Our people

Our team comprises researchers, statisticians and clinicians with a wealth of experience in their field.

Dr Nicola Adderley

Dr Nicola Adderley

Associate Professor of Health Informatics and Epidemiology

Institute of Applied Health Research

Nicki Adderley is an Associate Professor of Health Informatics and Epidemiology. She co-leads the THINKINGroup, a multi-disciplinary group of researchers and clinicians who aim to use real world, routinely collected data to produce high quality research on epidemiology, clinical practice and health care utilisation relevant to patients and clinicians.

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5643
Email
n.j.adderley@bham.ac.uk

Dr Mohammed Baragilly

Dr Mohammed Baragilly

Honorary Research Fellow

Institute of Applied Health Research

Mohammed Baragilly is an Honorary Research Fellow in medical statistics based in the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham.

He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics in 2016 from School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham. His PhD thesis is on clustering multivariate and functional data using some non-parametric methods.

Mohammed has worked, ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3477
Email
m.h.h.baragilly@bham.ac.uk

Dr Joht Singh Chandan

Dr Joht Singh Chandan

Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health

Institute of Applied Health Research

Dr Chandan is a Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of Birmingham. His primary research focuses on identifying and addressing health inequalities, supported through novel data science approaches. He has expertise in population health data science, data linkage and medical education.

To date, Joht has spent considerable time working on designing and delivering a public ...

Email
j.s.chandan.1@bham.ac.uk

Ms Dyuti Coomar

Ms Dyuti Coomar

Research Fellow (Medical Statistics)

Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research

Dyuti Coomar is a Research Fellow (Medical Statistics) at the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research.

Dyuti initially trained as a Statistician, and then followed it up with a degree in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Her principal research interest is in systematic reviews, meta-analysis and specifically, individual participant data meta-analysis. She has previously worked on developing ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 4220
Email
d.coomar@bham.ac.uk

Dr Francesca Crowe

Dr Francesca Crowe

Lecturer in Epidemiology and Health Informatics

Institute of Applied Health Research

Francesca Crowe is a nutritional epidemiologist with an interest in how diet and nutrition influences health. Most of her work has involved assessing the associations of the intake of certain foods and nutrients with the risk of developing diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and digestive diseases (e.g. diverticular disease) in large prospective cohort studies. She has a special ...

Telephone
+44 (0)7733450666
Email
f.crowe@bham.ac.uk

Mr Krishna Margadhamane Gokhale

Mr  Krishna Margadhamane Gokhale

Research Fellow (Health Informatics)

Institute of Applied Health Research

Krishna Gokhale is a computer scientist focused on building game changing technologies to automate the process of data extraction and analysis for routine epidemiological research and developing scalable solutions to securely and safely integrate various healthcare data sources across patient care pathway.

Krishna is the architect and the developer of DExtER (Data Extractor for Epidemiological Re ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3027
Email
k.m.gokhale@bham.ac.uk

Professor Tom Marshall

Professor Tom Marshall

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care

Institute of Applied Health Research

Tom Marshall is a Professor of Public Health and Primary Care. His main medical speciality is in Public Health Medicine but he also has trained in General Practice and has studied Health Economics.

Tom has over 70 peer reviewed publications to date, over 35 as first author and a significant number as sole author. His research publications cover a number of related areas.

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Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7832
Email
t.p.marshall@bham.ac.uk

Professor Krish Nirantharakumar

Professor Krish Nirantharakumar

Professor in Health Data Science and Public Health
Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine
Deputy Director of the Institute of Applied Health Research

Institute of Applied Health Research

Krish is a senior clinical academic with substantial experience in health informatics research.

He is the theme lead for health informatics and Professor in Health Data Science and Public Health at the Institute of Applied Health Research, with affiliation to the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham. Krish has particular interests in developing novel ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8344
Email
k.nirantharan@bham.ac.uk

Dr Malcolm James Price

Dr Malcolm James Price

Lecturer in Biostatistics

Institute of Applied Health Research

Malcolm Price is a Lecturer in Biostatistics at Institute of Applied Health Research.

Malcolm has a keen interest in tackling important applications in evidence synthesis and decision modelling that require development of new methodology.

He has published over 20 research papers in scientific journals in the fields of statistics, epidemiology, health economics and clinical Sciences. He is ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 2530
Email
m.price.2@bham.ac.uk

Mr Gavin Rudge

Research Fellow

Institute of Applied Health Research

Gavin Rudge is a research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research. He has 20 years experience in Health Services research and prior to joining the University had a career in the Health Service as an information analyst and a Clinical Audit manager.

His research interests are health geography, quality in healthcare and data mining. 

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7852
Email
g.rudge@bham.ac.uk

Dr Chris Sainsbury

Dr Chris Sainsbury

Honorary Senior Clinical Research Fellow
Consultant Physician, Diabetes & Endocrinology, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Senior Fellow

Institute of Applied Health Research

Dr Sainsbury is a consultant diabetologist in Glasgow. He has a longstanding interest in data analysis and coding, leading to a number of projects in the areas of mathematical modelling and machine learning.

He is currently an NHS Research Scotland Senior Fellow, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Email
c.sainsbury.1@bham.ac.uk

Mr Mark Sheldon

Honorary Research Associate

Institute of Applied Health Research

Mark's role as an Honoray Research Associate primarily consists of supporting the British Heart Foundation with the production of key statistics and analysis. The British Heart Foundation is the nation's heart charity and the largest independent funder of cardiovascular research. They collect the most comprehensive statistics on the effects, prevention, treatment, costs and causes of ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8679
Email
m.p.sheldon@bham.ac.uk

Dr Dana Sumilo

Dr Dana Sumilo

Honorary Clinical Research Fellow in Public Health

Institute of Applied Health Research

Dana Sumilo is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.

Her main research interests are in the areas of health services research, policy evaluation, maternal and child health and infectious disease epidemiology.

She is the Chief Investigator of the NIHR HTA funded project (16/150/01) “Long term impact of giving ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7692
Email
d.sumilo@bham.ac.uk

Dr Rasiah Thayakaran

Dr Rasiah Thayakaran

Research Fellow in Health Informatics (Statistics)

Institute of Applied Health Research

Thayakaran (Thaya) is a Research Fellow in Health Informatics (Statistics) in the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham.

His research focuses on propensity score matching for observational data and on survival analysis using extended Cox proportional hazard model with time varying covariates. Also his research interests have focused recently on methods for dealing with ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3027
Email
r.thayakaran@bham.ac.uk

Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor in Epidemiology and Research Methods

Institute of Applied Health Research

Professor Thomas is the Regional Director, NIHR Research Design Service West Midlands and Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods in the Institute of Applied Health Research of the College of Medical and Dental Sciences, The University of Birmingham. 

Professor Thomas has an international portfolio of research in Europe, Africa and Asia investigating in the fields of cardiovascular ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8696/PA : Karen Biddle +44 (0)121 414 6774
Email
g.n.thomas@bham.ac.uk

Dr Brian Willis

MRC Clinician Scientist

Institute of Applied Health Research

Brian Willis is an MRC Clinician Scientist in Primary Care.

This divides his time between working in clinical practice as a GP and being a research investigator where his principal interest is in diagnostic test research.

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7949
Email
b.h.willis@bham.ac.uk