2004 - 2007 - Cicely Saunders Institute - King's College London

Dr Wei Gao PhD MMed BMed
Medical Statistician
Wei Gao has a medical background and a PhD in
epidemiology and health statistics. Before joining the
Department as a medical statistician in April 2007, she
worked at Imperial College London in the Infectious
Disease Epidemiology department. She gained considerable
experience in analyzing data from various disease
registries, population-based epidemiology surveys and
gene-environmental interaction studies through her
working with the National University of Singapore from
2002 to 2005. She is a statistical reviewer for the Lancet
and three Lancet series journals. She has expertise in
generating statistical and epidemiologic hypothesis,
describing large observational data and assessing
population disease burdens, survival analysis, advanced
modelling with traditional statistical models and artificial
neural networks, ROC analysis, research design,
computerised record linkage and data management.
Her research interests are extending from previous
statistical epidemiology and experimental medicine to
palliative care and psychosocial medicine. She is
contributing to Strand I of COMPASS (COMPlex
interventions: Assessment, trialS and implementation of
Services) to develop assessment and outcome
measures. She also provides statistical support for the
researchers in the department and teaches MSc
students.
Cassie Goddard BSC MSc
Research Assistant
Cassie studied for her BSc in Applied Psychology at
Liverpool John Moores University, and was awarded an
MSc in Health Promotion and Psychology from the
University of Nottingham in 2006, where her research
interests focused predominantly around smoking
cessation. Following her undergraduate degree, Cassie
worked as Clinical Trials Support Officer on the AspECT
Trail - A Phase III, randomised, study of aspirin and
esomerpazole chemoprevention in Barrett’s Metaplasia.
In May 2007 Cassie joined the Department of Palliative
Care, Policy and Rehabilitation at King’s College London
School of Medicine as a Research Assistant, her main
focus of work concerns the study “Facilitating Implementation
of Gold Standards Framework for Care
Homes”, researching into issues surrounding the
provision of end of life care in care homes. The project is
funded by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity.
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