Staff Profile

Dr Oldmeadow is the Senior Statistician at  the Clinical Research Design, Information Technology and Statistical Support (CReDITSS) unit,  located at the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI).  Dr Oldmeadow has contributed to the design, analysis and data management of a number of large studies and has provided consultative and collaborative input to clinicians and public health specialists on a wide range of methodological problems.  He has a strong track-record in study design and co-ordinating the analytic plans of research projects.

Dr Oldmeadow  completed his PhD in late 2009 at the Queensland University of Technology, and his thesis was in the application and development of statistical methods in bioinformatics; specifically he developed a generalisation to the Bayesian segmentation and classification model for analysing DNA sequences from mulitple species to identify functional genomic regions. In 2010 Dr Oldmeadow joined the CReDITSS unit  as an HMRI post-doctoral research fellow.  His research interests are in statistical methodologies for Genetic Epidemiology, Bioinformatics, and Biostatistics.  An up-to-date list of his publications is at Google Citations ( http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=Lo70aGIAAAAJ )