{"id":577,"date":"2019-12-16T09:32:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T09:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=577"},"modified":"2020-01-02T08:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T08:56:39","slug":"jack-elkes-clinical-trials-statistician-school-of-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2019\/12\/16\/jack-elkes-clinical-trials-statistician-school-of-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Elkes, Clinical Trials Statistician, School of Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-579\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/files\/2019\/12\/Elkes_-Jack-_2_-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>\u201cI appreciate the flexibility, the work attitude and opportunities for development at Imperial. I am very proud to work for Imperial, a university at the forefront of research.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Before joining Imperial, I worked as a biostatistician at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqvia.com\/\">IQVIA<\/a> on a large scope of projects in various disease areas and trial phases. I have always enjoyed using an analytical approach to problem solving, which is why I studied for an MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I have always been interested in healthcare, so before I became a statistician I undertook a BSc in Biomedical Sciences at Brighton University.<\/p>\n<p>At Imperial I have two roles. Firstly, I work as a clinical trials statistician, working collaboratively with other researchers to set up, run and analyse novel interventions to evaluate their benefit in patient care. My day can include designing a new study, writing analysis plans and programming statistical analysis.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My other role is within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rds-london.nihr.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research Design Service<\/a> as a general advisor, which means I offer study design advice to researchers working up a grant application for the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperialbrc.nihr.ac.uk\/\">National Institute for Health Research.<\/a> I enjoy this role as it is an opportunity to meet other people at Imperial outside of my department, and help them to convert a research idea into a clearly defined research question and study design.<\/p>\n<p>In my job I love working with likeminded individuals, and the team I work with at Imperial are fantastic researchers who support and inspire me. I also appreciate the flexibility, the work attitude and opportunities for development at Imperial. I am very proud to work for Imperial, a university at the forefront of research.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work I do a lot of running. I ran the London Landmarks earlier this year and recently took part in the Run in the Dark 10km run. I also enjoy tinkering with technology \u2013 I am a big fan of the Raspberry Pi (not the food) and have enjoyed doing small projects such as a temperature controlled light strip and a smart mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI appreciate the flexibility, the work attitude and opportunities for development at Imperial. I am very proud to work for Imperial, a university at the forefront of research.\u201d Before joining Imperial, I worked as a biostatistician at IQVIA on a large scope of projects in various disease areas and trial phases. I have always enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294815],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}