Profile
I am a Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the Centre for Evaluation and Methods. I work closely with colleagues in the Centre for Public Health and Policy on projects on smoking cessation and weight management. I am a Chartered Statistician with experience working in both academia and the Civil Service.
Over the years, I have acquired extensive experience of designing and analysing data from both individual and cluster randomised controlled trials. I am also proficient in analysing large datasets from cancer registries, GP records, national surveys, and data from longitudinal cohort studies. I support several clinical trial steering committees as statistician.
Alongside my primary role, I am a Deputy Statistics & Methodology Editor for Addiction and Scientific Advisor for the Medito Foundation.
Publications
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Featured publications
Pesola, F., Rebolj, M., & Sasieni, P. (2023). Managing an extension of screening intervals: Avoiding boom and bust in health care workloads. Int J Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.34441
Pesola, F., Phillips-Waller, A., Przulj, D., Myers Smith, K., & Hajek, P. (2022). Can electronic cigarettes help pregnant smokers quit, and are they as safe to use in pregnancy as nicotine replacement treatments? Clin Transl Med, 12(9), e1064. https://doi.org/10.1002/ctm2.1064
Offman, J., Pesola, F., Fitzgerald, R. C., Hamilton, W., & Sasieni, P. (2022). Impact of Barrett oesophagus diagnoses and endoscopies on oesophageal cancer survival in the UK: A cohort study. Cancer Med, 11(4), 1160-1171. https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.4484
Hajek, P., Phillips-Waller, A., Przulj, D., Pesola, F., Myers Smith, K., Bisal, N., Li, J., Parrott, S., Sasieni, P., Dawkins, L., Ross, L., Goniewicz, M., Wu, Q., & McRobbie, H. J. (2019). A Randomized Trial of E-Cigarettes versus Nicotine-Replacement Therapy. N Engl J Med, 380(7), 629-637. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1808779
Clark, L. V., Pesola, F., Thomas, J. M., Vergara-Williamson, M., Beynon, M., & White, P. D. (2017). Guided graded exercise self-help plus specialist medical care versus specialist medical care alone for chronic fatigue syndrome (GETSET): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Lancet, 390(10092), 363-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)32589-2
