Dr Krishnan Bhaskaran MSc PhD

Lecturer in Statistical Epidemiology

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I graduated from Sheffield University with a BSc Hons in Mathematics in 1999. After taking my MSc in Medical Statistics at Leicester University in 2000-2001, I joined the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, and stayed there for six years, working on a variety of HIV trials and observational studies, with an emphasis on HIV seroconverters (individuals with well estimated dates of HIV infection). In October 2010 I gained my PhD at LSHTM for a project looking at environmental risk factors for heart disease.

Affiliation

• Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology

Teaching

I teach on Statistical Methods for Epidemiology (SME) and Advanced Statistical Methods for Epidemiology (ASME). I am the course director for the Short Course in Practical Pharmacoepidemiology. I also teach basic statistics on the UCL undergraduate medicine course.

Research

I am currently involved in two main areas of research:

1) Following up my PhD project in which I investigated the associations between environmental factors (outdoor temperature, pollution levels) and heart attack risk using data from MINAP, the UK national audit of myocardial infarction hospital admissions.

2) Undertaking pharmacoepidemiological studies looking at the unintended effects of drug treatments, with a particular emphasis on long-term cancer outcomes.

• Selected publications

• Angiotensin receptor blockers and cancer risk: a cohort study among people receiving antihypertensive drugs in the UK General Practice Research Database

  Bhaskaran, K; Douglas, I; Evans, S; van Staa, T; Smeeth, L;

  British Medical Journal, In Press;

• The effects of hourly differences in air pollution on the risk of myocardial infarction: case crossover analysis of the MINAP database.

  Bhaskaran, K. ; Hajat, S. ; Armstrong, B. ; Haines, A. ; Herrett, E. ; Wilkinson, P. ; Smeeth, L. ;

  BMJ, 2011; 343:d5531

• Short term effects of temperature on risk of myocardial infarction in England and Wales: time series regression analysis of the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) registry.

  Bhaskaran, K.; Hajat, S.; Haines, A.; Herrett, E.; Wilkinson, P.; Smeeth, L.;

  BMJ, 2010; 341:c3823

• The effects of air pollution on the incidence of myocardial infarction - A systematic review.

  Bhaskaran, K.; Hajat, S.; Haines, A.; Herrett, E.; Wilkinson, P.; Smeeth, L.;

  Heart, 2009; 95(21):1746-59

• The effects of ambient temperature on the incidence of myocardial infarction - A systematic review.

  Bhaskaran, K.; Hajat, S.; Haines, A.; Herrett, E.; Wilkinson, P.; Smeeth, L.;

  Heart, 2009; 95(21):1760-9

• Changes in the incidence and predictors of human immunodeficiency virus-associated dementia in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy

  Bhaskaran, K.; Mussini, C.; Antinori, A.; Walker, A.S.; Dorrucci, M.; Sabin, C.; Phillips, A.; Porter, K.

  Annals of Neurology, 2008; 63(2):213-21

• Changes in the risk of death after HIV seroconversion compared with mortality in the general population

  Bhaskaran, K.; Hamouda, O.; Sannes, M.; Boufassa, F.; Johnson, A.M.; Lambert, P.C.; Porter, K.

  Jama, 2008; 300(1):51-9

• Determinants of survival following HIV-1 seroconversion after the introduction of HAART

  Porter, K.; Babiker, A.; Bhaskaran, K.; Darbyshire, J.; Pezzotti, P.; Walker, A. S.

  Lancet, 2003; 362(9392):1267-74

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