People

We are a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, data managers, study nurses, clinical research assistants, IT and support professionals.

 

Researchers

 
Name Expertise Contact Details

Ned Atiyah

Data Analyst

  • Health economics
  • Stata programming
  • Cancer epidemiology

ned.atiyah@york.ac.uk

Tim Bagguley

Research Fellow

  • Patient reported outcome measures
  • Multilevel modelling of longitudinal data
  • Survival analysis
  • Stata programming

tim.bagguley@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321846

Andre Bedendo De Souza

 Research Associate

  • Epidemiology
  • Cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis
  • Mediation and moderation analysis
  • Machine learning and data science

andre.bedendo@york.ac.uk

 

Matthew Care

Senior Technical Specialist

  • Computational analysis
  • Bioinformatics
  • Applying data science to the understanding of b-cell biology

matthew.care@york.ac.uk

 

 Grace Collum

PhD Student

  • Health inequalities
  • Health outcomes
  • Epidemiology

gic503@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321927

 

Simon Crouch

Associate Professor

  • Statistical modelling of complex epidemiological data
  • Predictive modelling
  • Event history analysis
  • Machine learning & data science

simon.crouch@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321938

Ross Evans

Ross Evans

PhD Student

  • Dietary intake assessment and analysis
  • Physical health needs of those living with and beyond blood cancer
  • Health needs assessments

pml529@york.ac.uk

 


Clare Frobisher

Research Associate

  • Statistical analysis of observational data
  • Epidemiology
  • Survivorship

clare.frobisher@york.ac.uk

Mariya Geneshka

Research Associate

  • Lifecourse epidemiology
  • Social epidemiology
  • Quantitative methods

mariya.geneshka@york.ac.uk

James Godwin

PhD Student

  • Machine learning
  • Precision medicine
  • Causal inference

jg1675@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321927

 

Debra Howell

Deputy Director of ECSG

Professor

  • Patient experiences
  • Qualitative research
  • Care pathways
  • Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE)

debra.howell@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321895

Tom Johnston

Research Fellow

  • Routine health data
  • Global patterns of cancer incidence
  • Infection-related malignancies

tom.johnston@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321888

 

Eleanor Kane

Associate Professor

  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Use of administrative datasets in health research
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

eleanor.kane@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321892

 

Rob Newton

Professor in Clinical Epidemiology

  • Infections and cancer
  • Immune suppression and cancer
  • Cancer in developing countries

robert.newton@york.ac.uk

Dan Painter 

Research Fellow

  • Genetics in cancer pathogenesis
  • Molecular prognostic markers 
  • Complex data handling

daniel.painter@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321897 

Jenny Roche

Data Analyst

  • Epidemiology
  • Stata programming
  • Analysis of observational data
jenny.roche@york.ac.uk

Eve Roman 

Co-Director of ECSG

Professor of Epidemiology

  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Study design
  • Adverse reproductive events
  • Use of routinely collected health data for research purposes

eve.roman@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321882

Rebecca Sheridan

Research Fellow

  • Patient experiences
  • Mixed methods
  • Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE)

rebecca.sheridan@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321079

 

Alex Smith

Co-Director of ECSG

Professor of Cancer Epidemiology

  • Cancer epidemiology 
  • Haematological malignancies
  • Analysis of observational/real-world data

alexandra.smith@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321884 

Adele Taylor

 Research Fellow

  • Statistical analysis of longitudinal data
  • Survival analysis
  • Statistical modelling
adele.taylor@york.ac.uk

 

Lauren Wright

 Research Fellow

  • Statistical analysis of population-based data
  • Epidemiology 
  • Survival analysis

lauren.wright@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321891 

 

    Research Support

 

John Painter-Blase

  

E-learning developer

 

john.blase@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321894

Margaret Briggs

 

Administrator

 

margaret.briggs@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321885

 

Helen Cohen

  

 Research Group Administrator

 

helen.cohen@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321927

 

Ian Cope

  

 Senior Infrastructure Engineer

 

ian.cope@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321886

 

Will Curson

  

 Web Developer / Systems Integrator

 

william.curson@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321887

James Doughty

  

Systems Analyst

  

james.doughty@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321301

 

David Jenkins

  

Research Administrator - Finance

  

d.jenkins@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321893

Vinnette Sinclair

  

Research Administrator - Clinical Data

  

vinnette.sinclair@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321634

 

Anne Thomson

  

Study Administrator - Cellbank 

  

anne.thomson@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321880

 
 

Study Nurses/ Clinical Research Assistants

 

 

David Buchanan

  

Study Nurse

  

david.buchanan@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321885

 

Claire Cameron

  

Study Nurse 

  

claire.cameron@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321885

 

Monica Duffy

  

Clinical Research Assistant

+44 (0)1904 326585

 

Lucy Howard

  

Study Nurse

  

lucy.howard@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321896

 

 

Dawn Jones

  

Clinical Research Assistant

  

dawn.jones@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321885

 

Sue Orange

  

Study Nurse 

  

sue.orange@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321885

 

Catherine Sykes

  

Study Nurse

  

catherine.sykes@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 321885

 

 

Honorary and Visiting Appointments

 

 

Dr. Eline Aas - Honorary Visiting Fellow

Dr John Ashcroft - Visiting Senior Lecturer

Dr James Bailey - Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Dr Sharon Barrans - Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Dr Audrey Bonaventure - Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Professor David Bowen - Honorary Visiting Professor

Dr Cathy Burton - Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Dr Catherine Cargo - Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Professor Gordon Cook - Honorary Visiting Professor

Professor Sally Kinsey - Honorary Visiting Professor

Dr Maxine Lamb - Associate Fellow

Dorothy McCaughan - Honorary Fellow

Dr Roger Owen - Honorary Visiting Professor

Dr Russell Patmore - Honorary Visiting Professor

Dr Andy Rawstron - Honorary Visiting Professor

Melpomeni Rompola - Visiting Research Fellow

Jill Simpson - Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Professor Rueben Tooze - Honorary Visiting Professor

 

 

 

Contact us

Helen Cohen
ECSG Research Administrator

helen.cohen@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 32 1927
Seebohm Rowntree Building, University of York, UK, YO10 5DD
@ECSG_UoY