Professor John Norrie
John Norrie is an experienced clinical trialist and medical statistician by training. He is currently Professor of Clinical Trials and Biostatistics, and Director of Biostatistics at the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics. After 13 years at the Robertson Centre (from 1990-2003), during which John worked on several international landmark cardiovascular drug RCT such as the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (WOSCOPS, New England Journal of Medicine, 1995, 2007) and IMAGES (Lancet, 2003), John moved to the Health Services Research Unit at Aberdeen University to become the first Director of the Centre for Healthcare Randomised Trials (CHaRT), specialising in non-drug, publicly funded complex intervention trials. John has recently become the Director of CHRICCIT (Centre for Health Research Informatics and Centre for Complex Interventions) in Glasgow, an initiative which is part of the Scottish Academic Health Sciences Collaboration, providing a safe haven for record linkage into routine NHS data resources.
John graduated in Mathematics from Kings College in London and took a Masters in Statistics at the London School of Economics. John has published widely in the medical scientific literature, with over 100 peer reviewed articles, with particular interest in methodological issues in clinical trials (such as recruitment and retention, missing data, survival analysis & competing risks). In 2007 John was elected a Director of the Society for Clinical Trials (www.sctweb.org), and is currently an Associate Editor for the journal Clinical Trials. John sits on numerous Data Monitoring Committees and Steering Committees as an independent statistician and experienced trialist.
Publications
Selected Journal Articles
- Norman, JE et al. Progesterone for the prevention of preterm birth in twin pregnancy (STOPPIT): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study and meta-analysis. Lancet 2009; 373 (9680), pp. 2034-2040.
- Norrie J. Trials of venous thromboembolism prevention. Lancet 2007; 370 (9591); 915-917.
- O'Dwyer PJ, Norrie J, et al. Observation or operation for patients with an asymptomatic inguinal hernia: A randomized clinical trial. Annals of Surgery 2006; 244 (2), 167-173.
- Lees KR, Muir KW, Ford I et al. Magnesium for acute stroke (Intravenous Magnesium Efficacy in Stroke trial): randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2004; 363; 9407; 439-445
- Shepherd J, Blauw GJ, Murphy MB et al. Pravastatin in elderly individuals at risk of vascular disease (PROSPER): a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2002; 360; 1623-30.