Mr Samir Mehta

Mr Samir Mehta

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Senior Medical Statistician

Contact details

Address
Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU)
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Samir Mehta has over 10 years’ experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials working as a Medical Statistician for the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Samir's main portfolios within BCTU are trials related to Renal disease, surgical interventions and Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

Samir has also worked in trials related to Parkinson’s and cardiovascular disease, and is an experienced user of both major statistical analysis software packages SAS and STATA as required by MHRA for analysis of clinical trials.

Qualifications

  • MSc in Medical Statistics, University of Leicester, 2010
  • BSc (Hons) in Mathematics with Business Management, University Of Birmingham, 2009

Teaching

  • Masters in Public Health (Randomisation Methods module)
  • Masters in Clinical Trials (Randomisation Methods module)
  • BCTU’s CPD approved "Introduction to Randomised Controlled Trials in Healthcare" course
  • Small Group tutor for the Medicine and Surgery MBChB Graduate Entry course

Other activities

  • Statistical reviewer for the National Institute for Health Research (HTA, EME, RfPB)
  • Independent statistician on Trial Steering and Data Monitoring Committees contributing to the oversight and direction of externally run clinical trials

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Rate control Therapy Evaluation in permanent Atrial Fibrillation (RATE-AF) trial team, Abdali, Z, Bunting, KV, Mehta, S, Camm, J, Rahimi, K, Stanbury, M, Haynes , S, Kotecha, D & Jowett, S 2025, '', Heart.

SUNRRISE Trial Study Group 2025, '', JAMA.

Lasserson, D, Gaddu, P, Mehta, S, Ignatowicz, A, Greenfield, S, Prince, C, Cummins, C, Robinson, G, Rodrigues, J, Noble, S, Jowett, S, Toshner, M, Newnham, M & Turner, A 2025, '', Health Technology Assessment.

Spencer, S, Desborough, R, Mehta, S, Ives, N & Bhandari, S 2024, '', Clinical Kidney Journal.

Sterliński, M, Bunting, K, Boriani, G, Boveda, S, Guasch, E, Mont, L, Rajappan, K, Sommer, P, Mehta, S, Sun, Y, Gale, CP, van Deutekom, C, van Gelder, IC & Kotecha, D 2024, '', EP Europace, vol. 26, no. 7, euae178.

Bhandari, S, Mehta, S, Khawaja, A, Cleland, JGF, Rowland, N & Cockwell, P 2024, '', Kidney International, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 200-208.

Williams, F, Duda, J, Fenton, S, Martin, D, Melikian, C, Milliken, D, Brocklehurst, P, Mehta, S & Armstrong, M 2024, '', BMJ Open Gastroenterology, vol. 11, no. 1, e001410.

Reinforcement of Closure of Stoma Site (ROCSS) Collaborative and West Midlands Research Collaborative & Benson, R 2024, '', British Journal of Surgery, vol. 111, no. 8, znae159.

Khan, N, Steeds, R, Kyte, D, Fabritz, L, Collis, P, Chua, WWL, Stubbs, C, Mehta, S, Sun, Y, Nulty, M, Kirkham, K & Cotton, JM 2024, '', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 6, e086587.

Smith, ME, Knappett, R, Vickers, D, White, D, Schramm, CJ, Mehta, S, Sun, Y, Watkins, B, Chadburn, M, Jarrett, H, James, K, Brettell, E, Roberts, TE, Bance, ML, Tysome, JR, INTEGRATE (the UK ENT Trainee Research Network) & Saniasiaya, J (ed.) 2024, '', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 2, e0290480.

Lasserson, D, Gaddu, P, Mehta, S, Ignatowicz, A, Greenfield, S, Prince, C, Cummins, C, Robinson, G, Rodrigues, J, Noble, S, Jowett, S, Toshner, M, Newnham, M & Turner, A 2024, '', Health Technology Assessment.

ACTIVE Consortium, Schranz, P, Mandalia, V & O’brien, S 2023, '', American Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 367-378.

Abstract

Bhandari, S, Mehta, S, Ives, N & Cockwell, P 2024, '', Kidney International Reports, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. S81-S82.

Spencer, S, Desborough, R, Mehta, S, Rowland, N & Bhandari, S 2024, '', Kidney International Reports, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. S83-S83.

Letter

Bhandari, S, Mehta, S, Rowland, N & Cockwell, P 2024, '', Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 884–887.