Dr Raja Edwin-Amalraj

Dr Raja Edwin-Amalraj
Dr Raja Edwin-Amalraj
Dr Raja Edwin-Amalraj

M.Sc., Ph.D.,

Advanced Research Fellow

About
Email Address
amalraj.raja@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 437147
Office Address

Telephone :01224-437147 Fax :01224 437857 Medical Statistics Team Division of Applied Health Sciences University of Aberdeen Polwarth Building Foresterhill ABERDEEN AB25 2ZD UK

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

Amalraj Raja joined Public Health as a Research Fellow in Medical Statistics in May 2006. In 1983, Amalraj Raja got his undergraduate degree in Statistics from St.Joseph's College, Trichy, India and postgraduate degree  in Statistics from Loyola College, Chennai, India.

Amalraj Raja underwent advanced training in application of Statistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore. He worked in Advanced Center for Clinical Epidemiological research and Training Centre in Madras Medical College, Chennai.  His work with the Tamil Nadu Government funded project on 'Epidemiology of Head Injury'   led to obtain  his Ph D on 'Biostatistical Application in the Prediction of Outcome of Severe Head Injury' from the Tamil Nadu M G R Medical University, Chennai, India.

Within Public Health, Amalraj Raja involves in the analysis of research projects, especially statistical modeling of longitudinal data, Statistical methods in Epidemiology, etc., He is also involved in teaching and training in Medical statistics organised by the Medical Statistics Team for staff and students of this University.

Publications

Dhakal S, Chapman GN,   Simkhada PP,   Van Teijlingen ER,  Stephens J and  Raja EA  Utilisation of postnatal care among rural women in Nepal Raja BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2007; 7:19.

Adhikary P, Simkhada PP, van Teijlingen ER, Raja  EA. Health and lifestyle of Nepalese migrants in the UK. BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008; 8: 6.

Smith SM, Campbell NC, MacLeod U, Lee AJ, Raja EA,  Wyke S, Ziebland SB, Duff EM,  Ritchie LD, and Nicolson MC.  Factors contributing to the time taken to consult with symptoms of lung cancer: a cross sectional study. Thorax 2009; Thorax 2009;64:523-531

Bhattacharya S, Porter M, Raja EA,  Templeton A, Hamilton M, Lee AJ, and Kurinczuk J. The epidemiology of infertility in the North East of Scotland.  Human Reproduction 2009 Dec;24(12):3096-107.

Hoddinott P, Kroll T,  Raja EA  and Lee AJ. Seeing other women breastfeed: how vicarious experience relates to breastfeeding intention and behaviour. Maternal and Child Nutrition 2010; 6:134-146.

Simkhada P,  Poobalan AS,  Aucott LS,  Simkhada PP and  Raja EA.Knowledge, Attitude and Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among Civil Servants in Nepal.  Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health 2009;20(5):1-11.

Bhattacharya S,  Raja EA,   Mirazo ER,  Campbell DM,  Lee AL,  Norman JE,   Bhattacharya S.  Inherited predisposition to spontaneous preterm delivery.Obstetrics & Gynecology  2010 Jun;115(6):1125-33

Cooper K,  Lee AJ,  Chien P,  Raja EA,  Timmaraju V,  Bhattacharya S. Outcomes following hysterectomy or endometrial ablation for heavy menstrual bleeding: retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics in Scotland.  BJOG 2011;118 (10): 1171-9

Dhakal S,   van Teijlingen ER, Raja EA, Keshar Bahadur Dhakal.  Skilled care at birth among rural women in Nepal: practice and challenges. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition  2011; 29(4): 371-378

Dhaka S, van Teijlingen ER, Simkhada PP,  Dhakal KB, Stephens J, Chapman GN,  Raja EA.  Antenatal care among women in rural Nepal: A community-based study. J of Rural Nursing & Health Care 2011;11(2):76-87

Murchie P, Nicolson MC, Hannaford PC, Raja EA, Lee AJ, Campbell NC.  patient satisfaction with GP-led melanoma follow-up-: a randomised controlled trial.  British Journal of Cancer 2010; 102: 1447-1455.

Eagles JM, Lee AJ, Raja EA, Millar HR, Blacklaw L, and Bhattacharya S. Pregnancy outcomes of women with and without a history of anorexia nervosa. Psychol Med. 2012 Dec;42(12):2651-60

Bhattacharya S, Lowit A, Bhattacharya S, Raja EA,  Lee AJ,, Mahmood T and Templeton A. Reproductive outcomes following induced abortion: a national register-based cohort study in Scotland. BMJ Open. 2012 Aug 6;2(4):

Ewies, A. A. A., Cooper, K., Lee, A. J., Chien, P., Raja, E. A., Timmaraju, V. & Bhattacharya, S. Outcomes following hysterectomy or endometrial ablation for heavy menstrual bleeding: retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics in Scotland reply.  British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2012: 119(3): 375

Murchie P, Edwin-Amalraj R, Lee AJ, Campbell NC. Mortality and morbidity after primary excision of cutaneous melanoma in primary versus secondary care Br J Gen Pract. 2013 Aug;63(613) :e563-72. doi: 10.3399/bjgp13X670697.

Smith S, Craig LCA, Raja EA, McNeill G, Turner SW. Growing up before growing out: secular trends in height, weight and obesity in 5–6-year-old children born between 1970 and 2006.  Archives of Disease in Childhood .   2013 Apr;98(4):269-73

Smith S, Craig LCA, Raja EA, McNeill G, Turner SW. Prevalence and year-on-year trends of childhood thinness in a whole-study population. Arch Dis Child. 2014 Jan;99(1):58-61

Saroj Bhandari, Raja EA, Ashalatha Shetty, Sohinee Bhattacharya. Maternal and perinatal consequences of antepartum haemorrhage of unknown origin.  BJOG. 2014 Jan;121(1):44-52

Reynolds RM, Allan KM, Raja EA, Bhattacharya S, McNeill G, Hannaford PC, Sarwar N, Lee AJ, Bhattacharya S, Norman JE. Maternal obesity during pregnancy and premature mortality from cardiovascular event in adult offspring: follow-up of 1 323 275 person years. BMJ. 2013 Aug 13;347:f4539. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4539.

Denison F, Norwood P, Bhattacharya S, Duffy A, Mahmood T, Morris C, Raja EA, Norman J, Lee A, Scotland G. Association between maternal body mass index during pregnancy, short-term morbidity, and increased health service costs: a population-based study. BJOG. 2014 ; vol 121(1): 72-82

Smith S, Craig LC, Raja, E A, McNeill G, Turner SW.  Prevalence and year-on-year trends in childhood thinness in a whole population study.  Archives of Disease in Childhood 2014; 99(1): 58-61.

Murchie P,  Raja E A, D H Brewster, N C Campbell, L D Ritchie, R Robertson, L Samuel, N Gray and A J Lee. Time from first presentation in primary care to treatment of symptomatic colorectal cancer: effect on disease stage and survival British Journal of Cancer (2014) 111, 461–469

Murchie P,  Raja E A, A J Lee, D H Brewster, N C Campbell, NM Gray, L D Ritchie, R Robertson and L Samuel. Effect of longer health service provider delays on stage at diagnosis and mortality in symptomatic breast cancer The Breast (2015) 24, 248–255

Kuan Ken Lee, Raja EA,Amanda J Lee, Sohinee Bhattacharya, Siladitya Bhattacharya, Jane E Norman, Rebecca M Reynolds. Maternal Obesity during Pregnancy Associates with  Premature Mortality and Major Cardiovascular Events in Later Life.  Hypertension. 2015 Nov;66(5):938-44.

Aroub A Alnasser, Raja E A, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Abdulrahman S Al-Khalifa, Debbi Marais.  Do Arabic weight loss mobile applications comply with evidence-based weight management guidelines? (submitted to Translational Behavioral Medicine)

A L DoPieralaa, S. Bhattac, Raja E A, S Bhattacharyab and S Bhattacharyac. Obstetric consequences of subfertility: An analysis of singleton and twin pregnancies in Grampian from 1992-2009. BJOG : an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2016, 123(8):1320-1328

Bhattacharya S,  McNeill G,  Raja EA,  Allan K, Sarwar N,  Reynolds RM, Norman J, Hannaford P. Maternal gestational weight gain and offspring's risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality. Heart 2016; 102:1456-1463.  doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2015-308709.

Lydiya Thomas1, Dr HS Asha2, Prakash Raj2,  Raja EA1, Dr Prakash Abraham1 and Dr Nihal Thomas2.  The use of problem areas in Diabetes (PAID) scale amongst type 2 Diabetes outpatients: An experience from a tertiary hospital in South India. (To be submitted to Diabetes research and clinical practice).

 

External Memberships

Statistical expert for North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee (NRES)

Research

Research Overview

Clinical Areas of Consulting Experience

Obstetric & Gynaecology  Factors associated with Maternal complications, Maternal BMI & Offspring CVD , Mortality

Infertility                      Classification of infertility and demographic factors affecting fertility

Maternal Obesity           Offspring developing CVD           

Renal disease                The relationship between renal function parameters and blood pressure

common Cancers           Factors contributing to time to consult GP, provider delay & stage , Mortality

Diabetes Mellitus            Prevalence, risk factors, incidence of complications,  patients perception of their complication

                                

Current Research

Methodological research interests

Prediction Modelling

Categorical data analysis

Statistical methods in Epidemiology

Analysis of repeated measures / Longitudinal Data Analysis / Multilevel Modeling

Structural Equation Modelling

Cubic spline analysis - Non-linear relationship between continuous variable and outcome

Survival analysis- Competing risks- recurrent events

Funding and Grants

Murchie P, Lisa I, Raja EA, Lee AJ. Do melanoma excised in primary care have different outcomes to those excised in secondary care? Friends of ANCHOR £10,000

David M, Bhattacharya S, Abha M, Raja EA. Perinatal outcomes of singletons born following in-vitro fertilisation: a comparison of different embryo transfer strategies using UK data. NHS Grampian Endowment .(submitted)

Mairead B, Sohinee B, Andrea W, Gail F, EA Raja and Ipek. Maternal Body Mass Index in pregnancy ana cardiometabolic risk in monozygotic and dizygotic twin offspring (submitted to Wellbeing of Women)

Sohinee B, Geraldine M, Rebecca R and EA Raja. Reproductive consequences of third and fourth degree perineal tears (submitted to CHSS)

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Teaching in the Short courses organised by Medical Statistics Team

Introduction to Medical Statistics

Intermediate Statistics Course

B medical Science SPSS practicals II

M Sc Public Health practicals

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