The OPTIMA Team
Trial Management Group (TMG)
Professor Rob Stein – Chief investigator
Professor Andreas Makris – Co-Investigator
Professor Iain MacPherson – Co-Investigator
Dr Luke Hughes-Davies – Co-Investigator
Professor Bjorn Naume – Norway Chief Investigator
Dr Belinda Kiely – Australia Chief Investigator
Dr Anne Armstrong – Oncology Advisor
Professor John Bartlett – Scientific Advisor
Professor David Cameron – Oncology Advisor
Professor Helena Earl – Oncology Advisor
Dr Victoria Harmer – Macmillan Consultant Nurse (Breast)
Professor Chris McCabe – Health Economic Advisor
Mr Stuart McIntosh – Surgical Advisor
Dr Adrienne Morgan – Patient Advocate
Professor Sarah Pinder – Pathology Advisor
Professor Christopher Poole – Oncology Advisor
Professor Dan Rea – Oncology Advisor
Dr Abeer Shaaban – Pathology Advisor
Professor Nigel Stallard – Statistical Advisor
Dr Caroline Wilson – Oncology Advisor
OPTIMA Trial Team - Warwick Clinical Trials Unit
Professor Janet Dunn – Professor of Clinical Trials & Head of Cancer Trials
Professor Andrea Marshall – Trial Statistician
Claire Daffern – Quality Assurance Manager
Helen Higgins – Senior Project Manager
Georgina Dotchin – Trial Manager
Caroline Jevons - Recruitment Facilitator
Amy Broadfield - Trial Coordinator
Dom De Souza - Trial Coordinator
Sam Careless – Data Entry Clerk
Michelle Davitt – Data Entry Clerk
Emma Sherriff - Data Entry Clerk
OPTIMA Trial Team – Oslo Coordinating Centre, Norway
Dr Hege Oma Ohnstad – Norway Co-Investigator & Senior trial manager
Professor Hege Russnes – Pathology & Scientific advisor
Dr Elin Borgen – Pathology Advisor
Gry Aarum Geitvik – Trial Coordinator
Dr Anita Langerod – Trial Manager
Eline Holli Halset – Trial Study Nurse
Maria Christine Rypdal – Pathology Technologist
Anne Renolen – Pathology Manager
OPTIMA Trial Team - Breast Cancer Trials Australia and New Zealand
Dr Nicholas Zdenkowski - BCT Scientific Advisory Committee Chair
Associate Professor Richard De Abreu Lourenco - Health Economist
Heath Badger - BCT COO-Research
Carlie Mavin - Program Manager
Belinda Mitchell - Program Manager
Lauren Boyes - Clinical Operations Stream Lead
Qualitative Recruitment Study – QuinteT Team, University of Bristol
Professor Jenny Donovan – Qualitative Research Advisor
Dr Carmel Conefrey – Qualitative Research Investigator
Dr Leila Rooshenas – Qualitative Research Investigator
Nicola Farrar – PhD Student
Health Economics - Academic Unit of Health Economics, University of Leeds
Dr Peter Hall – Health Economist
Dr Bethany Shinkins – Health Economist
