Dr. Ly Mee Yu

Biography

Ly-Mee Yu is a Professor within the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford, specializing in Medical Statistics. With over 30 years of experience as a medical statistician, she has focused specifically on clinical trials over the past two decades. Throughout her career, she has worked across a diverse range of clinical areas including renal disease, behavioral medicine, vaccinology, cardiovascular medicine, infectious disease, surgery, mental health, and neurosciences. Professor Yu has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as The Lancet, JAMA, and BMJ. She currently serves as the lead statistician for a platform conducting adaptive decentralized clinical trials to evaluate COVID-19 treatments in the community. Additionally, she is the Co-Director of the Primary Care Clinical Trials Unit and has played significant roles in various research committees, including as a panel member for the NIHR Research Programme on Social Care and as a chair/member of data safety monitoring committees for national and international trials. Her research interests encompass trial methodology, platform trials, decentralized trials, missing data, and covariate adjustment in clinical trials.

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