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Winners of our annual CTU Awards

The OCTRU CTU Awards take place annually every Summer and give everyone within OCTRU a chance to celebrate each others' achievements from the previous year as nominations are open to all members of staff within the unit. All of our winners are listed below!

2024

Trial Of the Year SPELL & ROBUST (SITU NDORMS)
Trial Manager of the Year Louise Spoors (Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care)
Trial Innovation of the Year The TRIAGE System (Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care)
Special Recognition for Trial(s) Contribution Sarah Pearson (OCTO)
Publication of the Year WAX Early versus delayed weight-bearing following operatively treated ankle fracture (WAX): a non-inferiority, multicentre, randomised controlled trial
Doug Altman Award for Statistical Excellence Alex Zimmermann

 2023

Trial Of the Year SARONG (SITU NDS) 
Trial Manager of the Year Alice Guazzelli (SITU NDS) 
Trial Innovator/Innovation of the Year REDCap Viewing Gallery (OCTRU Hub)  .  
Special Recognition for Trial(s) Contribution Laura Lloyd Jones (SITU NDS) 
Publication of the Year WHiTE-8 High-dose dual-antibiotic loaded cement for hip hemiarthroplasty in the UK (WHiTE 8): a randomised controlled trial 
Doug Altman Award for Statistical Excellence

Ioana Marian  

2022

Trial Of the Year    MACRO (SITU NDS) 
Trial Manager of the Year Tim Coutts (OCTO) 
Trial Innovator/Innovation of the Year FORCE (Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care) – most innovative use of study results dissemination.  
Special Recognition for Trial(s) Contribution Clare Calvert (OCTRU Hub) 
Publication of the Year VROOM Effect of a 2-week interruption in methotrexate treatment versus continued treatment on COVID-19 booster vaccine immunity in adults with inflammatory conditions (VROOM study): a randomised, open label, superiority trial. 
Doug Altman Award for Statistical Excellence

Susan Dutton

2021

Trial Of the Year    FUTURE-GB (SITU NDS) 
Trial Manager of the Year David Thompson (OCTO) 
Trial Innovator/Innovation of the Year Duncan Appelbe (Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care) the driving force behind a number of important innovations and capability improvements to the REDCap system. In particular, a leading role in the development of eConsent. 
Special Recognition for Trial(s) Contribution Lucy Eldridge (OCTRU IT) 
Publication of the Year GRASP Progressive exercise compared with best practice advice, with or without corticosteroid injection, for the treatment of patients with rotator cuff disorders (GRASP): a multicentre, pragmatic, 2×2 factorial, randomised controlledtrial. 
Doug Altman Award for Statistical Excellence

Ruth Knight