Dr Katie Young

About me:

Katie is a Research Fellow in Health Data Science, working in Professor Andrew Hattersley’s clinical diabetes research team.

Previously Katie worked as a Research Data Coordinator within the team, using data from UK Biobank (particularly primary care records) to identify prevalent and incident cases of diabetes.

In her current role she is working with primary care data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD): developing reproducible pipelines for defining diabetes cohort, and contributing to work on stratified medicine in Type 2 diabetes (with Dr John Dennis) and diabetes misclassification in primary care (with Dr Beverley Shields).

Interests:

• Primary care record usage in research
• Type 2 diabetes
• Stratified / personalised medicine
• Diabetes misclassification

Qualifications:

• PhD in Biophysics (University of Oxford)
• MBiochem Biochemistry (University of Oxford)