Research Assistant
Manchester, United Kingdom
Responsibilities Project coordination-The National Institute for Health Research, Health Technology Award funded project titled "Calculating when elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair improves survival for individual patients: development of the Aneurysm Repair Decision Aid and economic evaluation" -The Greater Manchester vascular cardiopulminary exercise testing group Data management, cleaning and analysis- Maintaining and cleaning the vascular governance north west (VGNW) regional database (patients~7000, surgeons~70, hospitals~20) - Survival analysis following abdominal aortic aneurysm repair for the National Institute of Health Research Report. (n=4070) - Health Economic Analysis for a subset of the VGNW database to assess cost effectivness and utility of a national screening program (n=130) Web development. - Made the website www.britishaneurysmrepairscore.com AccomplishmentsResearch Grants-Inovate UK SMART Award (2014): $151,835.00 Publications-Grant SW, Sperrin M, Carlson E, et al. Calculating when elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair improves survival for individual patients: development of the Aneurysm Repair Decision Aid and economic evaluation. Southampton (UK). NIHR Journals Library; 2015 Apr. (Health Technology Assessment, No 19.32.) DOI: 10.3310/hta19320 -Grant SW, Hickey GL, Carlson ED, McCollum CN. (2014) Comparison of three contemporary risk scores for mortality following elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 48(1), 38-44. eScholar ID:262076 | DOI:10.1016/j.ejvs.2014.03.040 -Grant SW, Hickey GL, Wisely NA, Carlson ED, et al. (2015). Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and survival after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. British Journal of Anesthesia. 114(3):430-6. DOI:10.1093/bja/aeu383