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Muhammad Riaz MSc (Leicester) PhD (St. Georges, University of London)

Dr Muhammad Riaz

(he/him)

MSc (Leicester) PhD (St. Georges, University of London)

Research Fellow - Statistics

School of Medicine

Email
RiazM3@cardiff.ac.uk
Campuses
Neuadd Meirionnydd, Room 5th Floor, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4YS
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

I have obtained PhD in Medical Statistics & Epidemiology from St. Georges, University of London. I have a broad range experience of research in health sciences. Currently, I am working as Research Fellow at the Centre for Trials Research,Cardiff University. Previoysly, I have worked at various universities in the United Kingdom including Kings College London, St. Georges University of London, University of Leicester, Cambridge University. I have been the co-author of more than 60 manuscripts published in good or even in high impact journals.
I have over 15 years research experience in health sciences; the research work include applied biostatistics & epidemiology: data management, collaboration on the design of studies in health sciences including clinical trials and observational studies, designing statistical analyses, conducting statistical analyses using a broad range of regression models including survival analysis, statistical genetics, statistical computing programming, systematic reviews and meta-analysis and writing manuscripts for publication.

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Research

Dr. Riaz's current research interest lies in the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials as well as systematic reveiw and meta-analysis in health science. Research topics may include psychiatry, infectious disease such as COVID-19 and hepatitis C, Cancer, allergies, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, paediatric, perinatal epidemiology, physical activity, smoking cessation etc. As a statistician, Dr Riaz is currently working with the following clinical trials at CTR, Cardiff University:

  1. LISTEN:Long COVID personalised self-management support co-design and evaluation 
  2. QuicDNA:Integration of liquid biopsy into lung cancer diagnostic pathway
  3. SCHEMA:interpersonal art psychotherapy for people with learning disabilities
  4. ABC-12:Exploring the microbiome in patients with advanced biliary tract cancer in a first-line study of durvalumab (MEDI4736) in combination with cisplatin/gemcitabine.
  5. UPBEAT: A randomised feasibility trial to evaluate a digital system for UPper limB rEhabilitation After sTroke

 

Teaching

Dr. Riaz recently worked as an Assistant Professor in Public Health (Biostatistics) at the department of public health, Qatar University, where he has taught two courses, Research Design and Methods, and Continuous Data Analysis to the MPH students. Prior to this job, he worked as assistant professor at university of Malakand and Quaid-i-Azam University in Pakistan and taught courses in statistics to the BS and MS students. He is intersted in teaching applied medical statistics and epidemiology at undergradaute and post graduate levels and weclome students who need a biostatistical superviosor for there thesis in health sciences. Preveiously, he has been a supervisor/co-supervior for MSc thesis in public health and MS thesis in statistics.

Biography

Dr. Muhammad Riaz obtained his MSc degree in Medical Statistics from University of Leicester, UK in 2007 and PhD from St. Georges University of London, UK in 2017. Prior to joining the Center for Trial Research at Cardiff University, he worked at various universities on very diverse research projects. During these positions, he has co-authored more than 60 published manuscripts.

Education:

2013-2017              PhD in Medical Statistics & Epidemiology

                               St. Georges, University of London, UK

Thesis: A randomized control trial to assess the effect of a physical activity intervention on smoking cessation, depression, and gestational weight gain, and to determine predictors of smoking cessation, among pregnant smokers trying to quit.

2006-2007              MSc in Medical Statistics

                              University of Leicester, UK

Dissertation: Simulating survival time to verify distributional assumption made in cure model (survival analyses), and reporting the extent of bias in the estimates of cure fraction

2000-2001              Diploma in Computer Science

                              Board of Technical Education Peshawar Pakistan

1995-1997             MSc Statistics

                             Department of Statistics, University of Peshawar Pakistan

1993-1994             BSc Mathematics (A & B) and Statistics

                             Degree College Thana Malakand, University of Peshawar Pakistan

 Academic and professional posts since graduation:

Oct. 21-continued    Research Fellow in Statistics (Senior Statistician)

Center for Trials Research (CTR), Cardiff University

Sep. 20- Aug. 21     Assistant Professor in Statistics

Qatar University (QU), Qatar

Feb. 20- Sep. 20     Assistant Professor in Statistics (tenure track)

Quaid-i-Azem, University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Feb.20- Feb.21       Visiting Research Associate in Statistics

Department of mathematics and statistics, Open University, UK

Sep. 19-Feb.20       Research Fellow in Statistics

The Open University, UK

Mar. 19- Sep.19      Assistant Professor in Statistics (short term contract)

University of Malakand Pakistan

Nov. 18– Feb. 19    Freelance work as a Medical Statistician (home based)

King Fahad Medical City Saudi Arabia

Nov. 17 –Oct. 18     Research associate in medical statistics

Department of Health Sciences (TIMMS group), University of Leicester

Oct. 15-Mar. 17       Medical Statistician (Statistical genetics)

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences (DCVS), University of Leicester

Oct. 14-Sep. 15       Research associate in medical statistics

Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge

May 13-Sep. 14       Research Fellow in medical statistics & epidemiology

St. George's, University of London

Mar.12- Sep. 12      Statistician at Phastar, London

Feb.10-Feb.12        Biostatistician

Research & Scientific Publication Center

King Fahad Medical City, Saudi Arabia

Oct. 07-Jan. 10       Medical Statistician/Data Analyst

Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London

Professional memberships

Former fellow member of the Royal Statistical Society during 2016-17

Committees and reviewing

Current reiwer for the following peer reveiw journals:

  • BMJ Open
  • MDPI
  • PLOS-ONE
  • Hindawi

 

 

Supervisions

Statistics, Medical Statistics

Past projects

  • Prevalence and predictors of the recommended level of physical activity among pregnant smokers (Mr. Hekang Zhang, MSc Mathematics, Cardiff University)
  • Factors effecting mothers' and care-takers Knowledge of knowledge of newborn's danger signs (Ms. Noor Afshan, MS/Phil Statistics, UoM Pakistan)
  • Effectiveness of pharmacological and psychological interventions for treating post-traumatic stress disorder in adults with childhood abuse: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis (Ms. Nour Alhussaini, MSc MPH, Qatar University) 
  • Prevalence and risk factors of still births in district swat Pakistan (Ms. Maryam, MS/Phil Statistics, UoM Pakistan)
  • Factors associated with hypertension in Pakistan: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Ms. Ghazala Shah, MS/Phil Statistics, UoM Pakistan)

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