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Prof Elizabeth Williamson

Prof of Biostats & Health Data Science

United Kingdom

Tel.
020 7927
I studied mathematics at King's College Cambridge, followed by a Masters degree in Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester. I then moved to London to begin a PhD at LSHTM under the supervision of James Carpenter, which was awarded in 2007. For the next 7 years I worked in Australia, beginning at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Unit at Sydney University, then moving to the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne, followed by positions at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. In 2014, I returned to LSHTM. Since then, my work has focused on the use of electronic health records data for health research. Initially, the work focused on missing data within causal analyses. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I was involved in the OpenSAFELY collaborative, a new platform for linked primary care record data, and contributed to using these data to answer a number of urgent health related questions through the pandemic. Since then, my methodological interests have broadened to encompass statistical challenges of both causal analyses and risk prediction using data from electronic health records.

Affiliations

Department of Medical Statistics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health

Teaching

I led the development of the new MSc in Health Data Science, which will have its first student intake in September 2020. I acted as Programme Director for the initial phases - securing funding, assembling the development team and mapping out the curriculum. As part of this, I co-developed the Data Challenge and Statistics for Health Data Science modules. I am currently the module organiser for the module Analysis of Electronic Health Record data, which I also co-developed.

I have successfully supervised five doctoral students to completion and currently supervise three doctoral students.

Research

I am particularly interested in the methods used to make causal statements and to generate clinical risk predictions using routinely collected data. These sorts of data bring many challenges, including measured and unmeasured confounding, time-varying exposures and confounding (for causal analyses), changes in medication use over time and measurement error. A huge range of statistical techniques have been proposed to deal with these challenges, including extended implementations of multiple imputation, propensity scores, marginal structural models, series of sequential trials, for the causal analyses, and causal risk prediction approaches for risk prediction. Understanding whether these techniques provide valid results in real life scenarios, and identifying situations in which the simpler approaches are sufficient is critical to allow researchers to draw valid and robust conclusions from these data.

Key collaborators at LSHTM include: James Carpenter, Ian Douglas, Clemence Leyrat, John Tazare and Liam Smeeth.
Research Area
Electronic health records
Methodology
Statistical methods
Pharmacoepidemiology
Disease and Health Conditions
Kidney disease
Non-communicable diseases
Chronic diseases
Cardiovascular diseases

Selected Publications

Hulme, WJ; WILLIAMSON, E; Horne, EM F; Green, A; McDonald, HI; Walker, AJ; Curtis, HJ; Morton, CE; MacKenna, B; Croker, R; Mehrkar, A; Bacon, S; Evans, D; Inglesby, P; Davy, S; BHASKARAN, K; SCHULTZE, A; RENTSCH, CT; TOMLINSON, L; DOUGLAS, IJ; EVANS, SJ W; SMEETH, L; Palmer, T; GOLDACRE, B; Hern谩n, MA; ... Sterne, JA C.
2023
Annals of internal medicine
S茅galas, C; LEYRAT, C; CARPENTER, JR; WILLIAMSON, E;
2023
Statistics in medicine
Tackney, MS; Morris, T; White, I; LEYRAT, C; Diaz-Ordaz, K; WILLIAMSON, E;
2023
Trials
Tackney, MS; Stahl, D; WILLIAMSON, E; CARPENTER, J;
2022
Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour
Morris, TP; Walker, AS; WILLIAMSON, EJ; White, IR;
2022
Trials
OpenSAFELY Collaborative,; WILLIAMSON, EJ; TAZARE, J; BHASKARAN, K; MCDONALD, HI; Walker, AJ; Tomlinson, L; WING, K; Bacon, S; Bates, C; Curtis, HJ; FORBES, HJ; Minassian, C; Morton, CE; Nightingale, E; Mehrkar, A; Evans, D; Nicholson, BD; LEON, DA; Inglesby, P; MacKenna, B; Davies, NG; DeVito, NJ; Drysdale, H; Cockburn, J; ... GOLDACRE, B.
2022
Diagnostic and prognostic research
Hulme, W; WILLIAMSON, E; Green, A; BHASKARAN, K; MCDONALD, H; RENTSCH, C; SCHULTZE, A; TAZARE, J; Curtis, H; Walker, A; TOMLINSON, L; Palmer, T; Horne, E; MacKenna, B; Morton, C; Mehrkar, A; Fisher, L; Bacon, S; Evans, D; Inglesby, P; Hickman, G; Davy, S; Ward, T; Croker, R; EGGO, R; ... GOLDACRE, B.
2021
medRxiv
Hardelid, P; Christen, P; WILLIAMSON, E; Harron, K; De Stavola, BL;
2021
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
WILLIAMSON, EJ; MCDONALD, HI; BHASKARAN, K; Walker, AJ; Bacon, S; Davy, S; SCHULTZE, A; TOMLINSON, L; Bates, C; Ramsay, M; Curtis, HJ; FORBES, H; WING, K; MINASSIAN, C; TAZARE, J; Morton, CE; NIGHTINGALE, E; Mehrkar, A; Evans, D; Inglesby, P; MacKenna, B; Cockburn, J; RENTSCH, CT; MATHUR, R; WONG, AY S; ... KUPER, H.
2021
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
TACKNEY, MS; Cook, DG; Stahl, D; Ismail, K; WILLIAMSON, E; CARPENTER, J;
2021
Trials