
Dr Abdel Douiri
Reader in Medical Statistics
Research interests
- Population Health
Biography
Abdel leads Medical Statistics in the School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences. He is an applied mathematician by background, MSc at Paris-Sorbonne University 1999 and PhD at Paris-Orsay University 2002. He has been involved in a variety of clinical research with world leading research groups in UK and France, and in both academia and industry. His research interests include epidemiology of long-term conditions, predictive medicine and clinical trials design and methodology. Since July 2009, at the School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences he teaches statistics and epidemiology for both undergraduate medical students and postgraduate Masters of Public Health. Abdel is postgraduate module lead of both further epidemiology and statistics for Master of Public Health (MPH) and Public Health Interventions and Evaluation (MSc). He is the director of the statistical consultancy services at KCL and he is also a statistical advisor with the Research Design Service London, Biomedical Research Centre, and King’s College Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and active member with quality improvement section. Abdel is a statistical editor and health economic advisor with Thorax.
Research

Unit for Medical Statistics
A group medical statisticians with a broad range of collective expertise who undertake research, consultancy, training and teaching at King’s and beyond.

Stroke Research Group
We are a multidisciplinary group (epidemiologists, stroke physicians, GPs, social scientists, statisticians, health informaticians and health economists) focused on stroke and with a wider interest in vascular long-term conditions and analytics.

Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data
We aim to improve the lives of stroke survivors through a programme of stakeholder engagement, data collection, analysis and modelling, and use in practice.
Project status: Ongoing

Mind and Skin Consortium
A prospective cohort study evaluating the impact of inflammation, itch and sleep disturbance on the brain, mental health and cognition, in patients with eczema.
Project status: Ongoing

EPiC-HFT
EPiC-HFT aims to identify whether adjunctive home HFT can improve 12-month admission-free survival following severe AECOPD.
Project status: Ongoing
News
Physiotherapy programme improves walking in people with poor leg circulation
Adults with poor leg circulation who took part in one-to-one physiotherapy sessions that aimed to improve motivation and commitment to exercise were able to...

Research

Unit for Medical Statistics
A group medical statisticians with a broad range of collective expertise who undertake research, consultancy, training and teaching at King’s and beyond.

Stroke Research Group
We are a multidisciplinary group (epidemiologists, stroke physicians, GPs, social scientists, statisticians, health informaticians and health economists) focused on stroke and with a wider interest in vascular long-term conditions and analytics.

Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data
We aim to improve the lives of stroke survivors through a programme of stakeholder engagement, data collection, analysis and modelling, and use in practice.
Project status: Ongoing

Mind and Skin Consortium
A prospective cohort study evaluating the impact of inflammation, itch and sleep disturbance on the brain, mental health and cognition, in patients with eczema.
Project status: Ongoing

EPiC-HFT
EPiC-HFT aims to identify whether adjunctive home HFT can improve 12-month admission-free survival following severe AECOPD.
Project status: Ongoing
News
Physiotherapy programme improves walking in people with poor leg circulation
Adults with poor leg circulation who took part in one-to-one physiotherapy sessions that aimed to improve motivation and commitment to exercise were able to...
