Usher Institute staff
All academic, research and professional services staff from across the Usher Institute.
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Medical Informatics - staff list
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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 | Centre Administrator, Centre for Population Health Sciences |
| Niall Anderson | Senior Lecturer | Programme Co-Director (Master of Public Health - Full-time, Online) | Programme Deputy Director (M.Sc. in Epidemiology - online) |
| Stella Arakelyan | Research Fellow |
| Liliana Arias Urueña | Research Fellow |
| Ruth Armstrong | Assistant Data Manager |
| Katie Atkins | Chancellor's Fellow & Reader |
| Marek Atter | Research Fellow in Health Economics |
| Karolina Bajbuz | Programme Administrator |
| 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 | Co-Head of Centre for Population Health Sciences |
| 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 |
| Emma Birley | Research Assistant (UNCOVER) |
| Joanne Blair-Gray | Personal Assistant to the Director of the Usher Institute |
| Brittany Blankinship | Lecturer in Data Science |
| Matt Bouamrane | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Julia Boyd | Senior Trial Manager |
| Kirsty Boyd | Reader in Palliative Care |
| Nicola Boydell | THIS Fellow |
| Amanda Bradburn | Communications and Finance Officer |
| Dr David P Breen | Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Neurologist |
| Anny Briola | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Kate Britton | Usher Operations Manager |
| Cathryn Broderick | Systematic Review Methodologist |
| David Buchanan | Data Analyst / Software Developer |
| Susan Buckingham | Communications and Engagement Manager |
| Alistair Bullen | Research Assistant (Health Economics) |
| Jacqui Calder | Trial Assistant |
| Clara Calvert | Chancellor's Fellow in Global Challenges |
| Malcolm Cameron | Research Assistant |
| Christine Campbell | Reader |
| Dawn Campbell | Administrative Secretary |
| Harry Campbell | Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health |
| Kirsteen Campbell | Communications and Engagement Officer, UK LLC |
| 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 | Chancellor's Fellow & Reader |
| Sarah Chan | Reader/ Chancellor's Fellow |
| Fiona Clark | Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme (IHDP) Partnership Co-ordinator |
| Neil Clark | Senior Data Manager (maternity cover) |
| Gareth Clegg | Senior Clinical Lecturer |
| Jess Conway | Communications and Digital Engagement Officer |
| Lucy Courage | Programme Administrator |
| Denise Cranley | Trial Manager |
| Gina Cranswick | Senior Trial Team Manager |
| Kathrin Cresswell | Senior Lecturer |
| 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 Edinburgh BioQuarter) |
| Karen Dawson | Personal Assistant to Professor Andrew Morris |
| Giulia De Togni | Research Fellow |
| Afshan Dean | Programme Manager (MSc Clinical Trials online) |
| Lisa Derr | Trial Manager |
| Lorna Dewar | Trial Manager |
| 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 |
| Agata Dunsmore | Clinical Teacher |
| Helen Eborall | Lecturer in Critical Public Health |
| Morag Edwards | RESPIRE Project Administrator |
| Sarah Elliot | Research Assistant |
| Hannah Ensor | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Christine Evans | Programme Deputy Director, On Campus MPH |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Simon Finnigan | Usher Administrative Secretary |
| Robin Flaig | Chief Operations Officer, Generation Scotland |
| Kelly Fleetwood | Statistician |
| Kitty Flynn | Communications, Marketing and Engagement Officer |
| Andrea Ford | Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society: Beyond Disease |
| Joana Formosinho | Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Paula Grieve | Finance Administrator |
| David Griffith | Reader |
| Bruce Guthrie | Professor of General Practice |
| Fasih Haider | Postdoctoral Data Analyst |
| Nynke Halbesma | Programme Co-Director online MPH |
| Gregor Hall | AIM-CISC Administrator |
| Peter Hall | Reader in Cancer Informatics and Health Economics |
| 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, Head of Centre for Medical Informatics |
| Kathy Harrison | Dataloch Programme Lead |
| Marcus Harrison | Director of Strategic Delivery & Partnerships, Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation Programme |
| Michelle Hart | Deputy Teaching Manager / Digital Education Manager |
| Ruth Hart | Research Fellow |
| Jane Hartley | Programme Coordinator Global Health Challenges |
| Louise Hartley | Programme Coordinator (ACRC) |
| Grace Harvey | Trial Management Support Officer |
| Sara Hatam | Data Analyst |
| Lewis Hazlett | HR Administration Assistant |
| Emily Healy | Senior Research Administrator |
| David Henderson | Quantitative Research Fellow |
| Anna Heye | Trial Manager |
| Susan Hinder | Research Fellow |
| Iris Ho | Systematic Reviewer |
| Dr Leonard Ho | Systematic Reviewer (ACRC) |
| Dr Samuel Hoare | Teaching Fellow, Master of Public Health (online and on campus) |
| Jo Hockley | Research Fellow |
| Prema Howard | Marketing Lead (PGT) |
| Huayi Huang | Research Fellow - Qualitative |
| 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 |
| Elli Johnston | Administrative Assistant |
| Peter Joshi | Honorary Fellow |
| Vasilia Kakamouka | Research Finance & Business Support Manager |
| Natalia Kapralova | Lecturer (Leading Digital Transformation in Health and Care) |
| Aileen Keel | Honorary Professor |
| Catriona Keerie | Assistant Statistical Director (Commercial) |
| Markéta Keller | Teaching Fellow |
| Sebastien Kenmoe | Research Fellow |
| Titouan Kennel | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Katherine Kentistou | MRC Research Fellow |
| Steven Kerr | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Theresa Kirkpatrick | Project Coordinator |
| Amir Kirolos | Honorary Clinical Fellow (and Public Health Speciality Registrar, NHS Lothian) |
| Diane Lac | Project Coordinator |
| 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 |
| Hannah Lepper | Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling |
| 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 |
| Chris Linsley | Data Manager |
| Debby Lipschutz | Postdoctoral Genetic Epidemiologist |
| Nazir Lone | Reader |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Magdalena Mazurczak | Finance 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) |
| Stewart Mercer | Professor of Primary Care and Multimorbidity |
| Ines Mesa Eguiagaray | Statistical Geneticist |
| 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 |
| Andrew Morris | Professor of Medicine / Vice-Principal Data Science |
| Ailsa Morrison | Finance Administrator |
| Sarah Morton | Honorary 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, Co-Head of Centre for Global Health |
| Aileen Neilson | Senior Health Economist |
| Mia Nelson | Research Fellow |
| Matt Newlands | Programme Administrator |
| Lauren Ng | SCREDS Clinical Lecturer in General Practice & Primary Care |
| Kristin Nicodemus | Chancellor's Fellow / Senior Lecturer |
| Angela Niven | Project Manager / Senior Research Fellow |
| 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 |
| Richard Parker | Senior Research Fellow |
| Sarah Parkin | Finance Administrator |
| Karissa Robyn Patton | Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society |
| Alex Peden | Senior Research Strategy Manager |
| Rose Penfold | Research Fellow: Wellcome |
| 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 |
| Karen Ponder | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Rosemary Porteous | ODL Programme Administrator (Master of Public Health – online) |
| Stephen Powell | Data Acquisition Manager |
| Jackie Price | Professor of Molecular Epidemiology |
| Regina Prigge | Research Fellow |
| 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 |
| Stella Rhode | Research Assistant |
| Jayne Richards | Personal Assistant to Professor Bruce Guthrie and Professor Stewart Mercer |
| Hannah Rickman | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Roy Robertson | Professor of Addiction Medicine |
| Colan Robinson | Teaching Fellow |
| 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, Co-Head of Centre for Global Health |
| Dermot Ryan | Honorary Clinical Fellow |
| Brenda Saetta | Usher Institute Secretary |
| Matt Sanders | Technologist (C1) (PAO - IT) |
| Stina Saunders | Postdoc Data Analyst |
| Gillian Scott | Trial Manager |
| Stephanie Scott | Project Administrator |
| Nayha Sethi | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Rebecca Sewell | Programme Administrator |
| (Syed) Ahmar Shah | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Jenny Sharma | Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Co-ordinator |
| Sonia Sharma | Trial Management Support Officer |
| 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 |
| Jean Skelton | Project Coordinator |
| Dominika Skrocka | Project Coordinator / Senior Research Administrator (SALFS) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kieran Sweeney | Academic Fellow in General Practice |
| Aneeta Sylolypavan | Research Fellow |
| Agnes Tello | Senior Research Development Manager |
| Evropi Theodoratou | Professor of Cancer Epidemiology and Global Health |
| Lorna Thompson | Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society Administrator / Research Project Administrator |
| Emma Thomson | Administration and Governance Assistant |
| Joyce Thomson | ECTU Chief Operating Officer |
| Mathew Thorpe | Research Assistant |
| Holly Tibble | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Amy Tilbrook | Dataloch Information Governance Facilitator |
| Katherina Tober | GP Clinical Teacher |
| Claire Tochel | Research Fellow (SCONE) |
| Tricia Tooman | ACRC Research Fellow |
| Serena Tricarico | HDR UK Scotland Manager |
| Thanasis Tsanas | Professor of Digital Health and Data Science / Director of Knowledge Exchange and Research Impact |
| Kevin Tsang | Teaching Fellow |
| Sharon Tuck | Research Fellow |
| Christy Vaughan | Receptionist / Administrative Assistant |
| Amanda Vettini | Research Fellow |
| Tony Wackett | Data Management & Programming Architect |
| Jennifer Waddell | Trial 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 |
| Alison Webb | Student Adviser |
| Fiona Wee | Trial Manager |
| Christopher Weir | Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials |
| Emily Weiss | Course Tutor - Online Distance Learning |
| David Weller | James Mackenzie Professor of General Practice | Programme Co-Director (Master of Family Medicine) | Co-Head of Centre for Population Health Sciences |
| 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 |
| Adele Willoughby | Programme Administrator |
| Jim Wilson | Professor of Human Genetics |
| Kevin Wing | Lecturer In Epidemiology |
| Dr Rachael Wood | Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Honorary Reader |
| 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 Research |