ICTU is divided into sections, with oversight from the Executive Committee team.

Please expand below for further details.


Senior Management

Executive Committee team

The ICTU Executive Committee team consists of the Director, Deputy Director, Senior Clinical Academic Lead, Business Development Manager and the Heads of Sections. 

  • Professor Victoria Cornelius (Director of ICTU, Professor of Medical Statistics and Trials Methodology)
  • (Deputy Director of ICTU, Professor of Neonatal Medicine)
  • (Senior Clinical Academic Lead, Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine)
  • Dr Daphne Babalis (Director of Operations)
  • (Chair in Health Informatics)
  • Dr Suzie Cro (Associate Professor in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Head of Trial Methodology and co-Head of Statistics)
  • Dr Rachel Phillips (Associate Professor in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Head of Clinical Trial Statistics and co-Head of Statistics)
  • (Assistant Professor in Digital Health & Clinical Trials)
  • Francesco Lala (Head of Clinical Data Systems)
  • Dr Gaia Kiru (Head of Commercial Operations & Partnerships)
  • (Departmental Manager)
  • Eloise Britten (Head of Quality Assurance)
  • Claire Smith (Business & Development Manager)

Administration

Departmental Administration

The departmental administration team works across the UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit, as well as the wider department.

  •  (Departmental Manager)
  • Nicola Carter (PA to Prof. Chris Gale and Administrator)
  • Emma Mok (PA to Prof. Victoria Cornelius)
  • Angela Knight (Departmental Administrator)
  • Rani Rayat (Personal Assistant to Prof. Neil Poulter)

 

Commercial

ICTU-Global

Head of Section

Commercial Team

  • Gaia Kiru (Head of Operations & Partnerships)
  • Jennifer Murphy (Operations Manager)
  • Jess Smith (Operations Manager)
  • (Clinical Trial Manager)
  • Claire Brennan (Clinical Trial Manager - maternity leave)
  • (Clinical Trial Manager/ Monitor)
  • Stephanie Amiridis (Clinical Trial Monitor - maternity leave)
  • Felicia Frost (Clinical Trial Administrator)

Clinical Data Systems

Clinical Data Systems

Head of Section

(Head of Clinical Data Systems)
(Deputy Head of Clinical Data Systems)

Data Management

Vivienne Okona-Mensah (Senior Data Manager)
 

Validation and Test Team

Dinesh Sivakumar (Senior Data Specialist)
Adina Ion (Data Specialist)
Tolulope Sokunle (Data Specialist)
 

Production Support Team

Nayan Das (Data Systems Manager)
Lee Barker (Senior Data Specialist)
Vanaja Kakarla (Data Specialist)
 

Systems Development Team

Emma Kirby (Systems Development Manager)
Smita Das (Data Specialist)
Zala Noorzad (Data Specialist)
 

You can find further information about the Clinical Data Systems team on their webpage

OPERATIONS

Academic Operations

Head of Section

  •  (Director of Operations)

 

Operations managers

  • (CRUK Centre Clinical Trials Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • (Portfolio Manager)
  • (Operations Manager)
  • (Operations Manager)
  •  (Operations Manager)
  • (Operations Manager)
  •  (Operations Manager, ICTU-Surgery)
  • (RSS Operations Manager, Clinical 91桃色)
  • (Operations Manager)
  •  (Operations & Business Development Manager)
  • (Operations Manager, ICTU-Surgery)
  • Mrs Laura Stylianou (Cancer Clinical Trials Deputy Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)

 

Operational trial staff

Most ICTU staff are employed within the School of Public Health. However, some staff are employed through the departments where the main trial teams they work with are based; these instances are noted below.

  • Increase Akinyemi (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Louise Austen (Public Involvement and Engagement Facilitator)
  • Janis Best-Lane (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Rhianne Beveney (Clinical Trials Manager)
  • Luke Bolger (Clinical Trials Monitor)
  • Yu-Chieh Chiu (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Aaron Clarke (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Richard Cleaver (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Emma Cullen (Project Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Lenka Cuprova (Clinical Trials Administrator)
  • Ross Dalton (Clinical Trials Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Karen Danois (Clinical Trials Manager)
  • Ravinder Dhaliwal (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Rowan Dulson (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Ify Ejizu (Clinical Trials Monitor)
  • Elizabeth Fagbodun (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Marta Gielniewska (Clinical Trials Monitor)
  • Ramona Georgescu (Clinical Trials Manager)
  • Michael Hetherington (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Lindsay Jack (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Puja Jadav (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Promli Kamali (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Sophie Kathirgamanathan (Clinical Trials Manager, NHLI)
  • Tryphena Konala (Clinical Trials Monitor)
  • Nishtha Kotriwala (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Paulina Kuswik (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Gemma Loebenberg (Clinical Trials Manager)
  • Zoe Lovell (Clinical Trials Monitor)
  • Amanda Masters (Clinical Trials Monitor)
  • Marie Miller (Public Involvement and Engagement Lead)
  • Joseph Montebello (Clinical Trials Manager/ Monitor)
  • Sharon Mumby (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Natalia Olejniczak (Clinical Trials Monitor)
  • Ayomide Olorunfemi (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Alexis Perkins (Clinical Trials Manager)
  • Francesca Rawlins (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Meena Reddi (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Rebecca Ruiz (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Salma Samsuddin (Clinical Trials Manager)
  • Emmanuel Sappor (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Varsha Sonigra-Patel (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Najwa Soussi (Clinical Trials Manager)
  • Claire Streatfield (Clinical Trials Manager)
  • Lucy Stronach (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Johanna Sukumar (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
  • Faye Tsai (Clinical Trials Administrator)

Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance
  • Eloise Britten (Head of Quality Assurance)
  • Jonathan Dao (Quality Assurance Administrator)

Statistics

Clinical Trial Statistics

Heads of Section

  • Dr Suzie Cro (co-Head of Statistics, Head of Trial Methodology, Senior Lecturer)
  • Dr Rachel Phillips (co-Head of Statistics, Head of SAS, Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials)
  • Emanuela Falaschetti (Deputy Head of Statistics, Senior Trial Statistician, 91桃色 Fellow, CV & Respiratory Portfolio Lead)
  • Leila Janani (Deputy Head of Trial Methodology, Senior Trial Statistician, Advanced 91桃色 Fellow)

ICTU Clinical Trial Statistics Team

  • Spyridon Bissas (NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow)
  • Manel Benlloch (Clinical Trials Statistician)
  • Louise Cherrill (Clinical Trials Statistician)
  • Oswald Dallimore (NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow)
  • Jack Elkes (NIHR Doctoral Fellow and 91桃色 Associate)
  • Lorna Hazell (Clinical Trials Statistician)
  • Nicholas Johnson (Senior Statistician, 91桃色 Fellow, Surgery & Cancer Portfolio Lead)
  • (Clinical Trials Statistician)
  • (Clinical Trials Statistician)
  • Martin Orr (Clinical Trials Statistician)
  • Hadis Rastad (Senior Clinical Trials Statistician, 91桃色 Fellow)
  • Eleanor van Vogt (NIHR Doctoral Fellow and 91桃色 Assistant)
  • (Senior Trial Statistician, 91桃色 Fellow, Infection Portfolio Lead)
  • Hannah Wallace (NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow)
  • (Statistician - maternity leave)

External to the UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit, but part of the wider ICTU department.

 

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