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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. 63
Barbara Gomes BSc MSc Cicely Saunders International PhD Research Training Fellow Barbara completed her first degree in Psychology and Health at the University of Porto, Portugal and an MSc in Palliative Care at King's College London. Having gained experience in research (in topics such as healthcare staff training, the integration of vocational guidance in the school curriculum and family influence on life expectations), she spent one year as a psychologist in a Portuguese palliative care unit. Together with Professor Irene Higginson she has been leading a long-term project supported by Cicely Saunders International aiming to understand where people die and to discover ways of empowering patients who wish to die at home. Barbara’s PhD is looking at ways of improving the quality of palliative care at home and to discover more costeffective models of home care. Barbara's interests and projects include: decision-making at the end of life regarding place of care and death, quality of care and patient-centred care, cost-effectiveness, the role of the media on public education about palliative care, symptom prevalence in advanced disease, understanding risk, trends analysis and the evaluation of palliative care services. Dr Marjolein Gysels MA PhD Senior Research Fellow Marjolein completed an MA at the University of Ghent in Belgium and received a PhD in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 1996. She has carried out research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Swahili and oral literature. She worked for the TANESA project on AIDS in Tanzania on female infertility and for the MRC (UK) Programme on AIDS in Uganda on commercial sex work. At King’s College London, she collaborated on the PROMOTE Project, and she worked on the Research Evidence Manual which is part of the NICE Guidance for Supportive and Palliative Care for those affected by cancer. Since September 2004 she has been co-managing a programme on breathlessness in advanced and progressive disease, which is primarily supported by Cicely Saunders International. She is currently also involved in the literature scoping on the delivery and organisation of generalist services for adults at the end of life for a project funded by NHS Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO). 64
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