving into medical research.
Biography
Claire Carson is a Senior in Epidemiology, based in the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU). She has training in both quantitative and qualitative methods, and specialises in the analysis of observational and routine data. Her research interests include infertility and fertility treatment, preterm birth, and breastfeeding.
Claire joined the NPEU in 2008 to work on a project exploring health outcomes of children born after assisted reproductive technologies (ART) using data from the Millennium Cohort Study. She now holds an MRC Career Development Award to investigate the longer-term outcomes of fertility treatment in women and their children using record linkage (PEARL study). She has recently completed qualitative work to examine how people feel about their fertility data being used in research, and what they understand this to mean (the Taking pART study). Claire is also a co-investigator in the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care, leading work on preconception health and postnatal care.
Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Claire was a Research Fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she also completed an MSc and then a PhD in Epidemiology. Claire supervises DPhil students, and enjoys teaching. She is a co-lead for the Maternal and Child Health module in the MSc Global Health Science & Epidemiology, and contributed to the Principles of Epidemiology and Statistics teaching for many years.
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Claudia is the CSOR Programme Manager. She has previously held posts in administration, management and facilitation of research at the universities of Manchester and Oxford.
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After graduating from Oxford Brookes University with a BSc in Applied Geology, David spent four years as a seismic geophysicist within the oil and gas exploration industry. In 2001 David worked for a GIS and cartographic company in Oxford as a software developer.
Since joining the NPEU as a Trials Programmer in November 2011, David has worked on numerous studies (including SIFT, ELFIN, ANODE, Poppi, TOBY Xe, Baby-OSCAR and NeoCLEAR) and since March 2020 the RECOVERY study. In 2014 he was appointed Senior Trials Programmer. His responsibilities include the development, validation and maintenance of clinical data databases to ensure that high quality data are available for analysis.
He has a particular interest in clinical trial data management and is a member of the Association for Clinical Data Management https://acdmglobal.org/.
Biography
Gracia Fellmeth is an NDPH Clinical Research Fellow based in the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU).
Gracia studied medicine and medical anthropology at University College London. After completing foundation training in clinical medicine, she undertook an MSc Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine followed by specialist training in Public Health in Oxford.
In 2018, Gracia obtained a DPhil in Population Health at the Nuffield Department of Population Health focusing on perinatal depression among migrant and refugee women on the Thai-Myanmar border. She currently holds a Clinical Fellowship from NDPH for research into perinatal depression and anxiety in women in India, working as part of the NPEU Maternal and Perinatal Health Research Collaboration, India (MaatHRI).
Job Titles:
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
- Senior Research Scientist in the
Biography
Harindra is a senior research scientist in The National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit working on a collaborative project led by Marian Knight and Julian Knight on advancing personalised maternal healthcare using genomic-based approaches alongside epidemiological studies.
Prior to her current position, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Centre for Human Genetics of the Nuffield Department of Medicine,investigating the role of functional genomics play in extreme immunity, and previously at The School of Cancer Sciences of the University of Southampton where she investigated the clinical utility of genetic and epigenetic biomarkers in treating Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) patients entered into first-line chemotherapy and chemo-immunotherapy in UK CLL clinical trials. Harindra received the Open PhD Scholarship for Life Sciences from the University of Leicester and completed her PhD on epigenetics and the evolution of genomic imprinting in a social insect system at The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.
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- Data Coordinator / Administrator
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- a Health Economics Researcher
- Health Economics Researcher
Biography
Helen joined the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit as a health economics researcher in August 2015, and prior to this worked for 13 years as an economist at the Health Economics Research Centre, which is also based within the University of Oxford. She has an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York, and a DPhil in Health Economics which was awarded by the University of Oxford in 2008. Helen has experience of trial and model-based health economic evaluation as well as costing studies. She is currently involved in a number of projects looking at the costs of stillbirth, and obesity in pregnant women.
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Adele was originally a researcher in the field of mindfulness, mental health and behaviour change. She has a DPhil in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford. She is currently a Researcher with the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit working on the national Perinatal Mortality Review Tool programme with Prof Jenny Kurinczuk.
In the past she has been involved in several studies on the feasibility and effectiveness of web-based mindfulness courses for reducing stress, anxiety and depression over the perinatal period and has created face-to-face and online interventions for various groups.
Biography
Adeniyi Aderoba graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Benin, Nigeria. He worked with the regional government in Nigeria before studying for an MSc at the University of Oxford.
Job Titles:
- Senior Researcher - MBRRACE - UK
Biography
Allison joined the NPEU in April 2023 as a researcher for MBRRACE-UK. Allison received her PhD in Reproductive Biology from Queen's University (Canada) and BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Waterloo (Canada).
Prior to joining NPEU, Allison worked at McMaster University (Canada) as a postdoctoral researcher and at the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), where she conducted evidence reviews and contributed to public health projects including those related to perinatal mental health, substance use in pregnancy, and maternal mortality.
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Elizabeth is a senior trial manager at NPEU working on the TOAST, POLAR and neoGASTRIC trials.
Elizabeth studied Zoology at Nottingham University then worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 15 years, involved in clinical trials in a variety of roles including project and staff management. For the last 12 years, she has worked as Trial and Operational Managers at the University of Oxford. She has worked in the Oxford Vaccine Group, the Department of Psychiatry and since Jan 2022 at NPEU.
Job Titles:
- Full - Stack Software Developer
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- Senior Social Scientist and Co - Director NIHR Policy Research Unit Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care
Biography
Hollie Burton researches obsessive compulsive disorder during pregnancy and postpartum. She is a DPhil student in Population Health based in the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit. She is supervised by Fiona Alderdice, Claire Carson and Paul Salkovskis.
She graduated from the University of Birmingham with a BSc (Hons) Psychology in 2017, where she became interested in the neurobiology of OCD. She then went on to complete her MSc Health Research at the Univerisity of Warwick and graduated in 2019. During this time she became interested in OCD from an epidemiolgoical and public health perspective particularly during the perinatal period. Her wider interests include maternal mental health in general.
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- Quality Assurance Manager
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- Head of Operations, NPEU CTU
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- Data Manager, NPEU CTU / Study Coordinator, ToSCiN
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- MAMA Trial Administrative Assistant and Data Coordinator
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- Director - NPEU Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health
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- Clinical Trials Administrator
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- Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellow
Biography
Ben Allin is a Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellow in Paediatric Surgery. He graduated from Imperial College in 2010, before completing foundation training in London, and a Paediatric Surgical Academic Clinical Fellowship in Oxford. His DPhil in Population Health focussed on investigating whether outcomes for children undergoing early surgery could be improved through the development and use of core outcome sets. Ben is a Paediatric Surgical Registrar at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and an Honorary Paediatric Surgical Registrar at Oxford Children's Hospital.
Ben's past research has focussed primarily on conducting large-scale National/International cohort studies, and using Delphi methodology to achieve consensus around clinically important questions. Amongst other things, his work has helped to advance the evidence base for treating children with gastroschisis and Hirschsprung's disease, and has helped develop a pathway for the management of children with Paediatric Inflammatory Multi-System Syndrome Temporally associated with COVID-19.
Ben is a co-applicant on a £2 million NIHR HS&DR Research Grant, the overall aim of which is to investigate whether it is possible to reduce unwarranted variation in outcomes of children's surgery by developing the Children's Surgery Outcome Reporting system (CSOR). CSOR will combine routinely collected data, data from electronic operative records, and parent reported outcomes data, and through use of an online dashboard and facilitated feedback, provide individual hospitals with data on how their case-mix adjusted outcomes compare to those of other hospitals. Provision of such feedback will allow investigation of where variation in practice results in variation in outcome
Job Titles:
- Director of NPEU Clinical Trials Unit
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- Senior Health Services Researcher
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- Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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- Senior Software Developer
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- Graphic & Multimedia Designer
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- Project Data Co - Ordinator / Administrative Assistant