Dr Fraser Lewis Joins OHE as Head of Statistics

OHE is pleased to announce that biostatistician Dr Fraser Lewis has joined the team as Head of Statistics, leading our statistical research, consultancy and advisory activities. Fraser’s principal areas of expertise are in statistical modelling of data from biomedical studies. His particular interests include methods of analyzing data from observational studies and graphical multivariate modelling

OHE is pleased to announce that biostatistician Dr Fraser Lewis has joined the team as Head of Statistics, leading our statistical research, consultancy and advisory activities.

Fraser’s principal areas of expertise are in statistical modelling of data from biomedical studies. His particular interests include methods of analyzing data from observational studies and graphical multivariate modelling.

Most recently at the University of Zurich, Fraser has many years of experience in applied biostatistics in a range of research environments, including in the NHS in Scotland, at the University of Edinburgh and in a contract research organisation.

Fraser has been principal investigator on his own Swiss National Science Foundation grants and co-investigator on two previous grants from Research Councils UK (BBSRC, MRC). He was recently a consultant biostatistician on the US NIH Foundation project, MAL-ED, a multi-centre trial funded by the Gates Foundation focusing on nutrition and enteric diseases.

Fraser holds a PhD in statistics from the University of Strathclyde. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals and has been guest editor for a special issue on Bayesian graphical modelling published by Preventive Veterinary Medicine. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Systems.