Contact information
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Colleges
Collaborators
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Sarah Darby
Professor of Medical Statistics
Usama Ali
BSc (Hons), MSc
DPhil Student
Passionate about improving and developing population health through innovative and collaborative clinical research.
DPhil Project Title
Epidemiology of Primary Brain and Central Nervous System Tumours in England: Analysis of linked cancer registry and hospital record data
Summary & Background
Usama's research is focused on the epidemiology of primary tumours of the brain and central nervous system (CNS). In particular, he is involved in studying the health and outcomes of people diagnosed with primary brain and other central nervous system tumours.
He is investigating long-term patterns and trends in incidence, survival and mortality for CNS tumours, as well as identifying geographic variation and healthcare inequalities in access to treatments and care. He is conducting a large-scale study based on the entire population of England using high-quality data spanning several decades.
Capturing the patient journey leading up to diagnosis, as well as from diagnosis through treatment and beyond, may provide valuable insights into the patient and health/social care burden of this debilitating and potentially fatal disease; a disease that often causes substantial morbidity and is currently the leading cause of cancer deaths in people under the age of 40 in the UK.
Prior to Oxford Population Health, Usama worked as a Medical Statistician at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford. There, he worked on a wide range of clinical trials and observational studies, funded by a National Institute for Health Research Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care grant.
Usama holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Master of Science degree in Medical Statistics. His MSc thesis was entitled: ‘Incorporating Real World Evidence with Randomised Controlled Trials in Network Meta-Analysis: A Case Study on Multiple Sclerosis’.
Usama is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and also a member of the National Cancer Research Institute Brain Tumour Group, the British Neuro-Oncology Society, the Society of British Neurological Surgeons and the Society for Neuro-Oncology.
Additional Roles
- NDPH Student Committee
- Medical Sciences Division (MSD) Graduate Joint Consultative Committee
- Oxford Medical Statistics Network (OxStat) Committee
- British Neuro-Oncology Society Student-Trainee Subcommittee
Usama has also undergone training by the University as a Peer Supporter and can be contacted by students from across all departments within the MSD for peer support.
Supervisors
- Sarah Darby, Professor of Medical Statistics, Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health
https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/sarah-darby
- Andrew Judge, Professor of Translational Statistics, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences
https://www.csm.ox.ac.uk/team/andrew-judge
- Puneet Plaha, Consultant Neurooncology Surgeon & Honorary Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/puneet-plaha
Recent publications
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Temporal trends in the incidence of malignant and nonmalignant primary brain and central nervous system tumors by the method of diagnosis in England, 1993-2017.
Journal article
Ali UM. et al, (2023), Neuro Oncol, 25, 1177 - 1192
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External validation and recalibration of an incidental meningioma prognostic model - IMPACT: protocol for an international multicentre retrospective cohort study.
Journal article
Islim AI. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12
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Evaluation of the implementation of the Back Skills Training (BeST) programme using online training: a cohort implementation study.
Journal article
Sugavanam T. et al, (2020), Physiotherapy, 109, 4 - 12
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SURGEONS TRIAL OF PROPHYLAXIS FOR EPILEPSY IN SEIZURE NAIVE PATIENTS WITH MENINGIOMA: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (STOP 'EM)
Conference paper
Jenkinson M. et al, (2020), NEURO-ONCOLOGY, 22, 195 - 195
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Treatment of newly diagnosed glioblastoma in the elderly: a network meta-analysis
Journal article
Hanna C. et al, (2020), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews