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Stephen Sharp

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Stephen Sharp
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Institute of Metabolic Science
Box 285
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ

Tel: +44 (0)1223 769191
Fax: +44 (01223) 330316
email: stephen.sharp@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

 

Biography

Stephen leads the statistical support for the MRC Epidemiology Unit. He and his team are involved in the research of all the scientific programmes within the unit. He also collaborates with statistical colleagues from the Institute of Public Health on issues of methodological interest, is a Lecturer for the University of Cambridge MPhil in Epidemiology and Public Health, and is a statistical reviewer for The Lancet and Diabetologia. He is a member of a technology appraisal committee for the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

Stephen has an MA in Mathematics from Oxford University and an MSc in Medical Statistics from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has previous experience as a medical statistician within both academia and industry.

Selected publications

  1. Griffin SJ, Borch-Johnsen K, Davies MJ, Khunti K, Rutten G, Sandbæk A, Sharp SJ, Simmons RK, van den Donk M, Wareham NJ, Lauritzen T. Effect of early intensive multifactorial therapy on 5-year cardiovascular outcomes in individuals with type 2 diabetes detected by screening (ADDITION-Europe): a cluster-randomised trial. Lancet 2011; 378: 156-67.

  2. The InterAct Consortium. Design and cohort description of the InterAct Project: an examination of the interaction of genetic and lifestyle factors on the incidence of type 2 diabetes in the EPIC Study. Diabetologia 2011; DOI 10.1007/s00125-011-2182-9.

  3. Palla L, Higgins JPT, Wareham NJ, Sharp SJ. Challenges in the use of literature-based meta-analysis to examine gene-environment interactions. American Journal of Epidemiology 2010; 171: 1225-1232.

  4. Usher-Smith JA, Thompson MJ, Sharp SJ, Walter FM. Factors associated with the presence of diabetic ketoacidosis at diagnosis of diabetes in children and young adults: a systematic review. BMJ 2011; 343:d4092.

  5. Thompson SG, Ekelund U, Jebb S, Lindroos AK, Mander A, Sharp SJ, Turner R, Wilks D. A proposed method of bias adjustment for meta-analyses of published observational studies. International Journal of Epidemiology 2010;1-13.