Staff in BESTEAM

Sophie Beese

Sophie Beese

Systematic reviewer with specialist knowledge in evidence synthesis and research methods.

 

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Sarah Berhane 

Medical statistician working in diagnostic and prognostic modelling, and test accuracy evaluation.

 

April Coombe

April Coombe

Information specialist developing search strategies to identify appropriate research literature for systematic reviews.

 

Jac Dinnes

Jac Dinnes 

Senior methodologist and systematic reviewer with a special interest in the evaluation of medical tests used for diagnostic and monitoring purposes.

 

Janine Dretzke

Janine Dretzke

Senior Systmatic Reviewer with considerable experience in conducting evidence syntheses, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and health technology assessments (HTA) to inform local and national healthcare decision making. 

 

Clare Davenport

Clare Davenport 

Consultant in Public Health specialising in methods for undertaking systematic reviews of test accuracy, methods for development of evidence based testing policy and the process of diagnostic decision making.

Christina Easter

Christina Easter 

Medical statistician specialising in cluster randomised trials and prognostic modelling

 

Sayeed Haque

Sayeed Haque

Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics

 

 

Karla Hemming

Karla Hemming

Karla Hemming leads a research programme related to stepped wedge trials, this includes both theoretical and applied research.

Beth Hillier

Beth Hillier

Bethany is finishing her MSc Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester. Once complete, Bethany will be exposed to a variety of projects, methods and techniques under the guidance of the research group.

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Rosie Boodell

Senior Administrator and PA to Jon Deeks 

James Martin

James Martin

Lecturer in Medical Statistics 

 

David Moore

David Moore

Associate Professor specialising in directing multidisciplinary teams of researchers undertaking systematic reviews, health technology assessments and associated research.

 

Malcolm Price

Malcolm Price

Lecturer in Biostatistics with a keen interest in tackling important applications in evidence synthesis and decision modelling that require development of new methodology.

 


Laura Quinn

Laura Quinn

Medical statistician with main research interest in diagnostic test evaluation, including interobserver variability and time to diagnosis studies. 

 


Barney Scholefield

Barney Scholefield

Clinical academic researcher within the field of paediatric neuro-critical care and cardiac arrest resuscitation.

 


Alice Sitch

Alice Sitch 

Medical statistician specialising in designing and evaluating monitoring tests and studies of biological variability

 

Yemisi Takwoingi

Yemisi Takwoingi 

Biostatistician with primary interests in systematic review methodology, especially meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy studies, and applied health research projects related to diagnostic test evaluation.

 

Katie Scandrett

Katie Scandrett

Katie is a NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow and a member of the test evaluation research group. Last year she completed an MSc in Medical Statistics.

Ridhi Agarwal

Ridhi Agarwal

Medical Statistician with primary interests in evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of medical tests in clinical trial setting and risk prediction modelling.

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Esther Albon

Esther works as a systematic reviewer in the BESaTE team conducting evidence syntheses, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and health technology assessments (HTA) to aid decision making within local and national healthcare.

Breanna Morrison

Breanna Morrison

 Honorary Researchers:

Sian Taylor-Phili

Sian Taylor-Phillips 

Methodologist and systematic reviewer specialising in developing methods and conducting reviews for the evaluation of screening programmes and screening tests

PhD students:


Simon Baldwin

Simon Baldwin

PhD title: 'Opportunities and Challenges in Using Routine Data Sources to Evaluate Biomarkers'

Expected year of completion: 2024

Supervisors: Professor Jon DeeksProfessor Yemisi TakwoingiDr Alice Sitch

 

 

Konstantinos Tryposkiadis

Konstantinos Tryposkiadis

 

Siwanon Rattanakanokchai

Siwanon Rattanakanokchai

 

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Jacqueline Thompson

PhD title: 'Estimating binary outcomes in comparative effectiveness research'.