Our team

David joins the Deparment from Kings College Hospital where he successfully set up the hospital's new cardiopulmonary exercise testing service. David completed his doctorate assessing the autonomic function of heart failure and transplant patients from Brunel University in June 2009. Work involved the assessment of heart rate variability in patients being assessed for heart transplant and treated with ventricular assist devices at Harefield hospital. David also has a background as an exercise physiologist and is accredited with the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES). David was also the director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Kingston University from 2004 to 2009 and worked as a lecturer at Kingston during that time, when he also completed a Masters in Sports Science from Brunel University.

Carl Heneghan is a Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Deputy Director of the Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine and a General Practitioner. He has had an association with the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine since 1995. He currently is a Walport Clinical Lecturer having previously held a NCCRD Research Development Fellowship.

His Research projects involve cardiovascular disease, self-monitoring in chronic diseases, and determining the evidence base for treatment of infections. He is a co-applicant on the £3.5million pound NIHR funded centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis in Oxford (MADOX). He works with the Oxford Vascular Study (OXVASC), a joint collaboration between the Departments of Clinical Neurology and Primary Health Care, and with the University of Birmingham on projects related to oral anticoagulation, the prevention of venous thrombosis and hypertension management, including self monitoring and tele-monitoring.

As a clinical epidemiologists Dr Heneghan has experience in systematic reviews, observational and quantitative methodologies: he collaborates with Dr Matthew Thompson on a number of diagnostic projects and infection related projects, including antiviral treatments of influenza and treatments ofr upper respiratory infections, and is a Co-Director of the Oxford Diagnostic Horizon Scanning Centre, an effective early warning system that identifies innovations in the field of health technology likely to have a significant impact. Dr Heneghan also collaborates with Dr Rafael Perera on monitoring methods and articles related to teaching of research methods and Evidence-Base Practice.

He has considerable experience in teaching for undergraduates, postgraduates and teachers of EBM practice and is an Msc Course module co-ordinator, tutor and supervisor at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford. He has co-authored the EBM toolkit (BMJ-Blackwell’s), the Statistics Toolkit (BMJ-Blackwell’s) and is lead editor of a commissioned series of BMJ-Blackwell’s toolkits. He is involved in work that promotes the understanding and teaching of critical appraisal.

Carl is currently a reviewer for the Department of Health, NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme review board and is a member of the Pharmaceutical Panel, is Resource review editor with the Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine and is on the Advisory Boards of the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (HCPC), National Knowledge Decision Support Board and the BMJ Evidence Centre.

Jane Wolstenholme joined the Health Economics Research Centre in December 1998, having previously worked at the University of Nottingham . Her main research interests lie in the areas of economic evaluation and health technology assessment from applied and methodological perspectives. During 2005 she was engaged on projects in modelling cost-effectiveness of prostate cancer screening and cervical cancer screening; economic evaluation alongside a RCT for the treatment of subarachnoid aneurysm; assessing the usefulness of cost-effectiveness data in priority setting. She is currently co-supervising two PhD students and one research officer and involved with teaching the MSc in global health and the HERC Advanced Methods course. She is an Associate of the Oxford Institute for Ageing and a member of the Health Economics Futures Group.

Jenny joined the Department of Primary Health Care in September 2009 as a Systematic Reviewer and Epidemiologist. She works within the Centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis (MaDOx) where she is involved in the diabetes group, conducting systematic reviews both on renal monitoring and the optimal prescribing of glucose lowering therapy.
Jenny previously worked in the medical diagnostics industry where she looked into potential new disease areas and diagnostic methods in the fields of cardiology, infectious disease and oncology.

Nia is an information specialist and outreach librarian working with clinical staff, students and researchers in cancer services, public health and primary care. She has experience of teaching information skills within EBM programmes and regularly contributes to preparing systematic reviews.

Professor Farmer undertook his DM thesis in the University Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology at Oxford, having completed vocational training at Thame Health Centre where he worked as a principal in the practice from 1985 to 2000. Between 2001 and 2006 he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Primary Health Care holding an NHS R&D Senior Clinical Scientist Award. He also works as a salaried general practitioner at South Oxford Health Centre and is a Senior Research Fellow in the Diabetes Trials Unit.

His work has focussed on research to improve the self-management of diabetes in general practice including the best use of blood glucose monitoring, supporting adherence to medication, and evaluating the use of telehealth to improve long-term outcomes. He was a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York in 1991, one of the first general practitioners to hold this award. He currently has additional roles as Director of the Oxford Primary Care Trials Unit, Clinical Lead for the NIHR Thames Valley Diabetes Local Research Network and Deputy Chair of the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme Commissioning Board.

Rafael is a University Lecturer in Medical Statistics, Co-director and the Head of Statistics for MaDOX. His general interests include: monitoring in primary care, meta-analysis methods, methodology for studying infectious diseases in children, and assessing complex interventions.