Mr Simon Baldwin

Simon Baldwin

PhD Student

Contact details

Email
swb267@student.bham.ac.uk
Address
Offices 237-238 Public Health Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Simon is a postgraduate research student on a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) funded PhD. He is a member of the University of Birmingham Test Evaluation Research Group (TERG) and Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Test Evaluation (BESaTE) group, and an honorary contract holder at University Hospitals Birmingham in the Health Informatics Research group.

Qualifications

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

Biography

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.

Teaching

Doctoral research

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

Research

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

Other activities

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

Publications

Highlight publications

Dosanjh, A, Harvey, P, Baldwin, S, Mintz, H, Evison, F, Gallier, S, Trudgill, N, James, ND, Sooriakumaran, P & Patel, P 2020, 'High-intensity focused ultrasound for the treatment of prostate cancer: a national cohort study focusing on the development of stricture and fistulae', European Urology Focus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2019.11.014

Harvey, PR, Baldwin, S, Mytton, J, Dosanjh, A, Evison, F, Patel, P & Trudgill, NJ 2020, 'Higher volume providers are associated with improved outcomes following ERCP for the palliation of malignant biliary obstruction', EClinicalMedicine, vol. 18, 100212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.11.005

Dosanjh, A, Baldwin, S, Mytton, J, King, D, Trudgill, N, Belal, M & Patel, P 2019, 'A national study of artificial urinary sphincter and male sling implantation after radical prostatectomy in England', BJU International , pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/bju.14955

Harvey, P, Rees, J, Baldwin, S, Waheed, H, Tanner, J-R, Evison, F, Patel, P & Trudgill, N 2019, 'Outcomes of colorectal stents when used as a bridge to curative resection in obstruction secondary to colorectal cancer', International journal of colorectal disease, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 1295-1302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00384-019-03302-5

Recent publications

Article

Deeks, J, Dinnes, J, Takwoingi, Y, Davenport, C, Spijker, R, Taylor-Phillips, S, Adriano, A, Beese, S, Dretzke, J, Ferrante di Ruffano, L, Harris, I, Price, M, Dittrich, S, Emperador, D, Hooft, L, Leeflang, MMG, Van De Bruel, A, McInnes, MDF, Stuyf, T, Domen, J, Horn, S, Yang, B, Langendam, M, Ochodo, E, Guleid, F, Holtman, G, Verbakel, J, Wang, J, Stegeman, I, Salameh , JP, McGrath , TA, van der Pol , CB, Frank , RA, Prager , R, Hare , SS, Dennie , C, Jenniskens, K, Korevaar , DA, Cohen , JF, van de Wijgert, J, Damen , JAAG, Agarwal, R, Baldwin, S, Berhane, S, Herd, C, Kristunas, C, Quinn, L & Scholefield, B 2020, 'Antibody tests for identification of current and past infection with SARS-CoV-2', Cochrane Library, vol. 2020, no. 6, CD013652. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD013652

Poster

Baldwin, S, Sitch, A, Takwoingi, Y & Deeks, J 2020, 'Weighted variogram analyses for estimating within-patient variance components using routine data from biomarker monitoring programmes', Methods for Evaluation of medical prediction Models, Tests and Biomarkers (MEMTAB) 2020, Leuven, Belgium, 10/12/20 - 11/12/20.

Review article

Baracaia, S, McNulty, D, Baldwin, S, Mytton, J, Evison, F, Raine, R, Giacco, D, Hutchings, A & Barratt, H 2020, 'Mental health in hospital emergency departments: Cross-sectional analysis of attendances in England 2013/2014', Emergency Medicine Journal, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 744-751. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2019-209105