Nicole Skoetz

Biography

 She has been member of numerous Cochrane committees, e.g., the Monitoring and Registration Committee, Methods Application and Review Standards, Managing Editors Executive, Coordinating Editors Executive and Cochrane Cancer.  Her goal is to combine expertise from Cochrane Review Groups and Methods groups to identify gaps in review production in the field of cancer; engage with stakeholders; co-operate with international organisations and apply for funding collaboratively.  Her role in guideline development reflects her strong interest in interactive summary of finding tables (iSOF). She also leads a project within GRADE to give guidance on how to correctly use this tool for time-to-event outcomes and hazard ratios. Nicole's principal interest is to be involved in new developments and structural changes of Cochrane awris proposed in the Strategic Plan 2020.

Research Interest

Nicole Skoetz is the Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Haematological Malignancies (CHM) Group and the Scientific Co-ordinator of the Working Group Standard Operating Procedures of the Comprehensive Cancer Centres based at the University Hospital of Cologne, Germany.  Active in Cochrane since 2002, Nicole was first a consumer co-ordinator and author, then Managing Editor before she took up her current role.