Shona Livingstone

Research Fellow

Population Health and Genomics, School of Medicine

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Email

S.Livingstone@dundee.ac.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1382 383450

Biography

Shona is an applied statistician (MSc Applied Statistics, St Catherine’s College Oxford. 1990) with a background in pure science (Joint Honours Chemistry and Biochemistry. Imperial College London, 1988). She has worked in both epidemiological and clinical trial settings and a variety of therapeutic areas (cardiothoric surgery, HIV disease surveillance and clinical trials and diabetes).

Since 2008 she has worked at the University of Dundee as a statistician/epidemiologist focusing mainly on Diabetes related complications using Scottish wide epidemiological data, but also has Phase 3 clinical trial experience reporting out the Collaborative Atorvastatin Diabetes Study (CARDS) at University College London, and Phase 2 experience in diabetes while at GSK.

Research

Using data from Scottish data-linkage systems and clinical databases to study the epidemiology of diabetes complications and the safety of drugs.

Secondary analyses of clinical trial data from Collaborative Atorvastatin Diabetes Study (CARDS).
Evaluating the impact of competing mortality risk on the performance of risk prediction tools.

Main statistical expertise: survival analysis and the analysis of longitudinal data. Risk prediction. Competing risk analysis.

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