Rebecca Smith
Research Fellow (Statistician)

Profile

Biography

Becky joined the York Trials Unit in June 2024 as a statistician. She has previous experience in genetic epidemiology and working on early-phase clinical trials in the industry.

Qualifications

• MSc Statistics
• MSci Natural Sciences

Research

Projects

• BioDriveAFS – an RCT investigating the impact of a biomarker driven Antifungal Stewardship strategy on antifungal drug use and health related quality of life for patients with acute leukaemia
• N-READY - Improving Effectiveness of Nicotine replacement Therapy
• 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
• 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.
• SaSI-MEDs - Single and Safe Intervention for MEDication administration – The development and evaluation of an intervention to de-implement unnecessary double-checking of medicines in hospital

Research group(s)

• Trials and Statistics

Publications

Full publications list

• Rebecca Smith's publications