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 |
| Imad Adamestam | Clinical Trial Statistician |
| Davies Adeloye | Research Fellow |
| Amanda Amos | Emeritus Professor of Health Promotion |
| Lynn Anderson | Project Administrator | PPI Coordinator |
| Niall Anderson | Programme Co-Director (Master of Public Health - Full-time, Online) / Programme Deputy Director (M.Sc. in Epidemiology - online) |
| Liz Anderson-Whymark | Institute Administrator for ILE |
| Ruth Armstrong | Data Processing Officer |
| Rachael Atherton | Project Administrator |
| Katie Atkins | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Selina Bairami | Personal Assistant to Professor David Weller |
| Dominique Balharry | Global Respiratory Health Research Manager |
| Kasia Banas | Undergraduate Talent Lead and Programme Director |
| Claire Battison | Trial Manager |
| Linda Bauld | Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health |
| Mairead Bermingham | Senior Teaching Fellow and Dissertation Coordinator |
| Miguel O. Bernabeu | Deputy Director and Director of Research, Bayes Centre | Senior Lecturer, Usher Institute |
| Gayle Beveridge | Trial Manager |
| Raj Bhopal | Emeritus Professor of Public Health |
| Annemieke Bikker | Teaching Fellow MPH online |
| Joanne Blair-Gray | Personal Assistant to the Director of the Usher Institute |
| Matt Bouamrane | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Julia Boyd | Senior Trial Manager |
| Kirsty Boyd | Reader in Palliative Care |
| Nicola Boydell | THIS Fellowship |
| Bridget Bradley | MBChB Curriculum Developer |
| Dr David P Breen | Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Neurologist |
| Kate Britton | Usher Operations Manager |
| Cathryn Broderick | Assistant Managing Editor |
| Laura Brook | Administrative Assistant |
| Norma Brown | Financial Assistant |
| Susan Buckingham | Communications and Engagement Manager |
| Alistair Bullen | Research Assistant (Health Economics) |
| Jacqui Calder | Trial Assistant |
| Christine Campbell | Reader |
| Christine Campbell | Clinical Trials Administrator |
| Harry Campbell | Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health |
| Anne Canny | Research Fellow in Palliative Care |
| Mireille Captieux | Clinical Research Fellow |
| Dawn Cattanach | Graphic designer and KE assistant |
| Debbie Cavers | Research Fellow |
| Kit Chan | Reader/ Chancellor's Fellow |
| Sarah Chan | Reader/ Chancellor's Fellow |
| Francesca Chappell | Senior Statistician |
| Fiona Clark | Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme (IHDP) Partnership Co-ordinator |
| Jess Conway | Communications and Digital Engagement Officer |
| Denise Cranley | Trial Manager |
| Gina Cranswick | Trial Team Manager (Operational) |
| Kathrin Cresswell | Senior Lecturer | Chief Scientist Office Chancellor’s Fellow |
| 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 |
| Luke Daines | Clinical Teaching 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 |
| Nick Denholm | BREATHE Project Manager, Strategic Partnerships |
| Lisa Derr | Trial Manager |
| Jennifer Devlin | Research Nurse |
| Katharina Diernberger | Research Fellow in Health Economics |
| Maria Dlugolecka-Graham | Honorary Fellow |
| Fiona Dobbie | Senior Research Fellow |
| Annemarie Docherty | Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship |
| Kathy Dodworth | Research Assistant |
| Magdalena Domarus | Clinical Support Worker |
| Eddie Donaghy | Research Fellow |
| Hang Dong | Research Fellow |
| Margaret Douglas | Programme Coordinator, Master of Public Health on-campus |
| Dr Thomas Drake | |
| Tim Duncan | Senior Software Developer |
| Helen Eborall | Lecturer in Critical Public Health |
| Lowell Edgar | Research Fellow |
| Morag Edwards | RESPIRE Project Administrator |
| Stuart Edwardson | Clinical Research Fellow |
| Conor Egan | Research Assistant |
| Holly Ennis | Trial Manager |
| Hannah Ensor | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Sonja Erikainen | Research Fellow |
| 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 |
| Cameron Fairfield | Clinical Research Fellow |
| Karen Fairhurst | Senior Clinical Lecturer |
| James Farrell | Data Analyst |
| Candida Fenton | Information Specialist/Systematic Review Methodologist, Cochrane Vascular Group |
| Amy Ferguson | Postdocotoral Research Fellow in Statistical Genetics |
| Kaye Ferguson | Trial Management Support Officer |
| Jonine Figueroa | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Simon Finnigan | PA to Harry Campbell / Usher Administrative Secretary |
| Robin Flaig | Chief Operations Officer, Generation Scotland |
| Kelly Fleetwood | Statistician |
| Mary Flook | Research Fellow in Epidemiology |
| Andrea Ford | Research Fellow Beyond Disease |
| Laura Forsyth | Trial Manager |
| Gerry Fowkes | Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology |
| Professor 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 |
| Rosemary Geddes | Programme Co-Director (Master of Public Health online) |
| Sebastien Georges | Postgraduate Research Support Officer |
| Maria Georgiou | Project Manager |
| Lorna Gibson | Clinical Research Fellow |
| John Gillies | Honorary Professor | Senior Adviser Global Health Academy | Co-Director University of Edinburgh Compassion Initiative |
| Laura Gonzalez Rienda | Research Administrator |
| Su Goopy | Lecturer |
| 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 |
| Bruce Guthrie | Professor of General Practice |
| Fasih Haider | Research Fellow |
| Nynke Halbesma | Research Fellow |
| Vicky Hammersley | IMP2ART Programme Manager / Research Fellow – Allergy and Respiratory Research Group |
| Jeni Harden | Senior Lecturer |
| David Hardman | Research Fellow |
| Ronnie Harkess | Senior Software Developer |
| Ewen Harrison | Personal Chair of Surgery and Data Science |
| Kathy Harrison | DDI Programme Lead |
| Michelle Hart | E-learning and Online Community Business Manager (Master of Family Medicine) |
| Ruth Hart | Research Fellow |
| Louise Hartley | Research Administrator |
| Lewis Hazlett | Administration Assistant: Modern Apprentice |
| Emily Healy | Research Administrator |
| Lorna Heaney | Communications and Events Administrative Officer |
| Catherine Heeney | Research Fellow |
| David Henderson | Quantitative Research Fellow |
| Anna Heye | Trial Manager |
| Iris Ho | Systematic Reviewer |
| Jo Hockley | Research Fellow |
| Prema Howard | Marketing Coordinator |
| Huayi Huang | Research Fellow - Qualitative |
| Aidan Hutchison | Database Designer, Developer and Consultant |
| Andrii Iakovliev | Research Fellow (informatician/software Developer) |
| Wendy Inglis Humphrey | Research Manager |
| Sîan Irvine | Trial Management Support Officer |
| Caroline Jackson | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Tracy Jackson | Senior Research Fellow, Patient and Public Involvement Lead |
| Claire Jankowska | Communications & Digital Engagement Officer |
| Shireen Jawas | PA to Sarah Cunningham-Burley |
| Angus Joshi | Research Assistant |
| Peter Joshi | Honorary Fellow |
| Reiko Kanazawa | Research Fellow |
| Aileen Keel | Director, Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme / Honorary Professor |
| Catriona Keerie | Senior Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Markéta Keller | Supervisor/ Academic Tutor |
| Katherine Kentistou | MRC Research Fellow |
| Barbara Kimbell | Research Fellow |
| Dorothea Kimenai | Research Fellow |
| Elaine Kinsella | Trial Manager |
| Theresa Kirkpatrick | Project Coordinator |
| Amir Kirolos | Honorary Clinical Fellow (and Public Health Speciality Registrar, NHS Lothian) |
| Liz Lamb | Senior Secretary |
| Stephen Lavenberg | Service Manager |
| David Lawrence | Research Fellow: Beyond Bodies |
| Julia Lawton | Professor of Health and Social Science |
| Robert Lee | Senior Statistician |
| Rebecca Lees | CMI Administrator |
| Elizabeth Lemmon | Research Fellow in Health Economics |
| Sharon Levy | CPD Lead Data Driven Innovation Talent Team |
| Katherine Lewis | Trial Management Support Officer |
| Steff Lewis | Professor of Medical Statistics |
| You Li | Research Fellow |
| Ai Lim | RESPIRE Programme Coordinator |
| Chun Lin | Data Analyst |
| Gabriella Linning | Communications and Engagement Officer |
| Nazir Lone | Clinical Senior Lecturer in Critical Care |
| Lu Lu | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| Saturnino Luz | Reader |
| Alix Macdonald | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Calum Macdonald | Data Analyst |
| Margaret MacDougall | Medical Statistician and Researcher in Education |
| Morag MacLean | Senior Trial Manager |
| Julie MacMillan | Research Governance / HR Administrator |
| Clare MacRae | MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow |
| Stephen Malden | Research Fellow Academic Research |
| 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 | 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 |
| Kris McGill | Systematic Reviewer |
| Lynne McGillivray | ECTU Administrator |
| Paul McKeigue | Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics |
| Brian McKinstry | Emeritus Professor of Primary Care E-Health |
| Susannah McLean | Research Fellow |
| Ruth McQuillan | Co-Lead UNCOVER (Usher Network for COVID Evidence Reviews), Programme Co-Director (Master of Integrated Global Health - online), Senior Lecturer |
| Emilie Mcswiggan | UNCOVER Project Manager |
| Gillian Mead | Chair 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 |
| Laura Miller | Finance Assistant |
| Martine Miller | Research Fellow |
| Nicholas Mills | Chair of Cardiology, Butler BHF Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Consultant Cardiologist |
| Garry Milne | Software Developer |
| Lynsey Milne | Assistant Data Manager |
| Mary Monaghan | Research Nurse |
| Andrew Morris | Chair of Medicine / Vice-Principal Data Science |
| Ailsa Morrison | Finance Administrator |
| Sarah Morton | Honorary Fellow |
| Mome Mukherjee | Senior Research Fellow |
| Rachel Mulholland | BREATHE Hub Data Analyst |
| Charlotte Munden | Postgraduate Administrator |
| Lauren Murdoch | Trial Management Support Officer |
| 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 |
| Emma Nance | Academic Fellow in General Practice |
| Clifford Nangle | Data Linkage Officer |
| Aileen Neilson | Senior Health Economist |
| Mia Nelson | Research Fellow |
| Suzanne Newall | Programme Administrator |
| Kristin Nicodemus | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Angela Niven | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Lisa Norman | Research Assistant in Surgical Informatics |
| John Norrie | Professor of Medical Statistics and Trial Methodology / Director of Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit |
| Bright Nwaru | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Kat Oatey | Trial Manager |
| David Obree | Archie Duncan Fellow in Medical Ethics and Fellow in Medical Education |
| Claudia Pagliari | Senior Lecturer in Primary Care and Informatics / Programme Co-Director (MSc Global eHealth) |
| Steph Panol | Programme Administrator |
| Claire Parker | Project Administrator and Personal Assistant to Professor Harish Nair |
| Richard Parker | Senior Statistician |
| Alex Peden | Senior Research Strategy Manager |
| Martyn Pickersgill | Personal Chair of the Sociology of Science and Medicine |
| Hilary Pinnock | Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine |
| Riinu Pius (Ots) | Senior Data Manager |
| Steve Platt | Emeritus Professor of Health Policy Research |
| Evgeniya Plotnikova | Teaching Fellow (online) |
| Senja Pollak | Research Fellow |
| Roz Pollock | Clinical Trial Statistician |
| Rosemary Porteous | ODL Programme Administrator (Master of Public Health – online) |
| Jackie Price | Professor of Molecular Epidemiology |
| Regina Prigge | Statistician / Epidemiologist |
| Jan Pringle | Research Fellow (Systematic reviewing expertise) |
| Carys Pugh | ACRC Quantitative analyst/Statistician |
| Robin Ramsay | Programme Coordinator (Master of Family Medicine) |
| David Rankin | Research Fellow |
| Phillip Rayson | Assistant Trial Manager |
| Jessica Rees | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Natalia Reglinska-Matveyev | Research & Operations Manager |
| Johanna Reilly | Academic Fellow in General Practice |
| Jayne Richards | Personal Assistant to Professor Bruce Guthrie and Professor Stewart Mercer |
| Jenny Robertson | Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Co-ordinator |
| Roy Robertson | Professor of Addiction Medicine |
| Layla Robinson | Partnership and Engagement Manager (ACRC) |
| Alison Rodger | Professor of Infectious Diseases & HIV |
| Czeysy Pataro Rodrigues | Senior Software Developer |
| Aryelly Rodriguez | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| 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 |
| Gillian Scott | Trial Manager |
| Stephanie Scott | Project Administrator |
| Nayha Sethi | Chancellor's Fellow |
| (Syed) Ahmar Shah | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Katie Shaw | Senior Lecturer |
| Shane Sheehan | Research Fellow |
| Aziz Sheikh | Chair of Primary Care Research and Development |
| Xia Shen | Honorary Fellow |
| Susan D Shenkin | Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Consultant, NHS Lothian |
| Chris Sheridan | eLearning Co-ordinator for MSc Clinical Trials |
| Ting Shi | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Colin Simpson | Honorary Fellow |
| Lesley Sinclair | Research Fellow/Trial Manager |
| Pamela Sinclair | Business Manager |
| Rachel Slaski | Deanery Finance Manager |
| Caroline Smith | Judith Mackay Research Fellow |
| Vivien Smith | Director of Professional Services, Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
| Karen Sooy | Research Development Advisor |
| Athina Spiliopoulou | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Devi Sridhar | Professor of Global Public Health |
| Helen Stagg | Reader | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Jacqueline Stephen | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Michelle Steven | Data Manager |
| David Stevenson | Honorary Fellow |
| Marlene Stewart | Managing Editor Cochrane Peripheral Vascular Diseases Review Group |
| Sarah Stock | Reader | Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellow |
| Andrew Stoddart | Senior Health Economist |
| Catherine Sudlow | Personal Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology |
| Julia Swallow | Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Evropi Theodoratou | Personal Chair of Cancer Epidemiology and Global Health |
| Lorna Thompson | Research Project Administrator |
| Emma Thomson | Administration and Governance Assistant |
| Mathew Thorpe | Research Assistant |
| Amy Tilbrook | Dataloch Information Governance Facilitator |
| Katherina Tober | GP Clinical Teacher |
| Claire Tochel | Research Fellow (SCONE) |
| Rosemary Townsend | ECAT SCREDS Clinical Lecturer| Honorary StR in Obstetrics & Gynaecology |
| Serena Tricarico | Research Manager |
| Thanasis Tsanas | Senior Lecturer |
| Sharon Tuck | Clinical Trials Statistician |
| Bram van Bunnik | Research Fellow |
| Tony Wackett | Assistant Data Manager |
| Gemma Wagstaff-Tang | BREATHE Hub Administrator |
| Debbie Wake | Clinical Reader in Medical Informatics and Diabetes Care & Education |
| Haoxiang Wang | Honorary Fellow |
| Emma Ward | Trial Manager |
| Bryan Wee | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| 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) |
| Christopher White | Trial Management Support Officer |
| Lauren White | Research Fellow (Spectrum) |
| Toni Wigglesworth | CMI Administrator (ePrescribing) |
| Sarah Wild | Professor of Epidemiology |
| Tim Wilkinson | Clinical Lecturer |
| Linda Williams | Senior Statistician |
| Jim Wilson | Professor of Human Genetics |
| 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 | Chancellor's Fellow |
| Robert Young | Academic Track Lecturer (Zhejiang) |
| Huayu Zhang | Research Fellow in Health Data |