Current Professional Activities
In 1988 Doug Altman became head of the newly formed Medical Statistics Laboratory (now Medical Statistics Group) at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK), and in 1995 also became founding director of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) in Oxford. In 1998 he was made Professor of Statistics in Medicine by the University of Oxford.
He is the statistical advisor to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), where he is a member of the editorial "hanging committee". He is a co-convenor of the statistical Methods Group of the Cochrane Collaboration.
He is an active member of the CONSORT Group since 1999, a group dedicated to offering a standardised way for researchers to report trials. The intent is to make the experimental process more clear, flawed or not, so that users of the data can more appropriately evaluate its validity for their purposes.
Doug Altman is also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and editor in chief of Trials.
He is also one of the original authors of the IDEAL framework for improving surgical research.
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