Elizabeth Conroy

I work with medical professionals to design, achieve grant funding, conduct, analyse and report randomised clinical trials. I have a particular interest in trials that investigate surgical and other complex interventions. My specific areas of interest include trials involving clustering or learning effects at the centre- or treatment-provider-level and methods to mitigate these effects through design and analysis. 

I am a current NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award holder (2026-2029) exploring the role of adaptive designs and machine learning applied to complex interventions, in particular surgery. I am statistical co-applicant on a number of NIHR funded studies, such as ACL-STARR, PREPARE-Kids and  TAILOR. I also provide supervision to post-graduate students (MSc, PhD).

Before joining OCTRU and CSM as Lead Statistician in January 2022, I worked at the Liverpool Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) as a Senior Trial Statistician for 11 years. I completed an Doctoral Fellowship (PhD), funded by the National Institute of Health Research. My thesis was entitled: Learning and clustering: statistical adjustment for the learning curve and clustering effects in randomised surgical trials. I previously obtained an MSc in Statistics with Medical Application and a BSc in Mathematics at the University of Sheffield.

Externally, I serve as the independent statistician on data monitoring and trial steering committees and peer review for various medical and trials methodology journals.