Dr Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi MBChB, PhD

Dr Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Associate Professor

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3354
Email
o.l.aiyegbusi@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
Centre for Patient-Reported Outcome Research (CPROR)
Murray Learning Centre
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Lee is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director, at the Centre for Patient-Reported Outcome Research (CPROR), Department of Applied Health Sciences. His research focuses on the optimisation of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) assessments for clinical research, routine clinical practice, and regulatory purposes.

Lee is the Lead for WP2 of the £12 million LifeArc Centre for Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials leading and co-ordinating the PRO research across the University 麻豆精选, Newcastle University and Queen’s University Belfast.

Lee is a Co-Lead for the PRO themes of the NIHR , . He is also the Co-Lead for the PRO theme of the MRC-Trial Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP) Outcomes .

Lee is also the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Lead for 3 projects. He is Principal Investigator and a co-investigator for over 25 grants with a total grant income of over £10 million. He has published over 100 articles with several first author publications in The Lancet, Nature Medicine, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, and Nature Communications.

Lee has received several invitations as guest speaker and subject expert including an invitation to a roundtable to discuss Long COVID which was convened by the office of the Chief Science Advisor Task Force in Canada. He is currently a for Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (JPRO) curating a special issue on PPIE.

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Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK 2022
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE), University 麻豆精选, UK 2022
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University 麻豆精选, 2019
  • Masters in Public Health (MPH), University 麻豆精选, 2014
  • Masters in Business Administration (MBA), University of Cardiff, 2009
  • Medicine (MBChB), Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, 2007

Teaching

Lee is currently a tutor on the Selection, Collection and Reporting of Outcomes Module of the MSc Clinical Trials programme. He serves as a small group tutor on Year 1 and 2, undergraduate MBChB modules within the College of Medicine and Health. In addition, he supervises undergraduate MBChB projects (HIER & PIP) and PhD students. Lee is a supervisor and marker for the MPH dissertation, and a personal academic tutor (PAT) for the MPH programme. He is the CMH Representative on the Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi) Board of Examiners.

Other activities

  • CMH Representative on the Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi) Board of Examiners.
  • CMH Speak Up Champion
  • Co-Lead for the PRO theme, 
  • MDS Scholar, Westmere Scholarship Award (2017 – 2018)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Kyte, D, Fletcher, B, Horton, M, Damery, S, Aiyegbusi, OL, Anderson, N, Bissell, A, Calvert, M, Cockwell, P, Ferguson, J, Paap, MCS, Sidey-Gibbons, C, Turner, N, Verdi, R & Slade, A 2025, '', Clinical Kidney Journal.

Unni, E, Schougaard, LMV, Aiyegbusi, OL, Mate, KKV, Austin, E, Greffin, K, Roberts, N, Grove, BE, Muehlan, H & ISOQOL Clinical practice SIG PROs in Telehealth Working Group 2025, '', Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes.

Thomassen, D, Roychoudhury, S, Amdal, CD, Reynders, D, Musoro, JZ, Sauerbrei, W, Goetghebeur, E, Le Cessie, S & SISAQOL-IMI Work Package 3 2025, '', BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 25, 56.

McMullan, C, Haroon, S, Turner, G, Aiyegbusi, OL, Hughes, SE, Flanagan, S, Subramanian, A, Nirantharakumar, K, Davies, EH, Frost, C, Jackson, L, Guan, N, Alder, Y, Chong, A, Buckland, L, Jeyes, F, Stanton, DE & Calvert, M 2025, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 14467.

Baddeley, E, Sivell, S, Retzer, A, Nelson, A, Bulbeck, H, Seddon, K, Grant, R, Adams, R, Watts, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Calvert, M & Byrne, A 2025, '', Neuro-Oncology Practice.

Nikolovski, J, Morton, RL, Mercieca-Bebber, R, Armstrong, M, Hartas, G, Rossiter, B, Fagan, M, Tinsley, M, Snyder, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Amin-Korim, R, Sutherland, K & Rutherford, C 2024, '', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 9, e083346.

Yap, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Alger, E, Basch, E, Bell, J, Bhatnagar, V, Cella, D, Collis, P, Dueck, AC, Gilbert, A, Gnanasakthy, A, Greystoke, A, Hansen, AR, Kamudoni, P, Kholmanskikh, O, King-Kallimanis, BL, Krumholz, H, Minchom, A, O'Connor, D, Petrie, J, Piccinin, C, Rantell, KR, Rauz, S, Retzer, A, Rizk, S, Wagner, L, Sasseville, M, Seymour, LK, Weber, HA, Wilson, R, Calvert, M & Peipert, D 2024, '', EClinicalMedicine, vol. 76, 102838.

CHAPTER Group, Hodgetts Morton, V, Man, R, Perry, R, Hughes, T, Tohill, S, MacArthur, C, Magill, L & Morris, RK 2024, '', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 5, e086724.

the PC-COS Children Study Group, Seylanova, N, Chernyavskaya, A, Degtyareva, N, Mursalova, A, Ajam, A, Xiao, L, Aktulaeva, K, Roshchin, P, Bobkova, P, Aiyegbusi, OL, Anbu, AT, Apfelbacher, C, Asadi-Pooya, AA, Ashkenazi-Hoffnung, L, Brackel, C, Buonsenso, D, De Groote, W, Diaz, JV, Dona, D, Galvin, AD, Genuneit, J, Goss, H, Hughes, SE, Jones, CJ, Kuppalli, K, Malone, LA, Mcfarland, S, Needham, DM, Nekliudov, N, Nicholson, TR, Oliveira, CR, Schiess, N, Segal, TY, Sigfrid, L, Thorne, C, Vijverberg, S, Warner, JO, Were, WM, Williamson, PR & Munblit, D 2024, '', European Respiratory Journal.

Chapter

Peipert, D, Calvert, M & Aiyegbusi, OL 2025, . in M Reaney (ed.), Patient-centricity in the Biopharmaceutical Industry: Are We Nearly There Yet? A collection of perspectives from researchers, approvers and patients. IQVIA, pp. 62-69. <>

Comment/debate

Aiyegbusi, OL 2024, '', Kidney International Reports.

Taylor, S, Law, K, Coomber鈥慚oore, J, Davies, M, Thistlethwaite, F, Calvert, M, Aiyegbusi, O & Yorke, J 2024, '', Systematic Reviews, vol. 13, no. 1, 117.

Other report

Elsman, EBM, Mokkink, LB, Terwee, CB, Beaton, D, Butcher, NJ, Gagnier, JJ, Tricco, AC, Aiyegbusi, OL, Berardi, A, Farmer, J, Haywood, KL, Krause, KR, Mayo-Wilson, E, Mehdipour, A, Szatmari, P, Touma, Z, Hofstetter, C, Markham, S, Ricketts, J, Smith, M, Moher, D & Offringa, M 2024, . <>

Review article

Khatsuria, F, McMullan, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Shaw, KL, Iqbal, R, Kinsella, F, Wilson, K, Pyatt, L, Lewis, M, Weldon, SMR, Burns, D, Chakraverty, R, Calvert, M & Hughes, S 2024, '', The Lancet Oncology, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. e476-e488.

Sakthivel, P, Mostafa, A & Aiyegbusi, OL 2024, '', Clinical Kidney Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, sfad269.