Professor Gordon Taylor

About me:

I am a professor of Medical Statistics based at the University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health, St Lukes Campus and I work within the Exeter Clinical trials unit.  I have been co-applicant and lead statistician on many Nationally and Internationally important research studies in a wide range of applied health conditions and have been fortunate to work with some highly motivated research teams with the focus of the work often being around the evaluation of behaviour change interventions.

I have significant experience of sitting on oversight committees (data monitoring and Ethics committee (DMEC) and Trial steering committees (TSC)) including being a member of the DMEC of two of the National COVID-19 trials (PRINCIPLE trial (A national platform trial of early treatments for COVID-19), PROTECT-Surg trials (Preventing pulmonary complications in surgical patients at risk of COVID-19)).

I have extensive experience of both reviewing and being a member of National and international and an interest in the ethics of research including acting as: Expert member of the EU Horizon Europe Ethics and Research Integrity committee. (2016 – to date), Chair of the University of Bath Ethics Committee (2016 – 18), Chair of the NHS REC for Wales (2006 – 2012).

I have co-author of four books including ‘Medical Statistics Made Easy’ now in its 4th Edition, widely recommended on a variety of courses and programmes internationally, from undergraduate medicine, through to professional medical qualifications and consistently the #1 bestseller in Medical Statistics on Amazon.

Qualifications:

• PhD (Applied Mathematics)
• MSc (Statistics with applications in Medicine)
• BSc (hons) Mathematical sciences