Staff in BESATE In 'Our staff' Honorary-StaffPhD StudentsKey staffBiostatistics, evidence synthesis and test evaluationHealth Economics UnitPatient reported outcomesSocial Studies in MedicineGlobal Health and EducationStaff A-Z Back to 'Institute of Applied Health Research' Ridhi Agarwal Medical statistician specialising in evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of medical tests. Sophie Beese Systematic reviewer with specialist knowledge in evidence synthesis and research methods. Sarah Berhane Medical statistician working in diagnostic and prognostic modelling, and test accuracy evaluation. April Coombe Information specialist working within the group's information support team, developing search strategies to identify appropriate research literature for systematic reviews. 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 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. Christina Easter Medical statistician specialising in cluster randomised trials and prognostic modelling Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano Methodologist and systematic reviewer specialising in patient health impact of diagnostic and screening tests, and diagnostic accuracy. Coordinator of TERG monthly meetings. Alan Girling Honorary Reader in Medical Statistics has published research papers in Statistical Methodology, Applied Statistics and Health Economics and has contributed to many medical research projects. Sayeed Haque Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics Bella Harris Systematic reviewer and also one of the managing editors for the Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy (DTA) Editorial Team. Karla Hemming Clare Herd Systematic reviewer working predominantly in the areas of Parkinson’s disease and headache. Caroline Kristunas Natasha Maguire PA to Professor Jon Deeks James Martin Lecturer in Medical Statistics David Moore Senior Lecturer Dr Moore specialises in directing multidisciplinary teams of researchers undertaking systematic reviews, health technology assessments and associated research. 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 Medical statistician with main research interest in diagnostic test evaluation, including interobserver variability and time to diagnosis studies. Barney Scholefield Clinical academic researcher within the field of paediatric neuro-critical care and cardiac arrest resuscitation. Pawana Sharma Systematic reviewer specialising in diagnostic test accuracy Alice Sitch Medical statistician specialising in designing and evaluating monitoring tests and studies of biological variability Claire Smith Systematic reviewer at BCTU for the Neurological disease portfolio which includes Parkinson’s disease and migraine. 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. Jacqueline Thompson Research Fellow with clinical focus on research into improving the management and outcomes of paediatric patients in Intensive care Units (ICU). Honorary Researchers: 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 Postgraduate research student on a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) funded PhD: 'Opportunities and Challenges in Using Routine Data Sources to Evaluate Biomarkers'. Konstantinos Tryposkiadis