Ian Roberts MB BCh MRCP PhD

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Background

Ian Roberts trained as a paediatrician in the UK and then in epidemiology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and at McGill University, Canada. His research interests include the evaluation of publc health interventions and the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of injury, with the aim of providing rigorous research evidence on which to base intervention strategies. He is co-ordinating editor of the Cochrane Injuries Group, an international network of individuals who prepare and maintain systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions in the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of injury. He is Clinical Co-ordinator of the CRASH-2 Trial. He is currently Professor of Epidemiology and Public Heath at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Teaching

Basic and Extended Epidemiology Course Lecturer, Study Design Unit Course Organiser, MSc Student Supervisor, Head of Unit NPHIRU.

Research

CRASH2 Trial, BRAIN Trial, Cochrane Injuries Group, Text2Stop smoking cessation trial.

Selected publications

• Perel, P.; Roberts, I.; Sena, E.; Wheble, P.; Briscoe, C.; Sandercock, P.; Macleod, M.; Mignini, L.E.; Jayaram, P.; Khan, K.S.; Comparison of treatment effects between animal experiments and clinical trials: systematic review. BMJ, 2007; 334(7586):197
• Edwards, P.; Arango, M.; Balica, L.; Cottingham, R.; El-Sayed, H.; Farrell, B.; Fernandes, J.; Gogichaisvili, T.; Golden, N.; Hartzenberg, B.; Husain, M.; Ulloa, M.I.; Jerbi, Z.; Khamis, H.; Komolafe, E.; Laloe, V.; Lomas, G.; Ludwig, S.; Mazairac, G.; Munoz Sanchez, M.d.e. .L.; Nasi, L.; Olldashi, F.; Plunkett, P.; Roberts, I.; Sandercock, P.; Shakur, H.; Soler, C.; Stocker, R.; Svoboda, P.; Trenkler, S.; Venkataramana, N.K.; Wasserberg, J.; Yates, D.; Yutthakasemsunt, S.; Final results of MRC CRASH, a randomised placebo-controlled trial of intravenous corticosteroid in adults with head injury-outcomes at 6 months. Lancet, 2005; 365(9475):1957-9
• Roberts, I.; Alderson, P.; Bunn, F.; Chinnock, P.; Ker, K.; Schierhout, G.; Colloids versus crystalloids for fluid resuscitation in critically ill patients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2004; (4):CD000567
• Roberts, I.; Yates, D.; Sandercock, P.; Farrell, B.; Wasserberg, J.; Lomas, G.; Cottingham, R.; Svoboda, P.; Brayley, N.; Mazairac, G.; Laloe, V.; Murillo-Sanchez, A.; Arango, M.; Hartzenberg, B.; Khamis, H.; Yutthakasemsunt, S.; Komolafe, E.; Olldashi, F.; Yadav, Y.; Murillo-Cabezas, F.; Shakur, H.; Edwards, P.; Effect of intravenous corticosteroids on death within 14 days in 10008 adults with clinically significant head injury (MRC CRASH trial): randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet, 2004; 364(9442):1321-8

Full publications listing (since 2001)