Neil Shephard BSc (Sheffield), MSc (Sheffield)

Medical Statistician

Clinical Trials Research Unit, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield S1 4DA

Office: G026

Tel:(+44) (0)114 222 5203
Fax: (+44) (0) 114 222 0870

Biography

I joined the ScHARR in 2009 as a Medical Statistician having previously worked for a number of years as a genetic statistician at University of Sheffield, University of Western Australia and University of Manchester.

Within Research Design Services I am involved in providing study design and advice for grant applications for clinicians and researchers, whilst within CTRU I am involved in the detailed study design and analysis of clinical trials.

Research interests

Statistical methodology
Clinical Trials methodology
Public Health
Reproducible Research
Statistical genetics

Key publications since 2001

Shephard, N., Abo, R., Rigas, S. H., Frank, B., Lin, W.-Y., Brock, I. W., Shippen, A., Balasubramanian, S. P., Reed, M. W. R., Bartram, C. R., et al. (2009). A breast cancer risk haplotype in the caspase-8 gene. Cancer Research 69, 2724–2728.

Hinks, A., Barton, A., Shephard, N., Eyre, S., Bowes, J., Cargill, M., Wang, E., Ke, X., Kennedy, G. C., John, S., et al. (2009). Identification of a novel susceptibility locus for juvenile idiopathic arthritis by genome-wide association analysis. Arthritis and rheumatism 60, 258–263.

Gallego, P. H., Shephard, N., Bulsara, M. K., van Bockxmeer, F. M., Powell, B. L., Beilby, J. P., Arscott, G., Le Page, M., Palmer, L. J., Davis, E. A., et al. (2008). Angiotensinogen gene t235 variant: a marker for the development of persistent microalbuminuria in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus. J Diabetes Complications 22, 191–198.

Sims, A. M., Shephard, N., Carter, K., Doan, T., Dowling, A., Duncan, E. L., Eisman, J., Jones, G., Nicholson, G., Prince, R., et al. (2008). Genetic analyses in a sample of individuals with high or low bmd shows association with multiple wnt pathway genes. Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 23, 499–506.

Golledge, J., Muller, J., Shephard, N., Clancy, P., Smallwood, L., Moran, C., Dear, A. E., Palmer, L. J., and Norman, P. E. (2007). Association between osteopontin and human abdominal aortic aneurysm. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 27, 655–60.

Amos, C. I., Chen, W. V., Remmers, E., Siminovitch, K. A., Seldin, M. F., Criswell, L. A., Lee, A. T., John, S., Shephard, N. D., Worthington, J., et al. (2007). Data for Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW) 15 Problem 2, genetic causes of rheumatoid arthritis and associated traits. BMC Proceedings 1, S3.

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Section

I am based in the Design, Trials & Statistics Section.