Now more than ever, Academy Statistics offers you both consultations and comprehensive expertise. The consulting service has been extended to 2015 and may expand in the face of growing needs. Sahlgrenska Academy is simultaneously setting up a new health metrics unit.
Medisam has extended its support for the Academy Statistics consulting service to 2015. Academy Statistics offers you up to four hours of consultations for planning projects, managing and analyzing data, interpreting results, understanding peer reviews, etc. Research teams at the Academy and Sahlgrenska University received approximately 160 consultations in 1014. Academy Statistics also offers comprehensive expertise on a nonprofit basis. As a result of the growing demand for long-term assistance, the equivalent of 5-6 full-time appointments are devoted to research projects at the Academy and University.
The service, which has been structured as a research team since starting up in 2011, engages nine statisticians and a professor of health economics. A health metrics unit is now being set up to promote further expansion and handle the mounting demand for advanced statistics and health economics. The unit, which will still be self-financed and assume academy-wide responsibilities, focuses on research and instruction in biostatistics, epidemiology and health economics, as well as the consulting services of Academy Statistics.
“Among our most important responsibilities is a part-time appointment to support statistical supervision during a medical student’s degree project,” says Professor Max Petzold, director of the new health metrics unit. “As a result, we will be involved in virtually all degree programs at the Academy.”
A reference group that is being led by Professor Kjell Torén and that includes representatives of all institutes at the Academy, as well as the University and Register Center West, emerged in 2014 to support the effort.
Following are the members of the Academy Statistics team.
- Max Petzold, PhD, professor, director of the unit
Longitudinal analysis, register-based studies and data safety monitoring committees - Mikael Svensson, PhD, visiting professor of health economics
Health economics, including register-based studies - Catrin Wessman, PhD, senior lecturer
Propensity score matching, survival analysis and register-based studies - Martin Adiels, PhD, senior lecturer
Metabolic studies, rating of individual and population characteristics - Anna Ekman, PhD, assistant senior lecturer
Questionnaire studies, pain studies, Markow models and causal inference - David Bock, PhD, assistant university lecturer
Randomized controlled studies - Thomas Karlsson, Bachelor of Science, researcher
Cardiovascular studies - Tatiana Sandström, Bachelor of Science, researcher
Database management, register-based studies - Kjell Pettersson, Degree of Licentiate, lecturer
40 years of experience of medical studies - Madeleine Retamales Toro, Bachelor of Science
You are more than welcome to contact Professor Petzold at 0703-867077 or max.petzold@gu.se for additional information or a meeting with your research team. Learn more about the unit at www.akademistatistik.gu.se. Street address: Medicinaregatan 18G, 4th floor of the Register Center