Meet the Team

The Centre for Epidemiology is home to 80+ researchers, clinicians, professionals and students working to make a difference in the lives of people living with musculoskeletal diseases. Find out more about our talented team below:

Directors

Principal Investigators

Researchers

Research Support

Students

Infrastructure Team

PSS Staff

External Contributors

Directors

Will Dixon

Director

John McBeth

Deputy director

Principal Investigators

David Felson

Honorary Professor

Deborah Symmons

Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Epidemiology

Ian Bruce

Professor of Rheumatology and Honorary Consultant

Jamie Sergeant

Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics

Janet Mcdonagh

Clin Senior Lecturer (paediatric Rheum)

Jennifer Humphreys

NIHR Clinical Lecturer

Kimme Hyrich

Clinical Professor of Epidemiology

Mark Lunt

Reader In Medical Statistics

Matthew Parkes

Research Statistician

Meghna Jani

Clinical Senior Lecturer (hon Cons Stat)

Sabine VD Veer

Lecturer in Health Data Sciences

Suzanne Verstappen

Reader

Terence O'Neill

Clinical Professor

Infrastructure team

Denise Faulkner

Centre Manager

Ilina Serafimova

Centre Communication Manager

Elaine Mackey

Research Information Governance Manager

Rachel Heron

Research Information Governance Officer

Ramiro Bravo

Digital Health Data Manager

Yuanyuan Zhang

Data Scientist

Darryl Bourke

Research Assistant Epidemiology

Lucy Njoki Njuki

Research Assistant (Data Wrangling)