ICTU staff
ICTU is divided into sections, with oversight from the Executive Committee team.
Please expand below for further details.
Senior Management
Executive Committee team
The ICTU Executive Committee team consists of the Director, Deputy Director, Senior Clinical Academic Lead, Business Development Manager and the Heads of Sections.
- Professor Victoria Cornelius (Director of ICTU)
- Professor Neil Poulter (Senior Clinical Academic Lead)
- Professor Kosh Ray (Deputy Director of ICTU)
- Dr Daphne Babalis (Director of Operations)
- Dr Suzie Cro (co-Head of Statistics, Head of Trial Methodology and Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Rachel Phillips (co-Head of Statistics, Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials)
- Amanda Bravery (Head of ICT at ICTU)
- Dr Gaia Kiru (Head of Commercial Operations & Partnerships)
- Lauren Noto (Departmental Manager)
- Eloise Britten (Head of Quality Assurance)
- Claire Smith (Business & Development Manager)
Administration
Departmental Administration
The departmental administration team works across the UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit, as well as the wider department.
- Lauren Noto (Departmental Manager)
- Nicola Carter (Administrator)
- Angela Knight (Administrator)
- Rani Rayat (PA to Professor Neil Poulter)
Commercial
ICTU-Global
Head of Section
- Professor Kosh Ray (Director of ICTU-Global)
Commercial Team
- Gaia Kiru (Head of Operations & Partnerships)
- Jennifer Murphy (Operations Manager)
- Jess Smith (Operations Manager)
- Stephanie Amiridis (Clinical Trial Administrator)
- Claire Brennan (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Karen Danois (Project Manager)
- Lisa Feng (Clinical Trial Monitor)
- Felicia Frost (Clinical Trial Administrator)
- Ahmed Mohamed (Clinical Research Fellow)
- Marta Szajna (Clinical Trial Administrator)
- Sima Toopchiani (Clinical Trial Monitor)
Clinical Data Systems
Clinical Data Systems
- Amanda Bravery (Head of ICT, ICTU)
- Vivienne Okona-Mensah (Senior Data Manager)
- Safa Anwar (Data Manager)
- Francesco Lala (Deputy Head of Clinical Data Systems)
- Dinesh Sivakumar (Senior Data Specialist)
- Adina Ion (Data Specialist)
- Tolulope Sokunle (Data Specialist)
- Nayan Das (Data Systems Manager)
- Stefan Sprinckmöller (Senior Data Specialist)
- Abinithya Udayakumaran (Systems Development Manager)
- Smita Das (Data Specialist)
- Zala Noorzad (Data Specialist)
You can find further information about the Clinical Data Systems team on their webpage.
OPERATIONS
Academic Operations
Head of Section
- Dr Daphne Babalis (Director of Operations)
Operations managers
- Dr Claire Smith (Operations & Business Development Manager)
- Mrs Mary Cross (Operations Manager)
- Dr Ana Boshoff (Operations Manager)
- Mrs Natalia Klimowska-Nassar (Operations Manager, ICTU-Surgery)
- Philip Badman (CRUK Centre Clinical Trials Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Thiagarajah Sasikaran (Deputy Operations Manager, ICTU-Surgery)
- Lee Webber (Deputy CRUK Centre Clinical Trials Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
Operational trial staff
The majority of ICTU staff are employed within the School of Public Health. However, some staff are employed through the departments where the main trial teams they work with are based; these instances are noted below.
- Shian Anim-Burton (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Janis Best-Lane (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Joe Bolger (Clinical Trial and Data Administrator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Aaron Clarke (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Ross Dalton (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Margarita Durkina (Clinical Trial Manager/ Monitor)
- Elizabeth Fagbodun (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Stephen Fletcher (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Marta Gielniewska (Clinical Trial Monitor)
- Mariam Habib (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Arzish Haqqee (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Michael Hetherington (Clinical Trial Administrator)
- Aine Hogan (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Puja Jadav (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer - maternity leave)
- Gosia Kochanska (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Gemma Loebenberg (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Brain Sciences)
- Marie Miller (Public Involvement Coordinator)
- Amnah Mirza (Clinical Trial Administrator)
- Joseph Montebello (Clinical Trial Manager/ Monitor)
- Natalia Olejniczak (Clinical Trial Monitor)
- Ayomide Olorunfemi (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Alexis Perkins (Clinical Trial Manager, NHLI)
- Jolene Pothier-Carioni (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer - maternity cover)
- Alex Ross (Clinical Trial Manager, NHLI)
- Meena Reddi (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Salma Samsuddin (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Lindsay Smith (Clinical Trial Manager, NHLI)
- Claire Streatfield (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Lucy Stronach (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Johanna Sukumar (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Alex Williams (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance
- Eloise Britten (Head of Quality Assurance)
- Jonathan Dao (Quality Assurance Administrator)
Statistics
Clinical Trial Statistics
Heads of Section
- Dr Suzie Cro (co-Head of Statistics, Head of Trial Methodology, Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Rachel Phillips (co-Head of Statistics, Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials)
ICTU Clinical Trial Statistics Team
- Elli Bourmpaki (Statistician)
- Louise Cherrill (Statistician)
- Sapna Dave (Statistician)
- Jack Elkes (Statistician)
- Emanuela Falaschetti (Statistician, Research Fellow)
- Lorna Hazell (Statistician)
- Leila Janani (Statistician, Research Fellow)
- Nicholas Johnson (Statistician, Research Fellow)
- Consuelo Nohpal de la Rosa (Statistician)
- Clement Twumasi (Statistician)
- Eleanor van Vogt (NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow)
- Annie Wright (Statistician)
Statistical Advisory Service
External to the UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit, but part of the wider ICTU department.
- Joseph Eliahoo (Statistical Consultant)
- Krupa Shukla (SAS Administrator and Course Tutor)