Rate My Professor Christopher Partlett

Christopher Partlett is Principal Research Fellow of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham. He holds the position of Assistant Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials at the Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit (NCTU), having joined in 2018. In this capacity, he delivers statistical leadership within large multidisciplinary teams responsible for the design and conduct of late-phase randomised controlled trials. Before his current appointment, Partlett occupied a joint role between the NCTU and the Research Design Service East Midlands. He has also served in comparable statistical positions at the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham. His career trajectory underscores a commitment to enhancing the methodological rigor of clinical research through advanced statistical expertise.

Partlett's research specializations encompass medical statistics and clinical trials methodology. As Chief Investigator, he directs prominent studies such as the Blinding of Trials Statisticians (BOTS), funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, and the Process Evaluation Alongside Randomised Trials (PEARS). His scholarly contributions feature prominently in leading journals. Key publications include 'Controlled trial of two incremental milk-feeding rates in preterm infants' in the New England Journal of Medicine (2019), 'Prophylactic antibiotics in the prevention of infection after operative vaginal delivery (ANODE): a multicentre randomised controlled trial' in The Lancet (2019), 'Developing guidance for a risk-proportionate approach to blinding statisticians within clinical trials: a mixed methods study' in Trials (2023), 'Blinding of study statisticians in clinical trials: a qualitative study in UK clinical trials units' in Trials (2022), 'Mental health in clinically referred children and young people before and during the Covid-19 pandemic' in European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2023), and 'Undertaking meta-analysis' in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy (2023). With over 1,450 citations documented on Google Scholar, Partlett's work substantially influences statistical practices and trial methodologies in the medical field.