iCOMP Secretariat

Anna Lene Seidler

Anna Lene Seidler Is a Senior Research Fellow at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre (CTC), University of Sydney and the Lead of the NextGen Evidence Synthesis team within the Evidence Integration group. She is also a Research Associate for the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, biostatistical advisor for the Health Technologies Assessment team at the CTC, and Convenor and primary contact of the Cochrane Prospective Meta-Analysis Methods Group.

Lene has made major research contributions to the field of methodology development for next generation evidence synthesis approaches, such as prospective meta-analysis, and individual participant data meta-analysis.

Her clinical area of expertise is child health. Her research projects in this area include projects on how to improve preterm neonatal survival rates in different settings through cord management interventions. She has developed close partnerships with consumer researchers, policy makers and guideline developers (including World Health Organisation, International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, Ministry of Health New South Wales), to work together on rapid implementation of her research findings into routine health care programs and clinical guidelines.

Professor Lisa Askie

Lisa Askie joined the WHO at Geneva Headquarters in Sept 2020 as Scientist and Methods Lead within the Quality Norms and Standards Department, Science Division. Prior to her WHO appointment Lisa led a large team at the National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Australia, which managed the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, undertook Health Technology Assessments for the Australian Federal Government, hosted two Cochrane Collaboration entities (Breast Cancer Review Group, Prospective Meta-analysis Methods Group) and oversaw an extensive medical test evaluation research program.

Lisa has a long standing interest in the conduct and methodology of clinical trials, systematic reviews and other forms of evidence synthesis, especially with regard to increasing research transparency and reducing research waste. She has been involved with the Cochrane Collaboration since 1996 as a systematic review author, trainer and editor. Lisa is the co-convenor of the Cochrane Prospective Meta-analysis Methods Group and undertook her postdoctoral fellowship at the UK Cochrane Centre in Oxford.

Professor Lelia Duley

Lelia Duley trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and then in Clinical Epidemiology. She has 30 years experience in the design and conduct of high quality large randomised trials, and of systematic reviews. Recently, she led a programme of applied research in care at preterm birth (funded by the NIHR UK) that included a trial of cord clamping and initial stabilisation at very preterm birth, and early work developing the protocol for iCOMP. Prior to her retirement in 2017, she was Professor of Clinical Trials Research and Director of the Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Nottingham, and Editor with the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group.

Professor Alan Montgomery

Alan Montgomery is Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials and Director of the Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit. He brings experience in the design, conduct and analysis of late phase multicentre randomised trials investigating effects of drugs, devices and complex interventions in a range of different settings. He will be involved in steering the iCOMP collaboration.

Gill Gyte

Gill Gyte is the Consumer Editor with the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group (PCG).  She joined PCG as their ‘International Consumer Panel Coordinator’ in 1997 and although she is retired now, she still contributes to the work of the group as a consumer author, as well as editor.  Gill has a background in biochemistry and haematology, she has three sons and worked as an antenatal teacher with National Childbirth Trust (NCT) for 24 years.  She began her contribution to ‘Patient and Public Involvement’ (PPI) in research as a member of the NCT Research and Information Group back in the 1990s, and this work brought her into contact with the Cochrane Collaboration.  She has contributed a PPI perspective in a large number of research projects over the years, she ran workshops on understanding evidence for Cochrane consumers, NCT members and various patient groups, and she has been a consumer member of NICE and WHO guideline development groups.  She became interested in third stage of labour and in the timing of cord clamping during her first pregnancy in 1980.

Kylie Hunter

Kylie Hunter is a Senior Project Officer for the Systematic Reviews and Health Technology Assessment team at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney. She has a background in human movement, research methods, clinical trials registration and public health, and has worked on projects across various clinical areas including neonatology, childhood obesity, and breast cancer. She has expertise in systematic reviews and individual participant data meta-analysis, and has been actively involved with the Cochrane Prospective Meta-Analysis Methods Group for over 10 years.

Sol Libesman

Sol Libesman is a postdoctoral research associate and data scientist for the NextGen Evidence integration team at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney. His research background is in psychology where he has led projects that have investigated decision-making and perception. His previous research groups at UNSW and the Australian National University, specialized in schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusional-reasoning. He was worked in the evidence integration team since 2019 and his current focus relates to the deployment and optimization of the next generation of evidence synthesis methods including IPD meta analyses and network meta-analyses.

Mason Aberoumand

Mason Aberoumand is a data manager for the Systematic Reviews and Health Technology Assessment team at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney. With qualifications in applied mathematics and statistics he has experience in statistical simulation, data management and data quality.

Jonathan Williams

Jonathan Williams is a Research Officer for the Systematic Reviews and Health Technology Assessment team at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney. He is currently completing his PhD in molecular biology, specialising in microbiology and human immunology, focusing on issues in vulnerable populations. He has experience in science communication, clinical sample processing and phlebotomy.

James Sotiropoulos

James Sotiropoulos is a Master of Philosophy candidate and research assistant for the Next Generation Evidence Synthesis team at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney. His ongoing research focuses on developing and applying next generation evidence synthesis techniques to questions in neonatology. He leads an IPD network meta-analysis (the NETMOTION study) on initial oxygen for preterm newborns.