Director (CHaRT)
- About
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- Email Address
- g.maclennan@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438147
- Office Address
Health Services Research Unit
2nd Floor Health Sciences Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
I am currently Professor of Medical Statistics and the Director of the Centre for Health Care Randomised Trials (CHaRT) which is the Clinical Trials Unit embedded within the Health Services Research Unit. My overarching research interest is in designing fair tests of health care treatments and policies, with a specifc interest in evaluating surgical and complex interventions. I'm also interested in improving the design, conduct, and analysis and reporting of clinical trials through the development and application of methodological research to clinical trials from CHaRT.
My undergrad degree is in Mathematics from the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1997. After a year training as a Mathematics teacher I joined the Unit in September 1998 as a statistician. I studied part-time for an MSc in Applied Statistics with Sheffield Hallam University, graduating in 2004. In 2008 I was appointed Senior Statistican, and in 2016 was I Interim Programme Director for the Health Care Assessment Programme, until being appointment as CHaRT Director in April 2017.
Qualifications
- BSc Mathematics1997 - University of Aberdeen
- MSc Applied Statistics2004 - Sheffield Hallam University
- Research
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Research Overview
The application of statistical methods to clinical trials. Recent example is JCE paper available here on using instrumental variables in a surgery trial to address non-compliance. Collaborators were Jonathan Cook (Oxford), Tom Palmer (Lancaster), and Richard Emesley (Manchester).
Research on making trials more efficient, collaborating with Trial Forge.
Current Research
A complete list of the CHaRT RCT portolio is available by clicking here
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
I teach on our MPH course module PU5031: EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH.
- Publications
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Reducing asthma attacks in children using exhaled nitric oxide (RAACENO) as a biomarker to inform treatment strategy: a multicentre, parallel, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial
The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 584-592Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTreatment guided by fractional exhaled nitric oxide in addition to standard care in 6- to 15-year-olds with asthma: the RAACENO RCT
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation, vol. 9, no. 4Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe EMPOWER blended digital intervention for relapse prevention in schizophrenia: a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial in Scotland and Australia
The Lancet Psychiatry, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 477-486Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVisualising harms in publications of randomised controlled trials: consensus and recommendations
BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 377, e068983Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) for trauma patients with uncontrolled torso haemorrhage: study protocol for a randomised clinical trial (the UK-REBOA trial)
Trials, vol. 23, no. 1, 384Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDigital smartphone intervention to recognise and manage early warning signs in schizophrenia to prevent relapse: the EMPOWER feasibility cluster RCT
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 26, no. 27, pp. v-122Contributions to Journals: ArticlesScotCap - A large observational cohort study
Colorectal Disease, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 411-421Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUse of the oral beta blocker bisoprolol to reduce the rate of exacerbation in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a randomised controlled trial. (BICS)
Trials, vol. 23, no. 1, 307Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe development of theory-informed participant-centred interventions to maximise participant retention in randomised controlled trials
Trials, vol. 23, no. 1, 268Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPulpotomy for the Management of Irreversible Pulpitis in Mature Teeth (PIP): a feasibility study
Pilot and Feasibility Studies, vol. 8, 77Contributions to Journals: Articles
