Helen Atherton

Role: Tutor

Helen is a National School of Primary Care Research fellow, based in the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at Oxford and is currently...more working on a variety of projects, including development of guidelines for the use of email with patients in general practice and a systematic review of self-screening of blood pressure in the community.

Helen has recently completed her MRC funded PhD at Imperial College London, which explored the potential for email as a method of consultation in English general practice and involved leading on a series of five Cochrane systematic reviews. Prior to the PhD she completed an MRC funded Master of Public Health, also at Imperial College. Her previous role was as research assistant at St George’s, University of London, where she was responsible for the day-to-day running of a randomised controlled trial. Throughout her time at St George’s and Imperial College she was involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Helen also has a BSc in Ecology and an MSc in Biological Anthropology from the University of Durham.

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Dr Clare Bankhead

Role: Tutor

Clare Bankhead is a systematic reviewer and epidemiologist with expertise in monitoring and diagnosis. She has a DPhil in diagnosis of ovarian...more cancer, which utilised both quantitative and qualitative research methods, an MSc in Epidemiology and a BSc in Physiology. Her main research interests lie in chronic disease monitoring, cancer diagnosis and subsequent monitoring and interventions to improve health related behaviours

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Derrick Bennett

Role: Tutor

Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford

Dr Dan Lasserson

Role: Tutor

Dan Lasserson is a GP and Clinical Lecturer with research interests in cardiovascular disease prevention and management of long term conditions....more His main area of research is the presentation, diagnosis and processes of care for patients after transient ischaemic attack (TIA). This combines a number of methodologies including the qualitative and quantitative analysis of healthcare-seeking behaviour, development of diagnostic and referral clinical prediction rules for TIA and analyses of how healthcare systems influence recurrent stroke rates via variations in pathways of care. He is currently working with data from the Oxford Vascular Study (OXVASC) and is a Visiting Fellow of the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

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Dr Susan Mallett

Role: Tutor

Sue Mallett is a medical statistician specialising for 8 years in research methodology, design and analysis of diagnostic accuracy and prognostic...more studies. As a Senior Statistician for the EBHC MSc and DPhil courses at Oxford University, she teaches on several of the courses and acts a focus for statistical input. Sue works at the Department of Primary Care. She has co-authored a chapter in the Cochrane Diagnostics Reviewers' Handbook, a guide on how to conduct diagnostic systematic reviews. Sue is a member of the Steering group for QUADAS2, a risk of bias tool being developed for diagnostic accuracy studies, an update of the diagnostic accuracy quality checklist QUADAS. Her research areas include the use of radiological imaging in diagnosis and prognosis. Sue has a BA in Biochemistry and a DPhil in molecular immunology from Oxford, and a Diploma in Statistics.

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Dr Sharon Mickan

Role: Tutor

Sharon Mickan is Deputy Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care, at the University of Oxford. Sharon has worked as an...more occupational therapist clinician, manager, researcher, consultant and educator in healthcare organisations in Australia and Europe. She has considerable experience in teaching for undergraduates, postgraduates and for continuing professional development.

Sharon’s doctoral thesis investigated what makes effective teams in healthcare organisations. She used a mixed methodology approach to develop a model of teamwork, which she has used for team evaluation and development. She has experience in developing research capacity and has supervised several research projects in clinical settings. Sharon has also collaborated on and led a range of systematic reviews. Her research interests focus on investigating how research evidence is implemented in practice, from the perspectives of both clinicians and the public.

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Dr Rafael Perera

Role: Tutor

Rafael Perera is Director of Statistics Group, Dept Primary Care Health Sciences, and University of Oxford. He is also a statistics editor to the...more British Medical Journal and a member of the Health Technology Assessment programme Commissioning Board at the UK National Institute for Health Research.

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Michele Peters

Role: Tutor

Michele Peters is a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Public Health, University of Oxford. Michele has a B.Sc. in nutrition...more (University of Surrey), M.Sc. in Health and Exercise Sciences (University of Bristol), a conversion diploma in psychology (Open University) and a Ph.D. in Health and Medical Sciences (University of Surrey). Before joining the Department of Public Health, Michele worked as a research fellow in the Department of Medical Psychology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam (Netherlands). She works on a range of projects about health services, including surveys using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patients’ and carers’ experiences of health care services; and developing quality indicators for headache health care services. Her main research interests are the patients’ perspective of health care and disease management and research methods. She teaches survey design on the M.Sc. in Global Health and the M.Sc. in Evidence based Medicine.

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Ms Nia Wyn Roberts

Role: Tutor

Nia is an outreach librarian at the University of Oxford Health Care Libraries. She has worked in health care libraries for over 8 years, and in...more recent years has worked closely with Department of Primary Care and Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, teaching searching skills and contributing to systematic reviews.

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Irene Stratton

Role: Tutor

Honorary Associate Professor (University of Warwick Clinical Sciences Research Institute).

Senior Statistician, English National...more Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme

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