Professor William Henley

William Henley is Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Exeter Medical School. He leads medical statistics across the Medical School, and is Head of the Health Statistics Group.

Interests:

• Analysis of longitudinal, multilevel and survival data
• Quasi-experimental analytic methods for strengthening causal inference from observational studies
• Design and analysis of cohort and other epidemiological studies
• Epidemiology of ageing, disability and chronic disease
• Statistical methods in bioinformatics

A current focus of his research is on the development and application of methodology for evaluating medical treatments using observational patient data. His collaborations include providing statistical leadership for the Exeter component of the Healthy Ageing theme of the NIHR National School for Public Health. Another growing area of research interest is the development of a statistical framework for treatment stratification for chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes.

Career:

William has worked as an applied statistician for over 20 years and has broad experience of statistical consultancy in academia and industry. He received his undergraduate training in Mathematics at the University of Oxford, before studying for a PhD at the Open University on statistical methods for credit scoring, under the supervision of Professor David Hand. William has held postdoctoral positions in statistical epidemiology at the University of Oxford and the Animal Health Trust. Prior to joining the University of Exeter, he was Associate Professor (Reader) in Statistics in the Centre for Health and Environmental Statistics at Plymouth University. In 2010, he was seconded to the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for the South West Peninsula (PenCLAHRC). He was appointed to a Chair in Medical Statistics at UEMS in May 2012.

Adam Streeter is a freelance Senior Statistician based in Münster, Germany, and honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Medical School. He leads research into the development and application of methods for analysing observational patient data in a variety of therapeutic areas.

Interests:

• Quasi-experimental study designs and method for causal inference from observational data
• Design and analysis of experiments
• Design and analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCT)
• Analysis of clustered, longitudinal and survival data

He has worked in a variety of therapeutic areas across industry and academia: haematology, neurology, respiratory medicine, endocrinology, surgery, dentistry, forensic medicine.

Career:

Adam worked for over 10 years leading the validation of laboratory equipment at an international manufacturer of medical devices, where he gained his MSc in Applied Statistics through distance learning. He has also worked in academia as pediatric diabetes before gaining his PhD in Medical Statistics at Exeter University. Since then he has worked as a Statistician at a clinical trials unit on RCTs in a wide variety of therapeutic areas: oncology, metabolic health, physical activity, mental health, neurology. He has also taught statistics on a course in evidence-based medicine to undergraduate students of medicine and surgery. He is currently leading international collaborative methodological research into quasi-experimental methods and studies in infectious disease epidemiology and respiratory medicine.

Volker Kraft is Principal Academic Ambassador for JMP in Europe, fostering and supporting the use of JMP in teaching and research.

He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and used statistical methods extensively in his research in communication acoustics. In later positions he developed a passion for customer advocacy. Drawing on this experience and the success of JMP's Academic Program globally, Volker is charged with enabling academics in Europe to get the most from JMP.