Professor John Norrie

Prof John NorrieJohn 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