Professor Carrol Gamble BSc PhD

Research Group Membership

• Medical Statistics
• International Health

Research Grants

Pilot-Education and training for recruiters to randomised trials

HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (IRELAND)

January 2018 - December 2021

Extending ORRCA to create a central resource for retention research within clinical trials (ORRCA 2)

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

June 2018 - November 2019

The Carboprost or Oxytocin Postpartum haemorrhage Effectiveness Study (COPE)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

September 2017 - September 2024

MIROR Methods in research on research

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

March 2016 - February 2020

From evidence to guidance on patient recruitment to clinical research in intensive care units.

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2016 - May 2020

Methods for Patient and Public Involvement in Clinical Trials: A Research Priority and Agenda Setting Exercise.

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2015 - May 2017

TOPS: Timing of Primary Surgery for Cleft Palate (renewal)

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (USA)

July 2016 - June 2021

The TRECA study: TRials Engagement in Children and Adolescents

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

February 2016 - July 2020

How does treatment with thyroxine for 6 weeks postnatally given to preterm infants born under 28 weeks gestation affect the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axix, somatic growth, meylination of white matter and the volumes of key brain structures? An exploratory randomised double blinded placebo controlled clinical trial

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2007 - May 2010

Development of an interactive website for outcome reporting bias research

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

July 2015 - June 2016

Radiation versus observation following surgical resection of Atypical Meningioma: a randomised controlled trial (ROAM)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

November 2014 - March 2026

ORBIT II: Outcome Reporting Bias In Trials

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

June 2012 - December 2013

SLEEPS: Safety profiLe, Efficacy and Equivalence in Paediatric intensive care Sedation: A Comparison of Clonidine and Midazolam

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

July 2007 - November 2012

Understanding the process and impact of within-study selective reporting bias.

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2006 - November 2008

Duration of intravenous antibiotic therapy for children with acute osteomyelitis or septic arthritis: a feasibility study

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

October 2012 - May 2015

Evaluation of Corticosteroid therapy in Childhood Severe Sepsis- a randomised pilot study

MENINGITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (UK)

October 2013 - June 2014

North West Hub for Trial Methodology Research (NWHTMR)

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2008 - August 2014

PREVAIL-Preventing infection using antibiotic impregnated long lines

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK), UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UK)

June 2014 - August 2019

StePS study

MENINGITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (UK)

October 2007 - April 2013

A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of intravenous levetiracetam versus intravenous phenytoin in terminating acute, prolonged tonic-clonic seizures including convulsive status epilepticus in children, the 'EcLIPSE' Study: Emergency treatment with Levetiracetam or Phenytoin in Status Epilepticus

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

June 2014 - July 2019

Losing the losses: understanding the reasons for attrition in randomised trials and developing the evidence to prevent it

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2013 - July 2015

Onabotulinium toxin-A versus extended release tolterodine in the management of idiopathic overactive bladder in children: A pilot randomised controlled trial OVERT

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

July 2014 - August 2018

Healing Foundation Clinical Trials Unit

THE SCAR FREE FOUNDATION

June 2011 - September 2020

Establishing a database of statistical expertise to support clinical trial oversight committees and develop capacity

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2014 - September 2015

TP 165 feasilbility study of enhanced relapse prevention by key workers for people diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder.

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2005 - January 2007

The British Antibiotic and Silver Impregnated Catheters for ventriculoperitoneal Shunts multi-centre randomised controlled trial (The BASICS trial)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

June 2012 - February 2019

Training key workers to offer enhanced relapse prevention to people with bipolar disorder and their relatives within an NHS setting.

MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (UK)

September 2004 - August 2007

Trial steering committees for randomised controlled trials: Updating and redeveloping guidance and terms of reference, informed by current practice and experience

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2012 - September 2014

Clinical trial monitoring: establishing best UK practice?

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2011 - May 2013

MOMENT The management of otitis media with effusion (OME) in children with cleft palate

CENTRAL MANCHESTER TEACHING HOSPITALS (UK)

August 2012 - August 2013

Development of guidance for statistical analysis plans for clinical trials

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2014 - December 2016

Consolidating guidelines for the prevention, detection and appraisal of reporting biases in clinical trials

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

May 2012 - October 2013

Medicines for Children Research Network Clinical Trials Unit

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

April 2010 - March 2015

Development of a central resource for research in recruitment in clinical trials

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2014 - November 2018

Use of the electronic health record in the design and conduct of clinical trials

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

November 2013 - September 2016

Research Collaborations