CONFERENCES ORGANISED AND ATTENDED

June 2007: Society for Academic Primary Care, London,UK. Poster presentation: Estimated 10 year cardiovascular risk in a British population: results of a national screening project.

Mar. 2007: South West Association of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SW SAPC), Torquay, UK. Oral presentation: Self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Oct. 2006: Cochrane Colloquium, Dublin, Ireland; Chair of workshop: Quality assessment of randomized trials.

Sep. 2006: First International Symposium and Workshop: Prevention of Thromboembolic Events: The Role of Point-of-Care Management, Berlin, Sept. 28-30, Germany. Invited talk: Outcome research for anticoagulation management: individual patient meta-analysis.

Mar. 2006: South West Association of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SW SAPC), Birmingham, UK. Oral presentation: Action rules for monitoring of chronic diseases managed in Primary Care.

July 2005: International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) 2005, Cardiff, UK. Poster presentation: Action Rules for Managing Chronic Disease, In collaboration with Paul Glasziou and Carl Haneghan.

Mar. 2005: 11^th Annual Meeting of UK Contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration, Manchester, UK. Chair of workshop: Basic Statistical Meta-analysis.

Sep. 2004: International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) 2004, Manchester, UK. Oral presentation: Clustering methods to detect syndromes of Meningococcal disease.

Mar. 2004: South West Association of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SW SAPC), Bristol, UK. Oral presentation: How accurate is PCR for diagnosing Influenza?

Oct. 2003: XI Cochrane Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain.

Aug. 2003: Helmints Colloquium organised by the Mexican Society of Parasitology, Mexico City, Mexico. Invited talk: Evidence based Medicine.

Mar. 2003: SW SAPC, Oxford, UK. (Session chair).

Mar. 2003: UK Contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration, Warwick, UK.

Oct. 2001: On organising Committee, XVI Foro Nacional de Estadística, Guadalajara, Mexico.

Oct. 2001: XVI Foro Nacional de Estadística, Guadalajara, Mexico. Oral presentation: Inference on Records of temperatures, in collaboration with Mario Cortina.

Sept. 2000: International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) 2000, Reading, UK. Poster presentation: Inference on Records. In collaboration with Mario Cortina.

May 2000: 5^th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, Guanajuato, México. Oral presentation: Predictive classification using mixtures of multivariate normal distributions.

Sept. 1999: XIV Foro Nacional de Estadística, Jalapa, Mexico. Oral presentation: Predictive classification using mixtures of multivariate normal distributions.

INVITED SEMINARS AND LECTURES

Nov 2007: Monitoring Chronic Conditions, Seminar University College London, Institute of Child Health.

June 2007: Self-monitoring for Oral Anticoagulation Therapy, The Royal Statistical Society, Primary Care Study Group meeting: Systematic Reviews in Primary care.

June 2007: BNP guided identification and clinical management of ventricular disfunction – results from a pilot study, The Richard Doll Seminars in Public Health & Epidemiology, Richard Doll Building, University of Oxford, (joint presentation with P. Glasziou).

May 2007: Reading Research Statistics, FHS Medical Sciences, University of Oxford, Lecture to Second year medical pre-clinical students.

Jul 2006: Implementing Evidence obtained from Systematic Reviews, The Royal Statistical Society, Primary Care Study Group meeting: What is appropriate evidence for improving Primary care.

May 2006: A Career in Applied Medical Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Career talks for Oxford Statisticians (joint presentation with P. Yudkin).

Mar. 2004: Clustering methods to detect syndromes of Meningococcal disease, Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Research Seminar.

Nov. 2003: How accurate is PCR for diagnosing Influenza?, Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Research Seminar.

Aug. 2003: Statistics in Systematic Reviews. Department of Statistics, ITAM, Departmental Seminar.

Oct. 2001: Analysing extreme values in Internet logfiles. Department of Statistics, CIMAT, Departmental Seminar.

Sept. 1999: Predictive Classification using mixtures of multivariate normals. Department of Statistics, ITAM, Departmental Seminar.