PICANet Team Members

Roger Parslow

The day-to-day co-ordination of the project is at present the responsibility of Dr Roger Parslow at the University of Leeds. Roger is also one of two Principal Investigators who oversee the project.

Roger Parslow is a Senior Lecturer within the Paediatric Epidemiology Group at the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (University of Leeds). Roger has worked primarily on modelling the relationship between environmental exposures and chronic childhood disease. Roger is a member of the Paediatric Critical Expert Working Group, set up in January 2005 by the NHS Information Agency to determine a Paediatric Critical Care Minimum Dataset and to advise on the development of Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) for Paediatric Critical Care. He has extensive experience in manipulating, validating and analysing large datasets from local, national and international studies.

Liz Draper

Liz Draper is the other Principal Investigator of PICANet and is based at the University of Leicester.

Liz Draper is a Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Leicester and is Director of The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies. These studies include The Neonatal Survey, the East Midlands and South Yorkshire Congenital Anomalies Register and the Leicestershire Perinatal Mortality Survey. She is also a Principal Investigator on a European 5th Framework project investigating access to intensive care for very preterm births across Europe and the follow-up of these infants.

Caroline Lamming

Caroline Lamming is the PICANet Research Nurse, based at the University of Leicester.

Caroline has worked on a number of studies relating to maternal and neonatal health, including the Trent Abdominal Wall Defect Study. Recent work has been to develop a routine system to collect outcome information about survivors of neonatal intensive care.

Before joining the University, Caroline worked at Leicester Royal Infirmary as a paediatric liaison health visitor.

Lee Norman

Lee Norman is the PICANet Database Manager based at the University of Leeds. Please contact Lee if you have database related issues.

Sarah Skinner

Sarah Skinner is the PICANet project officer based at the University of Leeds and deals with enquiries, administration, ethics issues, data reports, validation and website maintenance.

Phil McShane

Phil McShane investigates how statistics and epidemiology can improve our understanding of intensive care in children.