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 |
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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 |