Bernard North
Joint Lead
Bernard’s subject area is statistical consulting particularly in the fields of medical statistics such as clinical trials and evaluation of diagnostic tests and in statistical genetics and genomics. His research background includes work in the applications of survival analysis to clinical trials and methodology for identifying disease susceptibility genes.
Professor Azeem Majeed, Head, Department Primary Care and Social Medicine
Joint Lead
Azeem is Professor of Primary Care and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Social Medicine at Imperial College London. He qualified at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales. He is accredited in both General Practice and Public Health Medicine and began his academic career at St. George's Hospital Medical School as Lecturer in Epidemiology & Public Health Medicine, and then as a Senior Lecturer in Primary Care. He then moved to a Senior Lecturer post at University College London, where he had a joint appointment between the School of Public Policy and the Department of Primary Care & Population Sciences. He was promoted to Professor by University College London in 2002. He took up the post of Professor of Primary Care and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Social Medicine at Imperial College London in 2004. Azeem is also Co-Director of the NW London Comprehensive Local Research Network and Associate Director (Primary Care) of the Diabetes Research Network.
Richard Kells, Administrator, Statistical Advisory Service
Richard studied Communications & Audio-Visual Production at London Metropolitan University, gaining a BA Honours degree in 2000. Richard's first job was as an Invoicing Assistant for Norske Skog - a multi-national manufacturer of newsprint and magazine paper. Following this role, Richard joined RBS Finsure Premium Finance as an Administrative Assistant. Richard later undertook his present position of Administrator for the Statistical Advisory Service, at Imperial College london, in 2004.
Dr Yannis Pappas, Qualitative Methods Consultant
Yannis is the Deputy Director of Imperial College's eHealth Unit. With a background in psychology and medical sociology, Yannis worked as a Lecturer of Social Sciences before he joined Imperial College. Currently, he is teaching a module in the Master in Public Health organised by the Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine at Imperial. His research focuses on understanding how health information technologies might be effectively integrated in healthcare to serve the public, the professionals and the organisations equally. Also, he is working on the development of an empirically-based theoretical framework that illuminates processes of change and adoption of technologies in healthcare organisations. Apart from the effective implementation of eHealth solutions, his current research interests include patient-professional interaction in all healthcare settings but primarily during real-time telemedicine sessions. In the past, Yannis was involved with the MATCH3 project that investigated the needs of end-users of medical technologies as well as with an ESRC project that investigated the process of radicalisation in Britain and in Europe. Prior to his academic career, Yannis held research posts in the industry.
