About > Project Team
The proposed program is led by Andrew Bottomley, PhD. Dr. Bottomley is a Chartered Psychologist and an Assistant Director of the EORTC. He has been Head of the EORTC Quality of Life Department at the EORTC Headquarters for 12 years. He has authored or co-authored over 98 peer reviewed publications in psychosocial oncology and HRQOL.
will lead the daily supervision of activities of the program. He is a psychologist with an MSc in Social/Organizational Psychology and an MA in European Studies on Society Science and Technology - Economics and Management of Innovation. He has been working as a Science and Technology Consultant over the last two years in several projects. Moreover, he has extensive volunteer experience, offering psychosocial support to vulnerable groups for international NGOs as the Red Cross, and also, a practical background in neuropsychological assessment at the Psychiatric Clinic of University of Athens, Greece.Statistical supervision will be provided by Corneel Coens, MSc in Biostatistics. He has been a senior statistical expert for the EORTC Quality of Life Department for over seven years and has over 50 peer reviewed publications. He has been involved in various aspects of HRQOL in many cancer clinical trials, ranging from instrument validation to design, analysis and reporting of HRQOL and psychosocial endpoints. He is a regular contributor to various EORTC educational courses and served as a faculty member of the Joint FECS/AACR/ASCO Workshops.
Additional statistical support will be provided by . Divine obtained his Master’s degrees in Applied Statistics (2006) and Biostatistics (2007) from Hasselt University, Diepenbeek. He will act as a research fellow at the QoL department. He previously worked as a consultant with GlaxoSmithKline Biological’s, Rixensart for 4Clinics on different projects over the past three years. His research interest includes analysis of Quality of Life data from clinical trials, longitudinal data, survival data, multivariate data and categorical data analysis.
Administrative, financial and web support will be provided by Irina Ghislain. Irina Ghislain graduated in Clinical Psychology and has a Master's degree in Psychology. In the past, she has worked for the Quality of Life Department as a Data Manager for field studies.
