Professor Graeme MacLennan

Director (CHaRT)

Email Address: g.maclennan@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 438147
Office Address: Health Services Research Unit
2nd Floor Health Sciences Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD
School/Department: School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

I am currently Professor of Medical Statistics and the Director of the Centre for Health Care Randomised Trials (CHaRT) which is the Clinical Trials Unit embedded within the Health Services Research Unit. My overarching research interest is in designing fair tests of health care treatments and policies, with a specifc interest in evaluating surgical and complex interventions. I'm also interested in improving the design, conduct, and analysis and reporting of clinical trials through the development and application of methodological research to clinical trials from CHaRT.

My undergrad degree is in Mathematics from the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1997. After a year training as a Mathematics teacher I joined the Unit in September 1998 as a statistician. I studied part-time for an MSc in Applied Statistics with Sheffield Hallam University, graduating in 2004. In 2008 I was appointed Senior Statistican, and in 2016 was I Interim Programme Director for the Health Care Assessment Programme, until being appointment as CHaRT Director in April 2017.

Qualifications

BSc Mathematics
1997 - University of Aberdeen
MSc Applied Statistics
2004 - Sheffield Hallam University

Research

Research Overview

The application of statistical methods to clinical trials. Recent example is JCE paper available here on using instrumental variables in a surgery trial to address non-compliance. Collaborators were Jonathan Cook (Oxford), Tom Palmer (Lancaster), and Richard Emesley (Manchester).

Research on making trials more efficient, collaborating with Trial Forge.

Current Research

A complete list of the CHaRT RCT portolio is available by clicking here

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

I teach on our MPH course module PU5031: EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH.

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Current Research

Teaching Responsibilities

Incentives to Promote Breastfeeding: A Systematic Review

Single port/incision laparoscopic surgery compared with standard three-port laparoscopic surgery for appendicectomy: a randomized controlled trial

Non-compliance with randomised allocation and missing outcome data in randomised controlled trials evaluating surgical interventions: a systematic review

The push me, pull you of financial incentives and health inequalities: a mixed methods study investigating smoking cessation in pregnancy and breastfeeding

Observational study of current use of selective decontamination of the digestive tract in UK critical care units

Cardiovascular disease and vitamin D supplementation: trial analysis, systematic review, and meta-analysis

Public acceptability of financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy and breastfeeding

Public acceptability of financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy and breast feeding: a survey of the British public

Use of drug therapy in the management of symptomatic ureteric stones in hospitalized adults (SUSPEND), a multicentre, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of a calcium-channel blocker (nifedipine) and an α-blocker (tamsulosin): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Comparison of four methods for assessing the importance of attitudinal beliefs: An international Delphi study in intensive care settings

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