Professor Ana Nora Donaldson obtained her MSc in Applied Statistics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and her PhD in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Maryland as a Fulbright scholar.

She then took up a Medical Research Council (MRC) funded postdoc at the University of Reading, working on sequential methods in clinical trials with Professor John Whitehead and Professor Max Parmar.

Nora was the Head of the Biostatistics Unit at the Research and Development (R&D) Department of King’s College Hospital from 1999-2005. She was awarded Chartered Statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society in 2002 and joined King’s College London as Reader in 2005 and Professor of Biostatistics in 2011.

After her retirement, Nora was awarded Emeritus Professor status for the School of Medicine at King’s College London and Adjunct Professor status in the Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics at Stony Brook University in the United States.

She holds several verified certificates with the online platform Harvard EdX in Machine Learning & Data Science with R.

Nora is an open research contributor and has been the statistical editor of several international medical journals. Her research interests include: 

• Statistics and Data Science
• quality of life and health outcomes
• randomised clinical trials
• multilevel modelling (longitudinal and cluster randomised trials)
• structural equation modelling
• sequential methods
• propensity modelling
• missing data.