Professor Stephen Walters
Co-Applicant – Statistician
Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Sheffield CTRU 

Stephen graduated with a degree in Mathematics and Economics. This was followed by a PGCE and an MSc in Medical Statistics and Information Technology. His PhD involved using computer intensive statistical methods for estimating sample sizes and analysing quality of life outcomes. Stephen joined ScHARR in January 1995 and was the first Director of the Design, Trials and Statistics section in ScHARR from 2012-18.

Stephen is a Chartered Statistician with over 25 years’ experience of health services research and technology assessment. The main focus of his research has been in the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of trials of complex interventions; and the design, assessment, analysis and interpretation of patient reported outcomes in clinical trials. Stephen works with clinicians from a variety of backgrounds to develop pragmatic clinical trial designs to capture the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a variety of health technologies. Stephen has been co-investigator for more than 20 RCTs of non-pharmaceutical interventions.

Stephen is currently an National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator. He has been a member of the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Clinical Evaluation and Trials Board (2011-17) and the East Midlands Regional Funding Committee for the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Pogramme (2011-2012). Stephen also had been a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee (2008-2013) and been a co-applicant, statistical advisor and collaborator on over 67 health services research projects.

Source: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/stephen-walters