Eleanor Temple

I have been working in the statistics team in the clinical trials unit since 2020. I joined the clinical trials unit as a clinical trial manager in 2016, managing the multi-centre OPTiMISE trial. OPTiMISE's aim was to measure safety (by way of blood pressure control after 12 weeks) of removing one antihypertensive medication in elderly patients with hypertension. I then studied part-time MSc Medical Statistics at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine alongside that role from 2018 to 2020.

As a medical statistician I have analysed the long-term mortality and hospitalisation outcomes of the OPTiMISE trial, which has involved using trial-collected data as well as routinely collected hospital data from NHS England and mortality data. This follow-up has now been published and I am proud to have been a part of this work as a trial manager and as a medical statistician.

I have also worked on behavioural, sleep studies, such as the HABIT study (Health professional Administered Brief Insomnia Therapy Study), psychiatry trials, such as the PAX-D trial (Evaluating efficacy and mechanism of pramipexole as add-on treatment for people with treatment-resistant depression) as well as other cardiovascular disease studies, such as TASMIN5S (Towards an integrated self-monitoring solution for stroke/TIA:The BP:Together study).