Ed Palmer

I am a doctor and academic working in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine based in North London. My academic role is as an NIHR clinical lecturer at UCL where I am interested in the re-use of electronic health records for research. Particularly where research goals may be challenging to answer under traditional frameworks because anticipated effect sizes are very small, that it is too expensive, or there are concerns over equipoise.

I am currently working on two major projects:

1. Physiological trajectories of sepsis in critical care. In particular:
   • Accounting for informatively missing data as a methodological consideration using joint models.
   • The impact of oxygen as a longitudinal treatment effect.
2. DECOVID: a research platform to use secondary use data to inform treatment options in COVID-19. More specifically investigating the timings of when to intubate patients with severe COVID-19.

I am a proponent of open data, reproducible research and free¹ and open software. I was a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute and have ongoing collaborations with the Alan Turing Institute to explore the use of synthetic patient data to facilitate these goals in clinical research.

When I’m not tinkering with ventilators or R, I try to spend as much time as possible with my wonderful partner and children.