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PICANet Team Members
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Roger Parslow
The day-to-day co-ordination of the project is at present the responsibility of Roger Parslow at the University of Leeds. Roger is also one of the three principle 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
Tricia McKinney and Liz Draper
Tricia McKinney and Liz Draper are two of the Principle Investigators for PICANet
Tricia McKinney is a Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology and Director of the Paediatric Epidemiology Group, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds. She has an extensive experience of epidemiological and health service research specifically focussed in paediatrics. Her interest in the current study is to lead on describing the epidemiology of critical illness.
Liz Draper is a Professor in the Department of Health Sciences in Leicester and 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 principle 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.
She 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.
Krish Thiru
Krish Thiru is the Pan Thames PICANet Co-ordinator based within Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. He has 14 years of research and development experience within the NHS, working in primary, secondary, community and tertiary care settings. His academic work has been focussed on health informatics for public heath, clinical care, audit and research. His particular interests are in Clinical Information and Electronic Patient Record systems, quality control and assurance of population databases and medical language systems.
Andrew Shearing
Andrew Shearing is the PICANet project officer based in Leeds and deals with all enquiries, administration, ethics issues, data reports and website maintenance.
Phil McShane
Phil McShane has joined the PICANet team to investigate how statistics and epidemiology can improve our understanding of intensive care in children.
Adrian Ashley
Adrian Ashley is the PICANet Database Manager, based at Leeds University, and is responsible for ensuring a high level of data security and efficient processing of the PICANet dataset. They provide comprehensive programming support, to enable the production of routine and ad hoc reports as well as answering technical queries from data entry personnel in paediatric intensive care units throughout the UK. he is responsible for implementing dataset changes and developing improved reporting and data validation algorithms, and will also be involved in developing a proposed a web-based interface for authorised individuals to input data online and to interrogate the national and local databases interactively
