Qualifications 

Master of Applied Statistics, Macquarie University 

Bachelor of Science, Macquarie University 

Elaine Beller is a biostatistician who joined Bond University in July 2010. She was
previously the Director of the Queensland Clinical Trials Centre, University of
Queensland and Princess Alexandra Hospital. During 2009 she was a Visiting Research
Scientist at the UK Cochrane Centre and the Centre for Statistics in Medicine at the
University of Oxford. 

Her research interests include the reporting of clinical research, better conduct and use
of randomised controlled trials, and outcomes measurement in clinical trials. Elaine has
been involved in the design, conduct and analysis of controlled clinical trials for more
than 20 years, and has worked in many therapeutic areas including oncology, cardiology,
diabetes, orthopaedics and nephrology. During that time she was instrumental in the
establishment of several investigator-driven clinical trials groups, and has managed
support teams for these groups, including study coordination, data management,
statistical design and analysis, and study monitoring. Elaine has more than 50
peer-reviewed publications related to her work in clinical research. 

Elaine has developed and led numerous workshops on clinical trials methods, systematic
reviews, and epidemiology for clinicians, research scientists, statisticians and research
coordinators, has developed online teaching materials in these areas, and led a
successful academic statistical consulting service for clinical researchers.

Articles

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A is for aphorism: If many treatments are used for a disease, all are insufficient (with Georga Cooke, Tammy Hoffmann, and Chris Del Mar), Australian Family Physician (2012)

Extract:
The aphorism, ‘If many treatments are used for a disease, all are insufficient’ seems self...

 

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Addressing antibiotic resistance: Focusing on acute respiratory infections in primary care (with Chris Del Mar, Paul Glasziou, John B. Lowe, Mieke L. van Driel, and Tammy Hoffmann), Australian Family Physician (2012)

Extract:
We have been aware for decades – perhaps as a somewhat far-off theoretical problem –...

 

Cardiac surgery in the presence of dialysis: Effect on mid-term outcomes and quality of life (with Hasanga Jayasekera, Nigel Pinto, Julie Mundy, Annabel Wood, Rayleene Griffin, Paul Peters, and Pallav Shah), Heart, lung and circulation (2011)

Background: This study evaluates the impact on short and mid-term outcomes and quality of life...

 

Physical function and health-related quality of life of older adults undergoing hospital rehabilitation: How strong is the association? (with Steven McPhail and Terry Haines), Journal of the American geriatrics society (2010)

Extract:

To the Editor: When an elderly patient has a first-time presentation of psychiatric symptoms, a...

 

Contemporary results following surgical repair of acute type A aortic dissection (AAAD): A single centre experience (with Andrew J. M. Campbell-Lloyd, Julie Mundy, Nigel Pinto, Annabelle Wood, Stephen Strahan, and Pallav Shah), Heart, lung and circulation (2010)

Objectives: The study aims to define predictors of neurological dysfunction, 30-day mortality, long-term survival...

 

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