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2. Description

We are a research group within the Dept of Pharmacy and Pharmacology with strong links to the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases. We use local and national healthcare databases including the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, to study drug use, drug safety and disease epidemiology with a special interest in drug safety in pregnancy and in older people. We have a strong research interest in musculoskeletal disease including biomarkers, disease presentation, treatment outcome, drug safety and drug utilisation and have links to multiple centres both nationally and internationally. All of our research is conducted with input by clinicians in the relevant discipline and with specialist statistical and programming support. Our research team consists of a Professor in Pharmacoepidemiology who is also a Consultant Rheumatologist, a Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Epidemiology, a senior database manager and programmer, a number of post-doctoral research fellows and PhD students

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5. Therapeutic/disease areas of research in drug safety/risk-benefit performed in the past 5 years

6. Design of drug safety/risk-benefit studies published in the past 5 years

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9. Experience in secondary research and meta-analysis

10. Work with existing data resources in the past 3 years

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14. Interest in research opportunities which are funded

15. Interest in contract research only if free to publish results

16. Selected publications of the last 5 calendar years