Mr Simon Baldwin

• BA (Hons) in Mathematics and Music, University of Birmingham, 2015

Simon studied Mathematics and Music at the University of Birmingham. Prior to starting his PhD, Simon worked at University Hospitals Birmingham in a collaborative role with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) chaired by Professor Domenico Pagano, providing technical and statistical support to Quality Improvement Programmes (QUIPs). Simon was also a member of a joint Cancer and Genomics-Health Informatics Research group chaired by Mr Prashant Patel, providing statistical support to projects, several of which have now been published.

• Epidemiology Statistics and Research Methods – Postgraduate Demonstrator
• Practical Epidemiology and Statistics – Postgraduate Demonstrator

PhD title

'Opportunities and Challenges in Using Routine Data Sources to Evaluate Biomarkers' Expected year of completion: 2022 Third Supervisor Dr Alice Sitch

Supervisors

Professor Jon Deeks and Professor Yemisi Takwoingi

Simon’s PhD research is on methods to estimate and evaluate components of variability from pre-existing datasets containing repeated biomarker measurements taken on subjects over time, such as in clinical trial and routine data sources. Unlike when conducting prospective longitudinal Biological Variability Studies (BVS), pre-existing datasets rarely contain the necessary data required for methods commonly used in longitudinal BVS. Methods that address the limitations of using pre-existing datasets have important implications to investigating how components of variability can be estimated and evaluated retrospectively.

Research groups and centres

• National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
• University of Birmingham Test Evaluation Research Group
• University of Birmingham Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE) group
• University Hospitals Birmingham Health Informatics Research group

• MEMTAB, Leuven (Virtual Symposium). 2020
• 32nd EACTS Annual Meeting, Milan. 2018
• 31st EACTS Annual Meeting, Vienna. 2017
• 30th EACTS Annual Meeting, Barcelona. 2016