Staff in BESTEAM
Our Staff:
Dr Ridhi Agarwal
Dr Ridhi Agarwal is a Medical Statistician with primary interests in evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of medical tests in clinical trial setting and risk prediction modelling.
Dr Esther Albon
Dr Esther Albon 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.
Dr Lucinda Archer
Dr Lucinda Archer's research focuses on prediction modelling research, both prognostic and diagnostic, with a particular interest in statistical methods development and improving methodological quality of published research.
Dr Simon Baldwin
Dr Simon Baldwin is a Medical Statistician with expertise in test evaluation, biological variability, longitudinal modelling, and routine data. His work is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), under the Data, Diagnostics and Decision Tools programme of work.
Miss Sophie Beese
Miss Sophie Beese is a Systematic Reviewer with specialist knowledge in evidence synthesis and research methods.
Dr Sarah Berhane
Dr Sarah Berhane is a Medical Statistician working in diagnostic and prognostic modelling, and test accuracy evaluation.
Prof Gary Collins
Professor Gary Collins is a 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of Medical Statistics. He is a NIHR Senior Investigator. His research interests are primarily focused on methodological aspects in the development and fair evaluation of clinical prediction models His other research interests lie in improving the transparency, openness and quality of health research, where he leads the EQUATOR Network activities in the UK.
Mrs April Coombe
Mrs April Coombe is an Information Specialist, developing search strategies to identify appropriate research literature for systematic reviews.
Dr Clare Davenport
Dr Clare Davenport is a 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.
Professor Jon Deeks
Professor Jon Deeks is Professor of Biostatistics and leads the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation Research Group in the Department of Applied Health Sciences.
Dr Jac Dinnes
Dr Jac Dinnes is a Senior Methodologist and Systematic Reviewer with a special interest in the evaluation of medical tests used for diagnostic and monitoring purposes.
Ms Janine Dretzke
Ms Janine Dretzke is a 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.
Mrs Christina Easter
Mrs Christina Easter is a Medical Statistician specialising in cluster randomised trials and prognostic modelling.
Dr Joie Ensor
Dr Joie Ensor is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics.
Dr Claudio Fronterre
Dr Claudio Fronterre is a Statistical Scientist specialising in spatial and spatio-temporal modelling for global health, with a particular focus on neglected tropical diseases and other health challenges in low-resource settings. Claudio’s research develops geostatistical methods to improve disease surveillance, map burden, and support programmatic decision-making.
Miss Amy Gamble
Amy Gamble is a Research Fellow with a background in evidence synthesis and systematic reviews.
Prof Emanuele Georgi
Professor Emanuele Giorgi is a 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of Statistical Science. He is a NIHR Senior Investigator. research focuses on developing and applying statistical and geostatistical methods to address global public health challenges, with a particular emphasis on infectious and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). He leads research that bridges statistical methodology development, implementation in open-source software, and application to global public health problems.
Dr Miriam Hattle
Dr Miriam Hattle is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics.
Professor Karla Hemming
Professor Karla Hemming leads a research programme related to stepped wedge trials, this includes both theoretical and applied research.
Beth Hillier
Beth Hillier is a Medical Statistician based in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation And prediction Modelling (BESTEAM) team. Her research interests primarily lie within diagnostic test evaluation, and her work is funded by the NIHR Birmingham BRC.
Dr Amardeep Legha
Dr Amardeep Legha is a Research Fellow based in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and Modelling (BESTEAM) team at the University of Birmingham where his main focus is on prediction modelling methodology projects with an application to machine learning.
Dr James Martin
Dr James Martin is a Medical Statistician specialising in designing and analysing cluster randomised trials and statistical lead of the Research Support Service Birmingham Hub.
Dr David Moore
Dr David Moore is an Associate Professor specialising in directing multidisciplinary teams of researchers undertaking systematic reviews, health technology assessments and associated research.
Dr Laura Quinn
Laura Quinn is a Medical Statistician with main research interest in diagnostic test evaluation, including interobserver variability and time to diagnosis studies.
Professor Richard Riley
Professor Richard Riley is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, leading a team of statisticians undertaking applied and methodology research for healthcare, especially in regard to prognosis, prediction models, and evidence synthesis.
Miss Katie Scandrett
Miss Katie Scandrett is a NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow and a member of the test evaluation research group. Last year she completed an MSc in Medical Statistics.
Professor Alice Sitch
Professor Alice Sitch is a Medical Statistician specialising in designing and evaluating monitoring tests and studies of biological variability.
Dr Kym Snell
Dr Kym Snell is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics. Kym’s interest is in applied and methodology research relating to risk prediction models. Kym also leads the 3-day CPD course “Statistical Methods for Risk Prediction and Prognostic Models” and is an associate editor for the BMC Journal Diagnostic and Prognostic Research.
Professor Yemisi Takwoingi
Professor Yemisi Takwoingi is a 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.
Hayley Walton
Hayley Walton is a Senior Administrator for BESTEAM and PA to Jon Deeks
Dr Rebecca Whittle
Dr Rebecca Whittle is a Medical Statistician. Becky’s main research interests lie in prognosis and prediction, with a focus on improving the reporting and development of prediction modelling, she has also been involved in many Department of Applied Health Sciences projects, mainly using large data from electronic health records.
Honorary Researchers:
Professor Sian Taylor-Phillips
Professor Sian Taylor-Phillips is a Methodologist and systematic reviewer specialising in developing methods and conducting reviews for the evaluation of screening programmes and screening tests