Dr STEVEN MACLENNAN
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Academic Urology Unit
Health Sciences Building (2nd Floor)
University of Aberdeen
Foresterhill
Aberdeen AB25 2ZD
Tel: +44 (0)1224 559086
Fax: +44 (0)1224 554580
Email: steven.maclennan@abdn.ac.uk
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BA(Hons). MRes. PhD.
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Biography
Steven MacLennan is currently the Research Fellow on the Cancer Research Aberdeen and Noth East Scotland (CRANES) funded project to develop a core outcome set for prostate cancer effectiveness trials. He joined Academic Urology Unit in 2009 as a Macmillan funded Research Fellow in the UCAN systematic review team to produce systematic reviews of surgical and non-surgical interventions in differeing stages of urological cancers.
Steven studied for PhD in sociology at the University of Edinburgh, during which time he also worked for Baccus Consulting doing primary research, literature reviews and monitoring reports in public health. Prior to this Steven completed a postgraduate Master of Research degree and an undergraduate honours degree in Applied Social Sciences.
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Current Research
Core outcomes in prostate cancer effectiveness trials
Phase 1 - What outcomes have previously been reported, and what outcomes are important to patients?
- Systematic review of previously reported outcomes
- Focus groups with patients who have been treated for prostate cancer to ascertain which outcomes they see as important
Phase 2 - Delphi study - which outcomes are the most important to all stakeholder?
- Initial consensus meeting with key stakeholders (patients, clinicians and NHS heads of service) to shorten the list of important outcomes
- 2 rounds of questionnaires to rank list the most important outcomes
- Second consensus meeting with key stakeholders to decide upon a core set of outcomes
Phase 3 - Feasibility study - Is it feasible to collect data on the core outcome set?
- A prospective cohort study of patients undergoing prostate cancer treatments to assess how easy/difficult it is to collect data on the core outcome set.
Sytematic Reviews of oncological, perioperative and quality of life outcomes in surgical and non-surgical interventions in urological cancers
Some recently completed systematic reviews and ongoing reviews include:
- The surgical management of localised renal cell cancer
- Should adrenalectomy and/or lymph node dissection be done at the time of nephrectomy in locally advanced renal cell cancer?
- The surgical and non-surgical management of localised prostate cancer
- The surgical and non-surgical management of localised penile cancer
- The management of testicular Cancer
- The management of bladder cancer
The UCAN systematic review team are also interested in methodological issues. Recent work includes the problem of how best to assess the risks of bias in non-randomised studies when they are included in systematic reviews; and the problems of extracting hazard ratios from survival curves for meta-analyses in observational studies.
Steven also retains an active interest in and publishes collaboratively in sociology.
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Teaching Responsibilities
Steven is involved with the supervision of students undertaking systematic reviews as part of their academic training
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Qualifications
- BA(Hons) Applied Social Sciences, The Robert Gordon University
- MRes in Social Research, The University of Aberdeen
- PhD. Sociology, The University of Edinburgh
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- MacLennan, S., Imamura, M., Lapitan, MCM., Omar, MI., Lam, TBL., Hilvano-Cabungcal, AM., Royle, P., Stewart, F., MacLennan, GS., MacLennan, S., Canfield, SE., McClinton, S., Griffiths, TRL., Ljungberg, B. & N'Dow, JMO. (2012). 'Systematic review of oncological outcomes following surgical management of localised renal cancer'. European Urology, vol 61, no. 5, pp. 972-993.
[Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2012.02.039
[Online] AURA: MacLennan_2012.pdf - Maclennan, S., Imamura, M., Lapitan, MC., Omar, MI., Lam, TBL., Hilvano-Cabungcal, AM., Royle, P., Stewart, F., Maclennan, G., Maclennan, SJ., Dahm, P., Canfield, SE., McClinton, S., Griffiths, TRL., Ljungberg, B., N'dow, J. & UCAN Systematic Review Reference Group (2012). 'Systematic Review of Perioperative and Quality-of-life Outcomes Following Surgical Management of Localised Renal Cancer'. European Urology, vol 62, no. 6, pp. 1097-1117.
[Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2012.07.028 - MacLennan, S. (2009). 'Calculating Practices'. Edinburgh Working Papers in Sociology, vol 2009.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Chapters
- MacLennan, S. & Muir, K. (2010). 'Community'. C Yuill & A Gibson (eds), in: Sociology for Social Work: An Introduction. Sage Publications, London, United Kingdom.
Contributions to Conferences
Papers
- Lam, TBL., MacLennan, S., Imamura, M., Omar, MI. & MacLennan, G. (2011). 'Evidence for partial nephrectomy'. Paper presented at BAUS section of Endourology - Annual meeting 2011, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 1/09/11 - 1/09/11,.
- Palmer, D., MacLennan, S., Imamura, M., Reeves, BC., Clubb, A., Duboy, A., Nueberger, M. & Dahm, P. (2011). 'Initial experience with a pilot Cochrane tool for assessing risk of bias for non-randomized studies applying a web-based survey of content experts to derive criteria for imbalance'. Paper presented at Cochrane Colloquium, Madrid, Spain, 18/10/11 - 22/10/11,.
- MacLennan, S., Imamura, M., Dahm, P., Nueberger, M., Reeves, BC., MacLennan, GS., Omar, MI., McClinton, S., Griffiths, TRL. & N'Dow, JMO. (2011). 'Assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies and incorporating GRADE: Initial experience with a new Cochrane ‘risk of bias’ tool under development'. Paper presented at Cochrane Colloquium, Madrid, Spain, 18/10/11 - 22/10/11,.
- Imamura, M., MacLennan, S., Dahm, P., Nueberger, M., Omar, MI. & MacLennan, GS. (2011). 'The hazards of extracting hazard ratios from survival curves for meta-analyses in observational studies'. Paper presented at Cochrane Colloquium, Madrid, Spain, 18/10/11 - 22/10/11,.
- MacLennan, S. (2009). ''It wasn't me, Guv. It was the System': MPs Expenses and Rhetorical Accouting Techniques'. Paper presented at New Directions in Social Research, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 22/04/09 - 24/04/09,.
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