Who we are
Vasiliki Bountziouka - Research associate, University College London
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Visual health inequalities, temporal trends and causal inference models in myopia, and long term outcomes of amblyopia.
Kristian Brock - Senior Biostatistician, University of Birmingham
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Hierarchical models.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/cancer-genomic/brock-kristian
Catey Bunce
Joint Lead for NIHR Statistics group, Group Leader Ophthalmology; Ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society; Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust; Consultant in Applied Statistics, NIHR Moorfields BRC for Ophthalmology; Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests: Clinical trials; method agreement; translation of statistics to non-statistical audiences.
Catey.Bunce@lshtm.ac.uk
David Crabb - Professor of Statistics and Vision Research, City University London
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Medical statistics, statistical modelling and measurement techniques in vision.
Gabriela Czanner - Section Methodological Lead for NIHR Ophthalmology, Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Data Science, Liverpool John Moores University
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Diseases of retina, cornea and optic disc, linear mixed models, multivariate data analysis and spatio-temporal modelling for ophthalmic images.
www.liverpool.ac.uk/ageing-and-chronic-disease/staff/gabriela-czanner/
Caroline Doré - Professor of Clinical Trials and Statistics, UCL Clinical Comprehensive Trials Unit (CCTU)
Paul Henry John Donachie - Medical Statistician for the The Royal College Of Ophthalmologists' National Ophthalmology Database (The RCOphth NOD), Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and The RCOphth NOD
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Improving patient pathways, vitrectomy surgery and rare eye diseases.
Lisanne Gitsels – Biostatistician, University College London, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests:
Survival analysis, longitudinal analysis and joint modelling, application of relevant statistical techniques to clinical and care provision data.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health
Mariusz Grzeda – Statistician, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests:
PROMs; latent variable models (IRT/Rasch/Factor models etc.); questionnaire methodology
Sayeed Haque - Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Glaucoma, AMD.
Esmeralda Meunier - Consultant Biostatistician, NightstaRx Ltd, Thrombogenics NV
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Clinical Trials. Interest in electroretinogram (ERG) and microperimetry data.
Joanna Moschandreas - Senior Medical Statistician, University of Oxford
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Raising statistical standards in ophthalmic research, competing events.
joanna.moschandreas@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/joanna-moschandreas
Clareece Nevill - Research Associate, NIHR Complex Reviews Support Unit, University of Leicester
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Data visualisation - developing novel web-based graphics that take advantage of interactiveness, time and colour to enable researchers to carry out analyses and present results to the widest possible audience. Other interests: meta-analysis, evidence synthesis, diagnostic accuracy.
Gordon Prescott - Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics, University of Aberdeen
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
My main sources of data are from diabetic retinopathy screening from Scotland and the UK. I contributed to the development and evaluation of an automated screening algorithm now used across Scotland. I have been co-applicant and statistician on a series of studies evaluating markers from manual and automated diabetic retinopathy screening in relation to health outcomes such as macular oedema, progression of diabetic retinopathy and stroke. I am also interested in other areas of health such as renal disease and in statistical methods for diagnostic testing and prognostic modelling.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/profiles/gordon.prescott
Toby Prevost
Director of Nightingale-Saunders Clinical Trials and Epidemiology Unit, a specialist section of the King's CTU, King’s College London.
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Clinical trials of phases 1,2,3. Study Design. Adaptive designs for dose finding. Statistical collaboration in Trials in Ophthalmology. Trials of complex interventions for physical activity, smoking cessation, palliative care. Cluster randomised trials. Applied research along the pathway of lifestyle behaviours, weight, diabetes, diabetic complications. Studies in Diabetic Retinopathy, Macular Oedema in CRVO, AMD. Diagnostic accuracy and prediction modelling studies. Meta-analysis.
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/toby.prevost.html
Ana Quartilho - Senior Statistician, PHASTAR
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Design and analysis of clinical trials, statistical challenges in imaging studies and communication of statistics to non-statisticians.
Chris Rogers - Co-Director Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit, Bristol
Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, University of Bristol
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Lead statistician for the NIHR-HTA funded IVAN Trial. I have more than 30 years experience working as a medical statistician and over 15 years working in clinical trials. Particular interests include regression modelling and the analysis of longitudinal data using mixed models.
Alicja Rudnicka - Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, Population Health Research Institute, St George’s, University of London
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Complex systematic reviews, prediction modelling, Bayes methods, retinal imaging & vasculometry, diabetic eye screening.
Vasilika Sabeva - PhD Student, Plovdiv University, Paisii Hilendarski, Bulgaria
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
My research interests include statistical models and methods of analysis of ophthalmic data, the application of longitudinal data analysis in Ophthalmology.
John Stephenson - Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Statistics, University of Huddersfield
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
General medical statistics: multilevel (hierarchical) modelling; parametric survival analysis/competing risk modelling; multiple regression; generalised linear modelling/analysis of binary data; multivariate methods; meta analysis methods. I support a range of clinical projects in fields including ophthalmology, tissue viability, spinal surgical infections, primary caries and pharmaceutical sciences.
Irene Stratton - Senior Medical Statistician, Gloucestershire Retinal Research Group, Cheltenham General Hospital
Honorary Associate Professor (University of Warwick Clinical Sciences Research Institute)
Statistical Advisor to Diabetic Medicine.
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Experience: 8 years Cancer research, 20 years in Diabetes Trials Unit - epidemiology, trial design, started in current post in 2008 concentrating on Diabetic Retinopathy.
Topics: Diabetic retinopathy, Epidemiology of diabetic eye disease and diabetes, Clinical trials in ophthalmology, Quality assurance (grading of retinal images but also continue to work on lab QA), Data quality, Automated grading, Screening. Would like to see improvement in quality of data collected about all things to do with eyes before I retire!
Joana Vasconcelos
King’s College London
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Clinical trials in Ophthalmology
Srinivasan Venugopal - Biostatistician, Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital, India
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Ophthalmic study design, Clinical trials, Statistical modelling.
Wen Xing - Senior Data Manager, Research & Development, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Clinical trials; clinical trial randomisation; data management; public health.
Antra Zekite - Research Coordinator, Research & Development, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; The Royal College of Ophthalmologists c/o Certifications Office
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
OSG administrative assistance. Analysis of Certificate of Vision Impairment (CVI) data. Measuring and valuing visual health.
https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/cvi-and-preventable-sight-loss-indicator
Wenyue Zhu - PhD student, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool
Ophthalmic statistics and research interests
Spatial statistics, multivariate and longitudinal modelling with applications in ophthalmology such as diabetic retinopathy and retinal vascular occlusion. Also interested in joint modelling.