Rate My Professor Mark Rutherford

Professor Mark Rutherford holds the position of Professor of Biostatistics within the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Leicester. He earned his BSc, MSc, and PhD from the university and is recognized as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). In addition, Rutherford occupies a visiting scientist role at the Section of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer. His primary research specializations encompass statistical methodologies for population-based registry data analysis. Key interests include relative survival methodology, flexible parametric models for large-scale registry data, and developing intuitive cancer survival measures that maintain fairness across population groups like socioeconomic strata or international comparisons. Rutherford has advanced causal inference frameworks for relative survival comparisons, explored population-level cancer burdens, and individual life expectancy impacts from cancer. Recent efforts involve adapting cancer epidemiology techniques to other domains, such as cardiovascular disease, and devising methods for real-time prognostic risk updates. He engages in collaborations for RCTs and meta-analyses, focusing on competing risks, multistate modeling, and survival function extrapolation.