Staff at P N Lee

The highly qualified and experienced staff at P.N.Lee Statistics and Computing Limited (PNLSC) are well equipped to provide a number of professional and technical services relating to medical statistics, including data processing, reporting, statistical analyses and software development. They have particular expertise in the areas of toxicology, epidemiology and clinical trials

Peter Lee (Director and Statistical Consultant):

Peter studied mathematics with postgraduate statistics at Exeter College, Oxford in 1962-66, gaining his MA in 1969. Until 1979 he worked as a statistician to the Tobacco Research Council, in Harrogate and then in London. From 1979 to 1984 he was an independent consultant in statistics and advisor in epidemiology and toxicology to a number of tobacco, pharmaceutical and chemical companies. He formed PNLSC in 1984 to widen these activities. Peter is a Chartered Statistician who has published over 200 papers, letters and articles, and several books.


 

Barbara Forey (Statistician):

Barbara read statistics at Bath University from 1970 to 1974 gaining a first-class degree. She worked as statistician at Imperial Tobacco Ltd. in Bristol in 1974-77 in a team led by Peter Lee and has continued to work for Peter ever since. Barbara has been largely responsible for the continuous updating of International Smoking Statistics (ISS)



 

Dr. John Fry (Statistician and Head of Computing):

John read mathematics at Churchill College, Cambridge in 1972-75. He gained an MSc and DIC in statistics at Imperial College, and then studied at Glasgow University where he gained a PhD for his work on statistics in 1980. He was statistician at the Department of Neurosurgery at Southern General Hospital in Glasgow from 1978 to 1979 and then lecturer in medical statistics at the Department of Epidemiology at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School. He joined PNLSC in 1983. John, who is a Chartered Statistician, has particular interest in computing problems in statistics and has been responsible for the implementation of RoeLee.
 

Jan Hamling (Statistician):

Jan read mathematics at Imperial College London from 1975 to 1978. Her extensive experience in systems analysis includes 6 years at Scicon and 4 years at British Gas. She has worked for PNLSC since 1994 and during that time has studied epidemiology and statistics, gaining a diploma in statistics in 2005. Jan has developed the Relative Risk Estimation system (RREst) in Excel.



 

John Hamling (Software Developer and Hardware Specialist):

John comes from a strong background in electronic engineering having held positions with Reed International and Plessey. During that time John gained experience in many programming languages and prior to joining PNLSC spent 5 years as a consultant developing software products for Phillips Electronics . Since joining PNLSC John has developed the in house network and company website, and has also been responsible for producing the IMASS and  RoeLee Peer Review systems

 

Katharine Coombs (Office Manager and Clinical Trial Data Manager):

Katharine studied chemistry at Bristol University from 1987 to 1991, gaining an MSc. After working as an analytical chemist at the Leatherhead Food Research Association, she joined PNLSC in 1993




 

Secretarial and support staff:

Diane Morris                               Pauline Wassell                          Yvonne Cooper

More detailed curricula vitae and lists of publications are available on request.