Akshaykumar PatelStatistician/ NIHR Pre-doctoral FellowEmail: akshaykumar.patel@qmul.ac.ukProfileProfileI am a statistician and NIHR Pre-doctoral Fellow looking to build on my experience and take the necessary steps to becoming an independent senior researcher in clinical trials methodology. After gaining a First Class Honours degree in Mathematics I was awarded a scholarship to complete an MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. After completing my MSc, I began working as an applied trial statistician at the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre, and then moved to Queen Mary University of London where I currently divide my time working between collaborating teams based at the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit (PCTU: www.qmul.ac.uk/pctu) and the Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group (CCPMG: www.qmul.ac.uk/ccpmg).Research