Usher Institute staff
All academic, research and professional services staff from across the Usher Institute.
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Full Usher Institute staff list
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role |
|---|---|
| Luciana D'Adderio | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Shima Abdullateef | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Imad Adamestam | Clinical Trial Statistician |
| Lorraine Adamson | Clinical Trials Administrator |
| Davies Adeloye | Research Fellow |
| Naseerah Akooji | Statistician |
| Fatima Almaghrabi | Postdoctoral Data Analyst |
| Amanda Amos | Emeritus Professor of Health Promotion |
| Lynn Anderson | Personal Assistant to the Director of the Usher Institute, Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh |
| Niall Anderson | Programme Co-Director (Master of Public Health - Full-time, Online) / Programme Deputy Director (M.Sc. in Epidemiology - online) |
| Stella Arakelyan | Research Fellow |
| Ruth Armstrong | Assistant Data Manager |
| Rachael Atherton | Project Administrator |
| Katie Atkins | Chancellor's Fellow / Reader |
| Marek Atter | Research Fellow in Health Economics |
| Selina Bairami | Personal Assistant to Professor David Weller |
| Dominique Balharry | Global Respiratory Health Research Manager |
| Kasia Banas | Undergraduate Talent Lead and Programme Director |
| Ailsa Barclay | ACRC Administrator |
| Claire Battison | Trial Manager |
| Linda Bauld | Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health |
| Miguel O. Bernabeu | Deputy Director and Director of Research, Bayes Centre | Deputy Head of Centre for Medical Informatics and Professor of Computational Medicine, Usher Institute |
| Gayle Beveridge | Trial Manager |
| Raj Bhopal | Emeritus Professor of Public Health |
| Matt Bouamrane | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Julia Boyd | Senior Trial Manager |
| Kirsty Boyd | Reader in Palliative Care |
| Nicola Boydell | THIS Fellow |
| Dr David P Breen | Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Neurologist |
| Anny Briola | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Kate Britton | Usher Operations Manager |
| Cathryn Broderick | Assistant Managing Editor/ Systematic Review Methodologist |
| Laura Brook | Administrative Assistant |
| Norma Brown | Financial Assistant |
| Susan Buckingham | Communications and Engagement Manager |
| Sophie Buijsen | Research Assistant |
| Alistair Bullen | Research Assistant (Health Economics) |
| Jacqui Calder | Trial Assistant |
| Clara Calvert | Chancellor's Fellowships in Global Challenges |
| Malcolm Cameron | Research Assistant |
| Christine Campbell | Reader |
| Christine Campbell | Clinical Trials Administrator |
| Dawn Campbell | Administrative Secretary |
| Harry Campbell | Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health |
| Kirsteen Campbell | Communications and Engagement Officer |
| Anne Canny | Research Fellow in Palliative Care |
| Mireille Captieux | Clinical Research Fellow |
| Arlene Casey | Research Fellow in Health Data Research |
| Dawn Cattanach | Graphic designer and KE assistant |
| Debbie Cavers | Research Fellow |
| Kit Chan | Reader/ Chancellor's Fellow |
| Sarah Chan | Reader/ Chancellor's Fellow |
| Fiona Clark | Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme (IHDP) Partnership Co-ordinator |
| Neil Clark | Data Analyst |
| Jess Conway | Communications and Digital Engagement Officer |
| Denise Cranley | Trial Manager |
| Gina Cranswick | Senior Trial Team Manager |
| Kathrin Cresswell | Senior Lecturer | Chief Scientist Office Chancellor’s Fellow |
| Matthew Cull | Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society |
| Sarah Cunningham-Burley | Professor of Medical and Family Sociology / Dean of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
| Gwenetta Curry | Lecturer of Race, Ethnicity, and Health |
| Kenton D'Mellow | Data Management & Programming Team Lead |
| Luke Daines | Clinical Research Fellow |
| Jennifer Daub | Dataloch Hub Data Analyst |
| Julie Davidson | Institute Administrator (NINE BioQuarter) |
| Karen Dawson | Personal Assistant to Professor Andrew Morris |
| Rebecca Dawson | Recruitment Coordinator |
| Giulia De Togni | Research Fellow |
| Afshan Dean | Programme Manager (MSc Clinical Trials online) |
| Lisa Derr | Trial Manager |
| Jennifer Devlin | Research Nurse |
| Lorna Dewar | Trial Manager |
| Katharina Diernberger | Research Fellow in Health Economics |
| Lynn Dinsmore | Trial Manager |
| Maria Dlugolecka-Graham | Honorary Fellow |
| Fiona Dobbie | Senior Research Fellow |
| Annemarie Docherty | Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship |
| Eddie Donaghy | Research Fellow |
| Dr Thomas Drake | |
| Andrew Duckworth | Senior Clinical Lecturer |
| Stuart Dunbar | Engagement Manager |
| Tim Duncan | Senior Software Developer |
| Helen Eborall | Lecturer in Critical Public Health |
| Morag Edwards | RESPIRE Project Administrator |
| Ines Eguiagaray | Statistical Geneticist |
| Sarah Elliot | Research Assistant |
| Holly Ennis | Trial Manager |
| Hannah Ensor | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Michelle Evans | Talent Lead for Health & Social Care sector of the Data Driven Innovation (DDI) programme| Director of MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care |
| Shedrack Ezu | DataLoch Hub Data Analyst |
| Karen Fairhurst | Senior Clinical Lecturer |
| Nusa Faric | Research Fellow |
| James Farrell | Postdoctoral Data Scientist |
| David Fearon | Teaching Fellow - Master of Family Medicine (online) |
| Candida Fenton | Information Specialist/Systematic Review Methodologist, Cochrane Vascular Group |
| Genevie Fernandes | Research Fellow in Global Health Governance and Respiratory |
| Jonine Figueroa | Professor of Molecular Epidemiology and Global Cancer Prevention |
| Simon Finnigan | Personal Assistant to Harry Campbell / Usher Administrative Secretary |
| Robin Flaig | Chief Operations Officer, Generation Scotland |
| Kelly Fleetwood | Statistician |
| Mary Flook | Research Fellow in Epidemiology |
| Kitty Flynn | BREATHE Digital Marketing Executive |
| Andrea Ford | Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society: Beyond Disease |
| Laura Forsyth | Trial Manager |
| Gerry Fowkes | Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology |
| John Frank | Emeritus Professor | Lead, Research and Evidence-Based Medicine Module |
| Helen Frost | Research Fellow (ACRC) |
| Jaime Garcia Iglesias | SHI Foundation Mildred Blaxter Fellow |
| Lesley Gardner | Personal Assistant to Professor Sarah Wild |
| Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril | Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society |
| Sebastien Georges | Postgraduate Research Support Officer |
| Maria Georgiou | Programme Manager |
| Ylenia Giarratano | Research Fellow (C1) (ACAD - Researcher) |
| James Gibson | Lecturer |
| Lorna Gibson | Clinical Research Fellow |
| Annabel Giddings | Assistant Trial Manager |
| John Gillies | Honorary Professor | Senior Adviser Global Health Academy | Co-Director University of Edinburgh Compassion Initiative |
| Pauline Golding | Teaching Fellow - MPH (online) |
| Laura Gonzalez Rienda | PPI Research and Operations Assistant |
| Su Goopy | PGT Research Manager |
| Elvina Gountouna | Data Manager |
| Liz Grant | Professor of Global Health and Development/ Director Global Health Academy / Assistant Principal Global Health / Programme Co-Director (MSc Global eHealth, Global Health Challenges, Master of Family Medicine) |
| Michael Gray | Implementation Lead (Health & Social Care Data-Driven Innovation) |
| Paula Grieve | Finance Administrator |
| David Griffith | Reader |
| Bruce Guthrie | Professor of General Practice |
| Fasih Haider | Postdoctoral Data Analyst |
| Nynke Halbesma | Research Fellow/ Programme Co-Director MPH (on campus) |
| Gregor Hall | AIM-CISC Administrator |
| Vicky Hammersley | IMP2ART Programme Manager / Research Fellow – Allergy and Respiratory Research Group |
| Jeni Harden | Reader |
| Maureen Harding | Administrative Secretary |
| David Hardman | Research Fellow |
| Ronnie Harkess | Senior Software Developer |
| Ewen Harrison | Professor of Surgery and Data Science |
| Kathy Harrison | Dataloch Programme Lead |
| Michelle Hart | Deputy Teaching Manager / Digital Education Manager |
| Ruth Hart | Research Fellow |
| Louise Hartley | Programme Coordinator (ACRC) |
| Sara Hatam | BREATHE Hub Data Analyst |
| Katie Hawkins | Academic Fellow in General Practice |
| Lewis Hazlett | HR Administration Assistant |
| Emily Healy | Senior Research Administrator |
| Lorna Heaney | Communications and Events Administrative Officer |
| David Henderson | Quantitative Research Fellow |
| Anna Heye | Trial Manager |
| Sam Hillman | Postdoctoral Data Analyst |
| Susan Hinder | Research Fellow |
| Iris Ho | Systematic Reviewer |
| Dr Leonard Ho | Systematic Reviewer (ACRC) |
| Jo Hockley | Research Fellow |
| Prema Howard | Marketing Lead (PGT) |
| Huayi Huang | Research Fellow - Qualitative |
| Calder Hudson | Research Administrator |
| Karen Hunter | BREATHE HUB Operations Manager |
| Andrii Iakovliev | Research Fellow (informatician/software Developer) |
| Wendy Inglis Humphrey | Chief Operating Officer |
| Karen Innes | Senior Trial Manager |
| Sîan Irvine | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Caroline Jackson | Chancellor's Fellow / Senior Lecturer |
| Tracy Jackson | Senior Research Fellow, Patient and Public Involvement Lead |
| Claire Jankowska | Communications and Engagement Officer |
| Shireen Jawas | Personal Assistant to Sarah Cunningham-Burley |
| Karen Jeffrey | Postdoctoral Data Analyst |
| Wenhua Jiang | Biostatistician/Machine Learning Specialist |
| Elli Johnston | Administrative Assistant |
| Peter Joshi | Honorary Fellow |
| Aileen Keel | Director, Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme / Honorary Professor |
| Catriona Keerie | Assistant Statistical Director (Commercial) |
| Markéta Keller | Teaching Fellow |
| Katherine Kentistou | MRC Research Fellow |
| Steven Kerr | Senior Research Fellow |
| Barbara Kimbell | Research Fellow |
| Theresa Kirkpatrick | Project Coordinator |
| Amir Kirolos | Honorary Clinical Fellow (and Public Health Speciality Registrar, NHS Lothian) |
| Liz Lamb | Senior Secretary |
| Stephen Lavenberg | DataLoch Service Manager |
| Julia Lawton | Professor of Health and Social Science |
| Robert Lee | Senior Statistician |
| Rebecca Lees | Administrator |
| Elizabeth Lemmon | Lecturer |
| Sharon Levy | CPD Lead Data Driven Innovation Talent Team |
| Katherine Lewis | Trial Management Support Officer |
| Steff Lewis | Professor of Medical Statistics |
| Ai Lim | RESPIRE Programmes and Trial Manager |
| Chun Lin | Data Analyst |
| Gabriella Linning | Communications and Engagement Officer |
| Debby Lipschutz | Postdoctoral Genetic Epidemiologist |
| Nazir Lone | Reader |
| Lu Lu | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| Saturnino Luz | Reader |
| Alix Macdonald | Trial Manager |
| Calum Macdonald | Senior Research Fellow |
| Margaret MacDougall | Medical Statistician and Researcher in Education |
| Rob Mackie | Communication Officer, ACRC |
| Sarah Mackinnon | ACRC Research Impact Officer |
| Morag MacLean | Senior Trial Manager |
| Alasdair Maclullich | Professor of Geriatric Medicine |
| Julie MacMillan | Research Governance / HR Administrator |
| Clare MacRae | MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow |
| Christina Mainka | Lecturer |
| Meiko Makita | PPI Research Fellow |
| Sophie Marion de Proce | Statistics Teaching Fellow |
| Viv Marsh | IMP2ART Facilition Co-ordinator: Specialist Nurse |
| Laura Marshall | Conference and Events Organiser |
| Sancha Martin | Consortium Manager |
| Bruce Mason | Research Fellow |
| Kate Massie | Personal Assistant to Professor Linda Bauld |
| Cristina Matthews | Postgraduate Teaching Hub Administration Manager |
| Susanne Maxwell | Academic Fellow in General Practice |
| Magdalena Mazurczak | Programme Administrator |
| Sophie McCall | DataLoch Hub Data Analyst |
| Sarah McCallum | MPH (Full time) Operations Coordinator |
| Haruno McCartney | Research Assistant |
| Kirstie McClatchey | Research Fellow |
| Lucy McCloughan | Programme Manager, Advanced Care Research Centre |
| Lynne McGillivray | ECTU Administrator |
| Paul McKeigue | Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics |
| Aoife Mckenna | Research Assistant |
| Brian McKinstry | Emeritus Professor of Primary Care E-Health |
| Stela McLachlan | Research Manager |
| Ruth McQuillan | Co-Lead UNCOVER (Usher Network for COVID Evidence Reviews), Programme Co-Director (Master of Integrated Global Health - online), Reader |
| Emilie Mcswiggan | UNCOVER Project Manager |
| Gillian Mead | Professor of Stroke and Elderly Care Medicine |
| Felicity Vidya Mehendale | Senior Lecturer |
| Magda Mekky | Teaching Fellow (MPH online) |
| Joe Mellor | Informatician (Machine Learning Specialist) |
| George Melrose | Research Assistant |
| Stewart Mercer | Professor of Primary Care and Multimorbidity |
| Laura Miller | Finance Assistant |
| Martine Miller | Research Fellow |
| Tristan Millington | Postdoctoral Data Analyst |
| Nicholas Mills | Professor of Cardiology, Butler BHF Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Consultant Cardiologist | SRO Data-Driven Innovation Hub, Usher Institute |
| Garry Milne | Software Developer |
| Lynsey Milne | Data Manager |
| Sharon Moncrieff | Senior Secretary |
| Andrew Morris | Professor of Medicine / Vice-Principal Data Science |
| Ailsa Morrison | Finance Administrator |
| Sarah Morton | Honorary Fellow |
| Ian Muchamore | Public Engagement & Knowledge Exchange Manager |
| Mome Mukherjee | Senior Research Fellow |
| Charlotte Munden | Postgraduate Administrator |
| Lauren Murdoch | Trial Manager |
| Gordon Murray | Emeritus Professor of Medical Statistics |
| Sarah Murray | Communications and Engagement Officer |
| Scott Murray | Emeritus Professor of Primary Palliative Care |
| Harish Nair | Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health |
| Aileen Neilson | Senior Health Economist |
| Mia Nelson | Research Fellow |
| Matt Newlands | Administrator NHSDA |
| Kristin Nicodemus | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Angela Niven | Trial Manager |
| Erin Noble | Research Assistant |
| John Norrie | Professor of Medical Statistics and Trial Methodology / Director of Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit |
| Bright Nwaru | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Stephanie O'Donovan | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Kat Oatey | Trial Manager |
| David Obree | Archie Duncan Fellow in Medical Ethics and Fellow in Medical Education |
| Richard Osei-Yeboah | Research Fellow |
| Claudia Pagliari | Senior Lecturer |
| Claire Parker | Project Administrator and Personal Assistant to Professor Harish Nair |
| Richard Parker | Senior Research Fellow |
| Karissa Robyn Patton | Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society |
| Alex Peden | Senior Research Strategy Manager |
| Rachel Penman | Trial Manager |
| Martyn Pickersgill | Professor of the Sociology of Science and Medicine |
| Hilary Pinnock | Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine |
| Ian Piper | Data Analyst |
| Riinu Pius (Ots) | Senior Data Manager |
| Steve Platt | Emeritus Professor of Health Policy Research |
| Evgeniya Plotnikova | Teaching Fellow (online) |
| Roz Pollock | Clinical Trial Statistician |
| Rosemary Porteous | ODL Programme Administrator (Master of Public Health – online) |
| Stephen Powell | Data Acquisition Manager |
| Jackie Price | Professor of Molecular Epidemiology |
| Regina Prigge | Statistician / Epidemiologist |
| Carys Pugh | ACRC Quantitative analyst/Statistician |
| Robin Ramsay | Clinical Programme Director |
| David Rankin | Research Fellow |
| Phillip Rayson | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Mairi Redman | IHDP PA/ Administrator |
| Natalia Reglinska-Matveyev | Research & Operations Manager |
| Maggie Reid | Research Midwife |
| Jayne Richards | Personal Assistant to Professor Bruce Guthrie and Professor Stewart Mercer |
| Hannah Rickman | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Jenny Robertson | Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Co-ordinator |
| Roy Robertson | Professor of Addiction Medicine |
| Colan Robinson | Teaching Fellow |
| Layla Robinson | Partnership and Engagement Manager (ACRC) |
| Alison Rodger | Professor of Infectious Diseases & HIV |
| Aryelly Rodriguez | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Alix Rolfe | Year Director |
| Neneh Rowa-Dewar | Co-Director (MPH online) , Director of Quality DMGPHS. |
| Igor Rudan | Professor of International Health and Molecular Medicine |
| Dermot Ryan | Honorary Clinical Fellow |
| Brenda Saetta | Usher Institute Secretary |
| Amanda Sammarco | Communications and Finance Officer |
| Matt Sanders | Technologist (C1) (PAO - IT) |
| Gillian Scott | Trial Manager |
| Stephanie Scott | Project Administrator |
| Nayha Sethi | Chancellor's Fellow |
| (Syed) Ahmar Shah | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Rona Sharp | Research Manager |
| Katie Shaw | Senior Lecturer |
| Shane Sheehan | Research Fellow |
| Aziz Sheikh | Professor of Primary Care Research and Development |
| Xia Shen | Honorary Fellow |
| Susan D Shenkin | Reader, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Consultant, NHS Lothian |
| Ting Shi | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Colin Simpson | Honorary Fellow |
| Lorna Sinclair | Teaching Fellow |
| Pamela Sinclair | ECTU Business Manager |
| Vivien Smith | Director of Professional Services, Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
| Karen Sooy | Research Development Advisor |
| Sarah Spence | Teaching Fellow |
| Athina Spiliopoulou | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Devi Sridhar | Professor of Global Public Health |
| Helen Stagg | Reader | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Jacqueline Stephen | Research Fellow |
| David Stevenson | Honorary Fellow |
| Marlene Stewart | Managing Editor Cochrane Peripheral Vascular Diseases Review Group |
| Sarah Stock | Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health |
| Andrew Stoddart | Senior Health Economist |
| Fiona Strachan | IHDP Chief Operating Officer |
| Catherine Sudlow | Professor of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology |
| Holly Sutherland | Research Assistant (C1) (ACAD - Researcher) |
| Julia Swallow | Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Aneeta Sylolypavan | Research Fellow |
| Agnes Tello | Senior Research Development Manager |
| Evropi Theodoratou | Professor of Cancer Epidemiology and Global Health |
| Lorna Thompson | Research Project Administrator |
| Emma Thomson | Administration and Governance Assistant |
| Joyce Thomson | ECTU Chief Operating Officer |
| Mathew Thorpe | Research Assistant |
| Zoe Tieges | Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychology |
| Amy Tilbrook | Dataloch Information Governance Facilitator |
| Katherina Tober | GP Clinical Teacher |
| Claire Tochel | Research Fellow (SCONE) |
| Serena Tricarico | HDR UK Scotland Manager |
| Thanasis Tsanas | Professor of Digital Health and Data Science / Director of Knowledge Exchange and Research Impact |
| Sharon Tuck | Research Fellow |
| Christy Vaughan | Receptionist / Administrative Assistant |
| Tony Wackett | Data Manager |
| Debbie Wake | Clinical Reader in Medical Informatics and Diabetes Care & Education |
| Timothy Walsh | Professor of Critical Care | Director of Innovation for NHS Lothian, and Health Innovation South East Scotland |
| Haoxiang Wang | Honorary Fellow |
| Emma Ward | Trial Manager |
| Jamie Webb | Research Assistant |
| Fiona Wee | Trial Manager |
| Christopher Weir | Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials |
| David Weller | James Mackenzie Professor of General Practice / Programme Co-Director (Master of Family Medicine) |
| Sharon Westwood | ACRC Operations Co-ordinator |
| Christopher White | Assistant Data Manager |
| Lauren White | Research Fellow (Spectrum) |
| Rebecca Whitehorn | Research Administrator |
| Toni Wigglesworth | CMI Administrator (ePrescribing) |
| Sarah Wild | Professor of Epidemiology |
| Linda Williams | Research Fellow |
| Jim Wilson | Professor of Human Genetics |
| Dr Rachael Wood | Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Honorary Reader |
| Lana Woolford | PPI Coordinator (COVID) |
| Mark Woolhouse | Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology |
| Honghan Wu | Visiting researcher |
| Wei Xu | Research Assistant |
| Ingrid Young | Senior Lecturer |
| Huayu Zhang | Research Fellow in Health Data |