Livingstone S

Biography

Shona is an applied statistician (MSc Applied Statistics, St Catherine’s College Oxford. 1990) with a background in pure science (Joint Honours Chemistry and Biochemistry. Imperial College London, 1988). She has worked in both epidemiological and clinical trial settings and a variety of therapeutic areas (cardiothoric surgery,  HIV disease surveillance and clinical trials and diabetes). Since 2008 she has worked at the University of Dundee as a statistician/epidemiologist focusing mainly on Diabetes related complications using Scottish wide epidemiological data, but has also worked on clinical trial data from the Collaborative Atorvastatin Diabetes Study (CARDS), which she first worked on in 2001 while at University College London.

Research Interest

Using data from Scottish data-linkage systems and clinical databases to study the epidemiology of diabetes complications and the safety of drugs. Secondary analyses of clinical trial data from Collaborative Atorvastatin Diabetes Study (CARDS). Main statistical expertise: survival analysis and the analysis of longitudinal data.