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Professor Beth Stuart

Beth

Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials Director of the Pragmatic Trials Unit

Email: b.l.stuart@qmul.ac.uk

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I am a medical statistician with many years of experience designing and delivering clinical trials nationally and internationally.  In my role as Director of the Pragmatic Trials Unit, I am responsible for providing leadership of the unit and ensuring that we deliver a portfolio of high-quality studies that change clinical practice.  

My career started in the Primary Care Research Centre in Southampton, working closely with clinicians to design clinical trials and large observational cohort studies, and then leading on their analysis and interpretation.  I have also worked at the Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, as co-lead for the Statistics Group and Scientific Lead for all non-Cancer studies – primarily focusing on studies in primary care, mental health and surgery.  I have been the statistical lead on over £30 million in funding applications and co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles. 

In my role at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, I continue my interest in clinical trials in primary care and the community.  I work collaboratively with researchers to develop their research questions into fundable and deliverable trials for a range of fundings including NIHR, UKRI and charitable organisations.  I am also Chair of the UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network, helping the dermatology community design high-quality independent clinical trials and supporting capacity building to train the next generation of researchers. 

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