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Dr Kim Cocks PhD is a chartered medical statistician (CStat) and chartered scientist (CSci) with 19 years of experience in pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, independent consultancy and academia. KCStats Consultancy has been providing statistical services for 6 years.

Kim’s clinical trials experience covers a variety of disease areas including cancer, haematology, cardiology, rheumatoid arthritis, anaesthesia, surgery and wound care. Her previous roles have involved setting up two statistics departments from writing their standard operating procedures to recruiting plus managing a team of up to ten statisticians.

Kim has project managed a number of large multi-centre clinical trials and been involved in all stages of clinical trial set up, from grant applications, study design and sample size, statistical analysis plans, protocol writing, through to SAS programming, analysis and report writing. Her research interests include the measurement of quality of life, longitudinal analysis in the presence of informative missing data and survival analysis. She has published extensively in the clinical trials field and has a track record in designing trials for novel drugs, medical devices and complex interventions.

• Professional Liabilities Insurance
• Currently serving on an NIHR Funding body committee
• Independent TSC and DMC member for a number of studies
• Previously served on a Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee