Jim Lewsey, PhD, is a Reader in Medical Statistics and joined the University of Glasgow in 2007 having previously held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2003-2007), University of Otago (2001-2003), Eastman Dental Institute-UCL (1998-2001), and University of Glasgow (1996-1998). He was awarded Chartered Statistician status from the Royal Statistical Society in 2010 and Chartered Scientist from the Science Council in 2012. His personal research interests stem from methodological challenges faced when analyzing observational and experimental medical data and have included prognostic model development in the presence of missing data, continuous outcome monitoring of long-term outcomes, modelling dental caries data, and design of cluster randomised trials. His current methodological interests include multi-state survival analysis and modelling of data from natural experiments, and in his applied research he is developing a portfolio of alcohol research. Jim leads the Analysis of Linked Health Data (ALDA) programme within HEHTA and is Deputy Lead of the IHW research theme 'Data Science - Using routine administrative data and record linkage for research'. Jim is Programme Director and teaches on the MSc in Health Technology Assessment.  He also teaches and coordinates a medical statistics course on the Masters in Public Health.