Plenary speakers

Professor Kerry Hood

Kerry Hood is a Professor of Trials and Dean of Research and Innovation for the College of Biomedical & Life Sciences at Cardiff University. She is a Senior Research Leader and mentor for Health and Care Research Wales.  She has a degree and PhD in Statistics and have worked in medical statistics since 1996.

She spent the first part of her career focussed on research in primary care and then in 2006 established the South East Wales Trials Unit and started to develop a broader research portfolio. In 2015 she was appointed to lead the merger of three CTUs at Cardiff and created the Centre for Trial Research and I was the Director until 2023.  

Her specific methodological research interests are in trial design, trial conduct and research inclusion with a particular focus on complex trials, whilst the topic areas she mainly focus on are primary care and infections. She collaborate widely across the UK and Europe on research studies from a broad range of funders including NIHR, NISCHR, EU and industry. She has over 360 peer reviewed research publications and currently hold £32M of research grants as a co-applicant.

She is a Fellow and Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society and the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Society for Academic Primary Care and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.