Professor Catherine Hewitt
Deputy Director, York Trials Unit

Profile

Biography

Cath works as Deputy Director of the York Trials Unit and also as a senior statistician on a variety of trials.

Qualifications

• BSC  Mathematics and Statistics
• MSC  Mathematics
• PhD  Health Sciences

Departmental roles

• Senior statistician
• Deputy Chair of Graduate School Board

Research

Projects

• Calderdale 2 - Independent Evaluation of using self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) and memorable experiences to improve writing quality.
• CASPER PLUS - Collaborative care in screen positive elders with major depressive disorders.
• CHEMIST - Community Pharmacies Mood Intervention Study (CHEMIST): A Feasibility and Pilot Study.
• Connect project -  Co-Production of Policing Evidence, Research and Training: Focus Mental Health.
• CPIT III - The Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy Incentives Trial: A Multi-centre phase III Randomised Controlled Trial.
• FARSTER - Feasibilty study of early outpatient review and early cardiac rehabilitation after coronary artery bypass grafting.
• Gentle Years Yoga (GYY) - Individually randomised controlled, two arm, pragmatic, multi-centre trial to determine the clinical and cost-effectiveness of an adapted yoga programme for older adults with multimorbidity.
• HERO - Hydroxychloroquine Effectiveness in Reducing symptoms of hand Osteoarthritis.
• Online Maths Tuition - Independent Evaluation of the Third Space Learning’s Online Maths Tuition Service – A cluster randomised controlled trial.
• Maths Champions
• OTIS - Occupational Therapist Intervention Study.
• Project-Based Learning - an approach to instruction in which all lessons and activities are organised around a single complex enquiry or project.
• ProFHER - Proximal Fracture of the Humerus: Evaluation by Randomisation.
• PROFHER 2 - Proximal Fracture of the Humerus: Evaluation by Randomisation Trial no.2.
• PROLLIT: Patient Reported Outcome Measure for Lower Limb Reconstruction
• PROMOTE - Placebo-controlled trial of methotrecate to treat painful knee osteoarthritis.
• REFORM - A randomised study in elders falling.
• RESPECT - Randomised Evaluation Sexual Health Promotion Evidence for Care and Treatment: A feasibility study of an intervention to promote sexual health for people with serious mental illness (SMI).
• SCIMITAR+
• SCI-napse
• SCOOP - Screening for osteoporosis in older women for the prevention of fractures.
• SWIFFT - Scaphoid Waist Internal Fixation for Fractures.
• Teensleep - Independent Evaluation of Project Teensleep: A Factoral Cluster Randomised Contrlled Trial.
• UK FROST - United Kingdom Frozen Shoulder Trial.

Research group(s)

• Trials and Statistics

Supervision

Catherine supervises PhDs in the following areas: randomised controlled trials, statistics, systematic reviews, bias, diagnostic reviews, meta-analysis.

Current PhD Supervisees

• Jassas Alotaibi
• Abdulaziz Alrashid
• Samantha Gascoine
• Claire Gill
• Lazaro Mwandigha
• Simen Svenkerud
• Jennifer Sweetman

Publications

Full publications list

• Catherine Hewitt's publications

External activities

Memberships

Catherine is a member of the following panels and committees:

• Cross-Whitehall trials advice panel
• HTA comissioning board
• Speciality examiner for the Royal College of Radiologists, Clinical Oncology part 1 exam

Catherine is also part of the following Data monitoring and ethics committees (DMEC):

• NATTINA - The National Trial of Tonsillectomy in Adults, Newcastle
• MINIDEX, Oxford
• DAFNE plus - Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating, Sheffield
• BOOST - Better Outcomes for Older People with Spinal Trouble, OXFORD
• FISCU - , Sheffield

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Module leader for Introduction to Health Statistics
• Understanding Clinical Statistics
• Measurement in Health and Disease