Head of the ACU South Tees, and Visiting Researcher, Newcastle University
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Rebecca Maier is head of the Academic Cardiovascular Unit, South Tees, and a Visiting Researcher and Teaching Fellow at Newcastle University. She was a member of the senior leadership team in the UKCRC Registered Clinical Trials Unit at Newcastle University, and prior to that was co-Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at Durham University, UK.
Rebecca has a track record in the design and delivery of multi-centre, peer-reviewed nationally funded, internationally important, randomised controlled trials. Rebecca regularly collaborates with clinicians, statisticians, and health economists, and her work has enabled growth in the number of clinical trials led by Clinical Investigators from across the North East.
She is co-applicant on a number of multi-centre national, peer-reviewed clinical trials and is also a member of National Cardiac Surgery Clinical Trial Initiative heart valve intervention and minimally invasive techniques clinical study group.
She is passionate about well designed and robust research that answers questions that are important to patient and clinical communities, and enables medical practice to be evidence based. Over the last decade, the critical importance of patient and public involvement in research has become embedded in every aspect of the research process.
Saturday, November 19, 2022
10:50 AM – 10:58 AM