Selected Publications

• Blacklock C L, Hirst J A, Taylor K S, Stevens R J, Roberts N W, and Farmer A J (2011) Evidence for a dose effect of renin-angiotensin system inhibition on progression of microalbuminuria in Type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis. Diabet Med, 28(10):1182-7.

• Goldacre Michael J, Taylor Kathryn, and Lambert Trevor W (2010) Views of junior doctors about whether their medical school prepared them well for work: questionnaire surveys. BMC Med Educ, 10(1):78.

Kathy joined the department in February 2010. Her background was initially mathematics and operational research applied to clinical and health policy problems, with a particular focus on heart disease. For her doctoral thesis, she developed a computer-based model for planning and evaluating shifts in health services and considered the case of cardiac catheterisation services in the NHS. Her previous post was in medical careers research in the Department of Public Health at Oxford University.