Staff Profile

Overview

I am a biostatistician (research associate) based in the Population Health Sciences Institute working on a number of clinical trials and observational studies. I am a member of the PHSI Biostatistics Research Group.

Previous positions

• Research associate in Statistical Genetics, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University

Qualifications

• PhD, Newcastle University (2009 - 2013) 
• MMathStat, Newcastle University (2005 - 2009)

• Fisher H, Oluboyede Y, Chadwick T, Abdel-Fattah M, Brennand C, Fader M, Harrison S, Hilton P, Larcombe J, Little P, McClurg D, McColl E, Ndow J, Ternent L, Timoney A, Vale L, Thiruchelvam N, von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff A, Wilkinson J, Walton K, Wood R, Pickard RS. Continuous low-dose antibiotic prophylaxis for adults with repeated urinary tract infections (AnTIC): a randomised, open-label trial. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2018, 18(9), 957-968.
• Boys RJ, Ainsworth HF, Gillespie CS. Bayesian inference for a partially observed birth-death process using data on proportions. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 2018, 60(2), 157-173.
• Pickard RS, Chadwick T, Oluboyede Y, Brennand C, von Willamowitz-Moellendorff A, McClurg D, Wilkinson J, Ternent L, Ainsworth H, Walton K, McColl E, Vale L, Wood R, Abdel-Fattah M, Hilton P, Fader M, Harrison S, Larcombe J, Little P, Timoney A, N'Dow J, Armstrong H, Morris N, Walker K, Thiruchelvam N. Continuous low-dose antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent urinary tract infection in adults who perform clean intermittent self-catheterisation: the AnTIC RCT. Health Technology Assessment 2018, 22(24), i-102.
• McClurg D, Walker K, Pickard R, Hilton P, Ainsworth H, Leonard K, Suresh S, Nilsson A, Gillespie N. Participant experiences of clean intermittent self-catheterisation, urinary tract infections and antibiotic use on the ANTIC trial – A qualitative study. International Journal of Nursing Studies 2018, 81, 1-7.
• Ainsworth HE, Unwin J, Jamison DL, Cordell HJ. Investigation of Maternal Effects, Maternal-Fetal Interactions and Parent-of-Origin Effects (Imprinting), Using Mothers and Their Offspring. Genetic Epidemiology 2011, 35(1), 19-45.
• Ainsworth HF, Shin SY, Cordell HJ. A comparison of methods for inferring causal relationships between genotype and phenotype using multi-omics data. In: 2015 Annual Meeting of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society. 2015, Baltimore, MD, USA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
• Ainsworth HF, Shin S-Y, Cordell HJ. A comparison of methods for inferring causal relationships between genotype and phenotype using additional biological measurements. Genetic Epidemiology 2017, 41(7), 577-586.
• Soomro N, Lecouturier J, Stocken DD, Shen J, Hynes AM, Ainsworth HF, Breen D, Oades G, Rix D, Aitchison M. Surveillance versus ablation for incidentally diagnosed small renal tumours: The SURAB feasibility RCT. Health Technology Assessment 2017, 21(81), 1-68.
• Pazderska A, Oftedal BE, Napier CM, Ainsworth HF, Husebye ES, Cordell HJ, Pearce SHS, Mitchell AL. A Variant in the BACH2 Gene Is Associated With Susceptibility to Autoimmune Addison's Disease in Humans. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2016, 101(11), 3865-3869.
• Ainsworth HF, Cordell HJ. Using gene expression data to identify causal pathways between genotype and phenotype in a complex disease: Application to Genetic Analysis Workshop 19. In: Genetic Analysis Workshop 19: Sequence, Blood Pressure and Expression Data. 2016, Vienna, Austria: BioMed Central Ltd.
• Cordell HJ, Ainsworth HF, Unwin J. Investigation of maternal effects, maternal-foetal interactions and parent-of-origin effects (imprinting), using mothers and their offspring. In: 18th Annual Meeting of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society. 2009, Oahu, Hawaii: Genetic Epidemiology: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Alblooshi H, Al Safar H, Fisher HF, Cordell HJ, El Kashef A, Al Ghaferi H, Shawky M, Reece S, Hulse GK, Tay GK. A case-control genome wide association study of substance use disorder (SUD) identifies novel variants on chromosome 7p14.1 in patients from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 2019, 180(1), 68-79.
• Clark E, Morton M, Sharma S, Fisher H, Howel D, Walker J, Wood R, Hancock H, Maier R, Marshall J, Bahl A, Crabb S, Jain S, Pedley I, Jones R, Staffurth J, Heer R. Prostate cancer androgen receptor splice variant 7 biomarker study - A multicentre randomised feasibility trial of biomarker-guided personalised treatment in patients with advanced prostate cancer (the VARIANT trial) study protocol. BMJ Open 2019, 9(12), e034708.
• Hegade VS, Mells GF, Fisher H, Kendrick S, DiBello J, Gilchrist K, Alexander GJ, Hirschfield GM, Sandford RN, Jones DEJ. Pruritus Is Common and Undertreated in Patients With Primary Biliary Cholangitis in the United Kingdom. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2019, 17(7), 1379-1387.e3.
• Paleri V, Sawant R, Mehanna H, Ainsworth H, Stocken D. Laryngeal dysplasia and narrow band imaging: Secondary analysis of published data supports the role in patient follow-up. Clinical Otolaryngology 2018, 43(6), 1439-1442.
• Wong LL, Fisher HF, Stocken DD, Rice S, Khanna A, Heneghan MA, Oo YH, Mells G, Kendrick S, Dyson JK, Jones DEJ. The Impact of Autoimmune Hepatitis and Its Treatment on Health Utility. Hepatology 2018, 68(4), 1487-1497.