Alex Mitchell
Research Fellow (Statistician)

Profile

Biography

Alex joined the York Trials Unit in 2017, after completing undergraduate and postgraduate studies at King's College London and The University of Sheffield respectively. He has experience providing statistical support in a range of areas, including smoking cessation, orthopaedic surgery and diagnostic accuracy studies. 

Qualifications

• MSc Statistics With Medical Applications (2017), University of Sheffield
• MSci Mathematics and Physics (2016), King’s College London

Research

Projects

• ACTIVE - A RCT assessing the effectiveness of internal plate fixation versus external fine wire fixation for the management of Type C, closed pilon fractures of the distal tibia
• ARROW-Assessing the potential of a women only, gender- and trauma-informed residential rehabilitation pathway for drug dependent women leaving prison
• BAY - An RCT investigating behavioural activation for moderately to severely depressed young people in CAMHS settings
• ComBAT - Community-Based Behavioural Activation Training for Depression in Adolescents: Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) with Economic and Process Evaluations
• FARSTER-Care - An RCT investigating whether, following cardiac surgery with full median sternotomy, an accelerated cardiac rehabilitation pathway will lead to improved patient outcomes and is cost effective compared to the usual timing of cardiac rehabilitation.
• REDUCE - A pilot study of the effectiveness of an intervention to prevent diabetic foot ulcer recurrence
• SCEPTRE: A feasibility RCT of the SCEPTRE intervention to support smoking cessation and prevent relapse to tobacco use following a smoke free mental health inpatient stay
• YorQuit - A 3-arm RCT to test the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions within lung cancer screening programmes in Yorkshire

Previous Projects

• ABRA – Abracadabra an RCT of an online literacy programme for Year 1 pupils
• CPIT III – An RCT to determine the effectiveness of providing financial incentives to pregnant smokers to encourage smoking cessation
• FARSTER – A mixed methods feasibility study of early outpatient review and early cardiac rehabilitation after coronary artery bypass grafting
• Gateway – An RCT examining the effectiveness of an out-of-court community-based intervention aimed at improving health and well-being for young adult offenders
• IMPASS-The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Severe Mental Illness and on Mental Health Service Provision in South Asia
• KReBs – A RCT of the effect of a Two-layer Compression Bandage System on Knee Function following Total Knee Arthroplasty
• SCI-napse – A pilot study followed by a full-scale pragmatic RCT evaluating the impact of a game-based approach to whole class teaching on pupils’ learning.
• TIDE - An RCT investigating whether there are effective alternatives to nasal mupirocin for early decolonisation of MRSA amongst adult hospital in-patients

Research group(s)

• Trials and Statistics

Publications

Full publications list

Alex Mitchell's publications

External activities

Memberships

• York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Research and Development Group Committee Member