Robert Mahar awarded Dyason Fellowship
Congratulations Rob on being awarded a 2022 University of Melbourne Dyason Fellowship.
Dyason Fellowships fund University staff to undertake or host a short-term international visit that fosters significant and lasting research collaborations with leading international researchers. Fellowships are awarded across all disciplines as well as for interdisciplinary proposals. Fellowship recipients are considered ambassadors of the University and activities should promote the University’s goal of being recognised as a globally engaged, comprehensive and research-intensive university that is uniquely positioned to respond to major social, economic and environmental challenges.
This Fellowship will support Rob's ongoing research collaborations in the area of sequential multiple assignment randomised trials (SMARTs).
Clinicians often face multi-stage and dynamic decisions when treating patients with either chronic or progressive medical conditions. SMARTs are clinical studies that randomise patients to different treatments over time to obtain data to optimise dynamic decision making. However, repeatedly randomising patients to treatments can lead to complicated patterns of missing data, a problem with few existing SMART-specific solutions.
Rob will visit the Centre for Quantitative Medicine at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, to develop a framework for evaluating statistical methods for SMARTs with missing data with A/Prof Bibhas Chakraborty, an SMART design pioneer.
