Summary
After completing a Diploma in Biomathematics (University Zittau/Görlitz, Germany, 2008) and an MSc in Medical Statistics (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2009), Nadine spent six months as a statistician at the Medical Research Council GPRF Unit, London, working on a large primary care database in the area of insomnia, cholesterol and depression in pregnancy. She also taught a course on handling missing data for members of the MRC as well as external personal. She joined the Centre for Health Sciences in January 2011.
Research
Research Interests:
Design and setup of (cluster) RCTs, randomisation techniques, treatment of missing data
Recent and ongoing research projects:
- RCT on epilepsy in pregnancy (EMPiRE);
- prospective cohort study for risk prediction of pre-eclampsia in pregnancy (PREP);
- questionnaire study of UK osteopaths’ risk assessment and risk management (CROaM);
- observational cohort study on the impact of the London low emission zone on children’s respiratory health (LEZ);
- methodological research on randomisation techniques
Publications
(2010) Utzinger et al. Microscopic diagnosis of sodium acetate-acetic acid-formalin-fixed stool samples for helminths and intestinal protozoa: a comparison among European reference laboratories. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2010 Mar;16(3):267-73