Usher Institute staff
All academic, research and professional services staff from across the Usher Institute.
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Medical Informatics - staff list
Population Health Sciences - staff list
Full Usher Institute staff list
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role |
|---|---|
| Luciana D'Adderio | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Shima Abdullateef | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Purva Abhyankar | Senior Research Fellow (FRESHAIR4Life) |
| Marta Adamczyk | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Imad Adamestam | Clinical Trial Statistician |
| Lorraine Adamson | Clinical Trials Administrator |
| Tahira Akbar | Service Manager |
| Naseerah Akooji | Statistician |
| Fatima Almaghrabi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Lynn Anderson | Centre Administrator, Centre for Population Health Sciences | Personal Assistant to Professor David Weller |
| Niall Anderson | Senior Lecturer | Programme Co-Director (Master of Public Health - Full-time, Online) | Programme Deputy Director (M.Sc. in Epidemiology - online) |
| Sam Andres | Research Annotator |
| Stella Arakelyan | Research Fellow |
| Liliana Arias Urueña | Research Fellow |
| Ruth Armstrong | Data Manager |
| Thulani Ashcroft | Teaching Fellow, UNCOVER Project Manager |
| Sophie Atherton | Research Fellow |
| 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 | Co-Director of Students for Deanery of Molecular Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
| 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 |
| Sara Bea | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow |
| 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 |
| William Berthon | Biostatistician / Epidemiologist / Health Data Scientist |
| Gayle Beveridge | Trial Manager |
| Emma Birley | Research Assistant (UNCOVER) |
| Lottie Bishop-Hurman | Data Analyst – Data Enabled Clinical Trials |
| Joanne Blair-Gray | Personal Assistant to the Director of the Usher Institute |
| Brittany Blankinship | Lecturer in Data Science |
| Jenny Bos | Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Manager |
| Matt Bouamrane | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Julia Boyd | Senior Trial Manager |
| Kirsty Boyd | Reader in Palliative Care |
| Nicola Boydell | Lecturer in Social Science and Public Health |
| Amanda Bradburn | Communications and Finance Officer |
| Dr David P Breen | Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Neurologist |
| Corinna Bremer | Operations Coordinator |
| Anny Briola | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Kate Britton | Usher Operations Manager |
| Cathryn Broderick | Systematic Review Methodologist |
| David Buchanan | Data Analyst / Software Developer |
| Susan Buckingham | Head of Communications, Marketing and Engagement |
| Jacqui Calder | Trial Assistant |
| Clara Calvert | Chancellor's Fellow in Global Challenges |
| Malcolm Cameron | Research Assistant |
| Christine Campbell | Reader |
| Dawn Campbell | Personal Assistant to Professor Tim Walsh | Administrative Secretary |
| Harry Campbell | Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health |
| Kirsteen Campbell | Communications and Engagement Officer, UK LLC |
| Arlene Casey | Research Fellow in Health Data Research |
| Andrew Castle | Open Research Administrator |
| Dawn Cattanach | Graphic designer |
| Debbie Cavers | Research Fellow |
| Bran Cervenak | Institute Facilities Manager |
| Kit Chan | Chancellor's Fellow & Reader |
| Sarah Chan | Reader/ Chancellor's Fellow |
| Sam Chase | Programme Administrator |
| Stephanie Cholbi | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Amy Chong | Data Analyst |
| Neil Clark | Data Analyst |
| Gareth Clegg | Senior Clinical Lecturer |
| Mia Closs | Research Fellow |
| Jess Conway | Communications and Engagement Officer (currently on secondment to Press Office) |
| Lucy Courage | Programme Administrator |
| Lauren Craig | Trial Manager |
| Shona Craik | Trial Management Support Officer |
| Denise Cranley | Trial Manager |
| Gina Cranswick | Senior Trial Team Manager |
| Anna Crawford | Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Officer |
| 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 | Reader |
| Iwona Czerwinska | Programme Coordinator |
| Kenton D'Mellow | Data Management & Programming Team Lead |
| Luke Daines | Clinical Research Fellow |
| Julie Davidson | Institute Administrator |
| Karen Dawson | Personal Assistant to Professor Andrew Morris |
| Giulia De Togni | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Afshan Dean | Programme Manager (MSc Clinical Trials online) |
| Lisa Derr | Senior Trial Manager - Start-up Specialist |
| Lorna Dewar | Trial Manager |
| Lynn Dinsmore | Trial Manager |
| Rachel Dlugatch | Research Fellow (Qualitative) |
| Fiona Dobbie | Senior Lecturer in Public Health |
| 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 |
| Karolína Dušková | Group Administrator |
| Helen Eborall | Senior Lecturer |
| Morag Edwards | RESPIRE Operations Coordinator |
| Sarah Elliot | Research Assistant |
| Romain Enjalbert | Research Fellow |
| Hannah Ensor | Research Fellow |
| Buddhi Erabadda | Research Fellow (Software Engineer / Machine Learning Scientist) |
| 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 | Professor of Student Learning in Primary Care |
| 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 |
| Robin Flaig | Chief Operations Officer, Generation Scotland |
| Kelly Fleetwood | Statistician |
| Monica Fletcher | Honorary Research Fellow |
| 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 |
| Mavis Frempong | Learning Designer |
| Helen Frost | Research Fellow (ACRC) |
| Neil Gallacher | GP Clinical Teacher |
| Jaime Garcia Iglesias | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Lesley Gardner | Personal Assistant to Professor Sarah Wild |
| Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril | Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society |
| Ylenia Giarratano | Research Fellow (C1) (ACAD - Researcher) |
| James Gibson | Lecturer |
| Annabel Giddings | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Hannah Glasser | Project Administrator |
| Pauline Golding | Teaching Fellow - MPH (online) |
| Sarah Golightly | Postgraduate Research Support Officer |
| 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 | Research Finance & Business Support Manager |
| David Griffith | Reader |
| Bruce Guthrie | Professor of General Practice |
| Nynke Halbesma | Programme Co-Director online MPH | Co-Director of Students for Deanery of Molecular Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
| Gregor Hall | AIM-CISC Administrator |
| Vicky Hammersley | IMP2ART Programme Manager / Research Fellow – Allergy and Respiratory Research Group |
| Jeni Harden | Reader |
| Maureen Harding | Administrative Secretary |
| Stephanie Hardley | Teaching Fellow |
| 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 |
| Michelle Hart | Deputy Teaching Manager / Digital Education Manager |
| Ruth Hart | Research Fellow |
| Louise Hartley | Programme Coordinator (ACRC) |
| Sara Hatam | Data Scientist |
| Raza Hayat | Trial Management Support Officer |
| Emily Healy | Senior Research Administrator |
| David Henderson | Quantitative Research Fellow |
| Anna Heye | Trial Manager |
| Susan Hinder | Research Fellow |
| Dr Leonard Ho | Visiting Researcher (ACRC) |
| Dr Samuel Hoare | Teaching Fellow, Master of Public Health (online and on campus) |
| Mike Holder | Academic Fellow in General Practice |
| Prema Howard | Marketing and Recruitment Lead (PGT) |
| Huayi Huang | Research Fellow (Qualitative) |
| Colleen Hubbard | Partner Engagment and Marketing Lead - Health and Social Care Data Driven Innovation |
| Daria Ihnatenko | Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Co-ordinator (Maternity Cover) |
| Wendy Inglis Humphrey | Chief Operating Officer (Digital and Respiratory Research) |
| Karen Innes | Senior Trial Manager - start up specialist |
| Sian Irvine | Trial Manager |
| Julie Jacko | Chair of Health Informatics and Data Science and Co-Head of Centre for Medical Informatics |
| Caroline Jackson | Chancellor's Fellow / Senior Lecturer |
| Tracy Jackson | Senior Research Fellow, Patient and Public Involvement Lead |
| Claire Jankowska | Communications and Engagement Officer |
| Malihe Javidi | Research Fellow on Computer Vision in Medicine |
| Karen Jeffrey | Research Fellow |
| Elli Johnston | Administrative Assistant |
| 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 |
| Emma Kinley | PPI Research Fellow |
| Theresa Kirkpatrick | Project Coordinator |
| Julia Lawton | Professor of Health and Social Science |
| Chase Ledin | Lecturer in Social Science and Medicine |
| 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 |
| Chris Linsley | Data Manager |
| Rachel Locherty | Trial Manager |
| Nazir Lone | Professor of of Critical Care and Epidemiology |
| Rachael Lowe | Global Cleft Lip & Palate Research Programme Coordinator |
| Saturnino Luz | Professor of Digital Biomarkers and Precision Medicine |
| Alix Macdonald | Trial Manager |
| Margaret MacDougall | Medical Statistician and Researcher in Education |
| Lisa MacInnes | Lead Research Nurse |
| Rob Mackie | Communication Officer, ACRC |
| 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 |
| Magdalena Mazurczak | Finance Administrator |
| Sarah McCallum | MPH (Full time) Operations Coordinator |
| Haruno McCartney | Research Assistant |
| 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 |
| 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; ACRC PhD Student |
| 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 |
| Paula Mika | Research Administrator |
| Laura Miller | Finance Assistant |
| Martine Miller | Research Fellow |
| Nicholas Mills | British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology | Consultant Cardiologist | Lead for Data-Driven Innovation in Health and Social Care |
| Garry Milne | Software Developer |
| Lynsey Milne | Data Manager |
| Andrew Morris | Professor of Medicine / Vice-Principal Data Science |
| Ailsa Morrison | Finance Administrator |
| Elaine Mowat | Programme Manager, Leading Digital Transformation in Health and Care for Scotland (LDTS) Programme |
| Charlotte Munden | Postgraduate Administrator |
| Janice Murray | ACRC Partnerships & Communications Manager |
| Sarah Murray | Communications and Engagement Officer |
| Matthew Murrell | Data Analyst |
| Harish Nair | Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health, Co-Head of Centre for Global Health |
| Aileen Neilson | Senior Health Economist |
| Louisa Newbigging | Marketing and Recruitment Lead (Maternity Cover) |
| Matt Newlands | Programme Administrator |
| Lauren Ng | SCREDS Clinical Lecturer in General Practice & Primary Care |
| Yen Culley Nguyen | Internal Periodic Review Coordinator |
| Kristin Nicodemus | Chancellor's Fellow / Senior Lecturer |
| Angela Niven | Project Manager / Senior Research Fellow |
| Erin Noble | Research Assistant |
| Leon Noble | Research Assistant |
| John Norrie | Professor of Medical Statistics and Trial Methodology / Director of Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit |
| Amy Nugent | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Derek O'Sullivan | DataLoch Developer |
| 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 |
| Marian Peacock | Research Fellow (Qualitative) |
| Rose Penfold | Research Fellow: Wellcome |
| 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 |
| Evgeniya Plotnikova | Teaching Fellow (online) / Research Fellow (both part-time) |
| 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 | Medical Statistician; Lecturer in Epidemiology |
| Carys Pugh | ACRC Quantitative analyst/Statistician |
| Lily Quinlan | Research Administrator |
| Reshma Rajagopal | GP Clinical Teacher |
| 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 |
| Aryelly Rodriguez | Research Fellow |
| Neneh Rowa-Dewar | Senior Lecturer | Co-Director (MPH online) | Director of Quality DMGPHS |
| Oscar Rubio Barber | Finance Assistant |
| Igor Rudan | Professor of International Health and Molecular Medicine, Co-Head of Centre for Global Health |
| Brenda Saetta | Usher Institute Secretary |
| Micol Salvetto | Research Fellow |
| Matt Sanders | Technologist (C1) (PAO - IT) |
| Stina Saunders | Postdoc Data Analyst |
| Gillian Scott | Trial Manager |
| Stephanie Scott | Project Administrator |
| Bea Selby | Trial Manager |
| Nayha Sethi | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Rebecca Sewell | Programme Administrator |
| (Syed) Ahmar Shah | Chancellor's Fellow | Senior Research Fellow | Director of Innovation |
| Jenny Sharma | Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Co-ordinator |
| Sonia Sharma | Trial Management Support Officer |
| Katie Shaw | Senior Lecturer |
| Shane Sheehan | Research Fellow |
| Sir Aziz Sheikh | Professor of Primary Care Research and Development |
| Susan D Shenkin | Professor of Healthcare for Older People, Ageing and Health, University of Edinburgh | Honorary Consultant, NHS Lothian |
| Ting Shi | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Anita Shukla | HR Administrative Assistant |
| Lorna Sinclair | Teaching Fellow |
| Pamela Sinclair | ECTU Business Manager |
| Dominika Skrocka | Project Coordinator / Senior Research Administrator (SALFS) |
| Vivien Smith | Director of Professional Services, Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
| Roshini Sooriyarachchi | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Karen Sooy | Research Development Advisor |
| Sarah Spence | Teaching Fellow |
| Athina Spiliopoulou | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Devi Sridhar | Professor of Global Public Health |
| Rachel Stanley | HR Administrative Assistant |
| Theresa Ikegwuonu | Research Fellow |
| Jacqueline Stephen | Senior Statistician |
| Kelly Stewart | Assistant Trial Manager |
| 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 |
| Yuhao Sun | Teaching Assistant / Tutor |
| 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 / Personal Assistant to Professor Devi Sridhar |
| 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 |
| Sharon Tuck | Senior Statistician |
| Elizabeth Varghese | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Christy Vaughan | Receptionist / Administrative Assistant |
| Laia Ventura Garcia | UKRI Guarantee Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Amanda Vettini | Research Fellow |
| Tony Wackett | Data Management & Programming Architect |
| Jennifer Waddell | Trial Manager |
| Tracey Wagner-Rizvi | Research Fellow |
| 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 |
| David Weller | James Mackenzie Professor of General Practice | Programme Co-Director (Master of Family Medicine) | Co-Head of Centre for Population Health Sciences |
| Christopher White | Data Manager - Digitally Enabled Trials |
| Rebecca Whitehorn | Research Administrator |
| Sarah Wild | Professor of Epidemiology |
| Linda Williams | Research Fellow |
| Adele Willoughby | Programme Administrator |
| Jim Wilson | Professor of Human Genetics |
| John Wilson | Teaching Fellow |
| Kevin Wing | Lecturer In Epidemiology |
| Professor Rachael Wood | Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Honorary Professor of Maternal and Child Public Health |
| Mark Woolhouse | Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology |
| Honghan Wu | Visiting researcher |
| Ingrid Young | Senior Lecturer |
| Huayu Zhang | Research Fellow in Health Data Research |