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Catriona McDaid
Professor of Applied Health Research

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Biography

Catriona is an applied health researcher based in York Trials Unit. She has a long-standing interest in the evaluation of complex interventions, most recently evaluation of surgical interventions. She has worked in health technology assessment since 2002 and has undertaken health technology assessments of pharmacological, behavioural, surgical and policy interventions. She has experience in leading systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials, feasibility studies and mixed methods studies.

She is Co-director of the NIHR RSS Hub delivered by University of York and Partners.

Qualifications

  • BSc Psychology (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  • MSc Science Communication (Queen’s University/Dublin City University)
  • PhD The Neuropsychological Sequelae of Transient Brain Insult (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  • Post-graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (University of York)

Departmental roles

  • York Trials Unit Senior Management Team

University roles

  • Director for the ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) Wellbeing, Health and Communities Pathway, October 2018 to September 2020
  • Department of Health Sciences Research Committee

Research

Overview

Key areas of interest and experience:

  • Evaluation of complex interventions (in particular orthopaedic surgery)
  • Randomised controlled trials
  • Feasibility studies
  • Mixed methods
  • Evidence synthesis (including systematic reviews, coping reviews, rapid reviews)

Projects

  • ACTIVE: Articular type C pilon fracture trial: internal versus external fixation
  • DIDACT: Surgery or sling immobilisation for adults with displaced fracture of the distal clavicle
  • HAMLET - A multicentre, two-arm, non-blinded, pragmatic, parallel group, randomised controlled superiority trial assessing the clinical and cost effectiveness of Through Knee Amputation (TKA) compared to Above Knee Amputation (AKA) in patients requiring major lower limb amputations (MMLA), but who are unsuitable for a Below Knee Amputation (BKA).
  • L1FE: Lateral Compression Type-1 fracture fixation in the elderly
  • OPAL2 - A multi-centre RCT comparing the OPAL occupational support programme with usual care on the time to return-to-work in patients undergoing elective hip or knee replacement surgery.
  • PORTRAIT - an RCT investigating whether pain and quality of life are improved with post-operative radiotherapy compared to no radiotherapy and whether radiotherapy reduces the likelihood of further surgery in the future.
  • PROFHER 2: PROximal Fracture of the Humerus: Evaluation by Randomisation Trial no. 2
  • RAPSODI: Reverse or Anatomical replacement for Painful Shoulder Osteoarthritis, Differences between Interventions
  • RESTART PD - A multicentre, two-arm, non-blinded, pragmatic, parallel group, randomised controlled superiority trial with the aim of assessing the clinical and cost effectiveness of Reality DTx®compared with traditional physiotherapy for patients with Parkinson’s Disease.
  • SOFFT: Simple Olecranon Fracture Fixation Trial

Completed Projects

Research group(s)

Supervision

Current

  • Tonya Yakimova – Reporting and utilisation of baseline characteristics in RCTs: a focus on employment characteristics

     

  • Sophie James – Defining and measuring patient acceptability in orthopaedic surgery: a multi-phase project to develop and implement a measurement instrument

     

  • Nicole O’Connor – Horizon scanning for research methods

     

  • Andrew Mott (mentor) – Interventions targeted at researchers to improve the conduct of trials

Completed

  • Mark Corbett PhD by publication, Quality assessment of healthcare intervention studies in systematic reviews: improving established tools and approaches for context-specific assessments
  • Alison Booth PhD by publication, Systematic review protocol registration and reporting guidelines: development, implementation, assessment and utility.
  • Ashley Scrimshire, Quality Improvement for Surgical Teams
  • Helen Ingoe MD, Surgical rib fracture fixation: systematic review of effectiveness, assessment of current UK practice and development of a core outcome set
  • Nickil Agni, Efficient study design, high dose antibiotic loaded cement for hip arthroplasty patient
  • Adam Watts (Commenced November 2020), Clinical trials in low volume orthopaedic arthroplasty surgery: measurement tools and trial design.
  • Fiona Ashton Calcific tendinitis in the shoulder

Publications

Full publications list

Teaching

Postgraduate

  • Contributes to Postgraduate Certificate in Health Research Methods
  • Lead for Systematic Reviews Module, 2015/16 to 2019/20
  • Teaching on MSc Module on Research Methods, 2015/16 to 2019/20

External activities

Memberships

Current

  • Senior Journal Editor NIHR HTA Journal
  • Chair Orthopaedic Research UK Scientific Advisory Committee
  • NIHR Academy Doctoral Fellowship Committee (2025 to present)
  • NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research and Programme Development Grants (2020 to present)
  • NIHR Research Support Service Methodology Advisory Committee
  • Trial Steering Committee Chair - Op or Non-STOP Study (Operative or Non-Surgical Treatment of Perthes' Disease): A multi-centre prospective randomised superiority trial of containment surgery compared to best conservative treatment for Perthes’ disease of the hip in children (University of Oxford)
  • Programme Steering Committee Chair - Combat fatigue: co-production and evaluation of a self-management intervention for post-stroke fatigue (NIHR205012) (University of Birmingham & University of Cambridge)

Previous

  • NIHR Academy Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Selection Committee (2019-2024)
  • Associate Editor BMC Systematic Reviews (2014-17)

Catriona McDaid

Contact details

Dr Catriona McDaid
Professor of Applied Health Research

Tel: 01904 32(1371)

@healthsciyork