Joanna Moschandreas
BSc, MSc, MSc, PhD
Senior Medical Statistician
I am a medical statistician at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) providing input to, and statistical management of, collaborative clinical trials (currently CAMELLIA, Cytofloc, DEBIOC, FOXFIRE, IntReALL SR, NuTide:301, and PemBla). I have extensive experience collaborating on health research projects in fields such as cardiovascular medicine, gastroenterology, nutrition, oncology, paediatrics and public health, and have co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications and a number of external scientific reports. As ophthalmological data analysis is a long-standing interest of mine, I am a member of the NIHR Statistics group – ophthalmology research section and the Ophthalmic Statistics Group.
I provide independent review for statistical study reports, journal submissions and grant applications at a national and international level. I serve as a statistical adviser on the editorial boards of Annals of Gastroenterology and BMC Ophthalmology. I am also one of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) advisors for the South Central Research Design Service.
I am experienced in teaching medical statistics to biomedical researchers; as an assistant professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Crete for over eight years, I taught medical statistics courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. At CSM, I have presented at an Advanced Topics workshop and I facilitate on the annual CSM Randomised Controlled Trials course.
I graduated from Sheffield University with a BSc in Mathematics (1993) and completed an MSc in Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford (1994). After working as a medical statistician, I undertook an MSc in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis at the University of Edinburgh (2000) and a PhD in Health Sciences (2002) at the University of Crete, Greece. In 2011, I spent two months at the University of Minnesota, USA, as a Fulbright Research Scholar.
My career in medical statistics started at the Biostatistics Unit of the University of Crete, where I collaborated on a WHO project aiming to set up a Cretan Cancer Registry. I joined CSM as a senior medical statistician in 2015.
Recent Publications
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First-line selective internal radiotherapy plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone in patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer (FOXFIRE, SIRFLOX, and FOXFIRE-Global): a combined analysis of three multicentre, randomised, phase 3 trials.
Wasan HS. et al, (2017), The Lancet. Oncology
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Protocol for Combined Analysis of FOXFIRE, SIRFLOX, and FOXFIRE-Global Randomized Phase III Trials of Chemotherapy +/- Selective Internal Radiation Therapy as First-Line Treatment for Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.
Virdee PS. et al, (2017), JMIR research protocols, 6
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Interpretation of effect estimates in competing risks survival models: A simulated analysis of organ-specific progression-free survival in a randomised phase III cancer trial
Virdee P. et al, (2016)
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Toxoplasmosis in female high school students, pregnant women and ruminants in Cyprus.
Liassides M. et al, (2016), Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 110, 359 - 366
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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
Forouzanfar MH. et al, (2015), Lancet (London, England), 386, 2287 - 2323
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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition.
Murray CJ. et al, (2015), Lancet (London, England), 386, 2145 - 2191
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General Practitioners' intention to prescribe and prescribing patterns in selected European settings: The OTCSOCIOMED project.
Tsiantou V. et al, (2015), Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 119, 1265 - 1274
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Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
(2015), Lancet (London, England), 386, 743 - 800
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Reporting effectiveness of an extract of three traditional Cretan herbs on upper respiratory tract infection: results from a double-blind randomized controlled trial.
Duijker G. et al, (2015), Journal of ethnopharmacology, 163, 157 - 166
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Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
(2015), Lancet (London, England), 385, 117 - 171