Statistical challenges in conducting epidemiological outcome studies with real world data
Sanjoy Paul is Professor of Clinical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Health Sciences Research, University of Melbourne and Director of Melbourne EpiCentre, a collaborative research centre within the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to establishing his clinical trials research group in Australia, he created the Statistics & Modelling Group of the University of Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) in the UK.
Professor Paul is an internationally recognised clinical trialist, biostatistician and a research administrator with long‐standing experience of design and conduct of clinical trials and pharmaco‐epidemiological studies. He currently leads several studies in the fields of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases combining clinical trial and large primary care data, including large comparative longitudinal studies funded by government bodies and the pharmaceutical industry.