Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit (PCTU)

Unit Director: Beth Stuart

Deputy Director: Tahera Hussain

The Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit is a UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) registered, and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded unit that aims to be at the forefront of the science and execution of pragmatic clinical trials with direct relevance for practice. We work across many different clinical areas but have particular strengths in primary care, bone and joint health, critical care and perioperative medicine, colorectal surgery and psychiatry.

Website: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/pctu/ 

 

KEY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AREAS

The PCTU supports high quality research across many different clinical areas with particular strengths in:

• Primary Care
• Bone and Joint Health
• Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine
• Colorectal Surgery
• Psychiatry

Our methodological research strengths are in the following areas:

• Cluster randomised trials
• Innovative trial design
• Trials within Cohorts (TwiCs)
• Pilot and feasibility studies

Economic Evaluation

• Health Related Quality of Life research
• Health Policy Evaluation

OUR TEAM

Operations

• Tahera Hussain: Head of Operations/Deputy Director
• Sara Gazi: Operations Officer
• Barbara McGee: Finance Administrator

Information Systems and Data Management

• Arouna Woukeu: Head of Information Systems and Data Management
• Amanda Davies: Lead Data Manager
• Kunju Shaji: Database Developer
• Faran Dhaliwal: Data Manager
• Bonnie Anderson: DM Assistant
• Tamara Tougnon: DM Assistant
• Samuel Ede: Database Officer
• Ibilola Higo: Database Officer

Quality Assurance

• Sian Newton: QA Lead
• Tanzina Bhuyan: QA Officer/Monitor
• Vivek Patel: QA Officer/Monitor 
• Tanjil Nawaz: Clinical trial Monitor
• Sawdah Hussain: QA Administrator

Health Economics

• Borislava Mihaylova: Chair in Health Economics
• Esubalew Assefa: Health Economist
• Yan Feng: Reader in Health Economics
• Timothy Jamieson: Health Economist
• Hiro Farabi: Health Economist
• Montasir Ahmed: Health Economist
• Roshni Mangalore: Health Economist
• Chris Roukas: Health Economist
• Veronica Toffolutti: Lecturer in Health Economics
• Florian Tomini: Senior Health Economist
• Runguo Wu: Senior Health Economist

Statistics

• Jo Haviland: Statistics Team Lead, Reader in Medical Statistics
• Clare Relton: Senior Lecturer Clinical Trials
• Claire Chan: Statistician
• Tom Hamborg: Senior Statisticians
• Nadine Marlin: Statistician
• Neil Walker: Senior Statistician
• Clare Robinson: Senior Statistician
• Garima Priyadarshini: Statistician
• Mustapha Wasseja Mohammed: Statistician
• Olivier Quintin: Statistician
• Laetitia de Abreu Nunes: PhD Student
• Fionn Cléirigh-Büttner: Statistician
• Yuk Lam Wong: Statistician
• Charis Xuan Xie: PhD Student
• Saskia Eddy: PhD Student
• Felicity Smith: PhD Student
• Siobhan Titre-Johnson: PhD Student
• Beverley Nickolls: PhD Student

Trial Management

• Ann Thomson: Projects and Strategy Lead (on maternity leave until May 2024)
• Svetlana Milca: Senior Trial Manager
• Isabel Monger: Trial Manager
• Laura Miller: Programme Manager IBD-BOOST
• Helen Wood: Programme Manager CHILL
• Elisha Chung: Trial Manager
• Priyanthi Dias: Clinical Trials and Research Manager
• Philip McNamee: Trial Manager
• Bina Shah: Trial Manager
• Jai Vairale: Trial Manager
• Salma Begum: Trial Co-ordinator
• Kolsuma Begum: Data Assistant
• Imran Khan: Programme Manager
• Agnes Chevalier: Senior Researcher
• Emma Medlicott: Research Assistant
• Aleksandra Matanov: Research Assistant
• Sophie Parker: Trials Assistant
• Harpreet Pawar: Senior Trial Manager
• Jodie Hutchens: Senior Trial Manager (TiLLI)
• Mia Johnson: Trial Manager (BLIPA)
• Ratna Sohanpal: Researcher
• Sandra Jumbe: Research Design Service Adviser
• Eleanor McAlees: Research Assistant (Surgery)

CONTACT

Location: Yvonne Carter Building (1st floor), 58 Turner Street, London E1 2AB

Operations Officer: Sara Gazi s.gazi@qmul.ac.uk