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I am based in the Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, and work across numerous centres within the Division.
Honourary Research Fellow for the University of Erlangen, Germany
I am originally from Piraeus, Greece. I completed my bachelor in Statistics in Piraeus and my interest in computer programming led to a scholarship in the National Technical University of Athens, where I completed an MSc and a PhD in computer engineering.
Immediately after this I presented myself for compulsory military service and served 17 months as a reserve officer in the Signals Corps, with a speciality in informatics. I completed my service in Athens, after spending 7 months in the northern city of Alexandroupoli.
After a traumatic telephone interview I was offered a post in Manchester in 2005, to work as a research associate with primary care data, specifically with the Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS) in the context of an incentivisation programme, the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). Over the years I have used my computational background to delve deep into the torrent of data that is fast becoming available in health care, especially in UK primary care, and have been using even larger databases with patient level data, like the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD, formerly General Practice Research Datalink or GPRD).
Although I have built a career as a health services researcher supported by a Fellowship from the NIHR School for Primary Care Research and various research grants, I still am a biostatistician and health informatician at heart. This enables me to investigate existing statistical methods, generate new approaches and implement them in advanced statistical software platforms, mainly in Stata.
My methodological interests include computational statistics and simulation approaches, meta-analysis, structural equation modelling, data mining techniques, (interrupted) time-series analyses and validity in large health care databases. You can access Stata commands I have generated by typing net from http://statanalysis.co.uk/ within the Stata environment.
I work with large-scale primary care databases (PCDs) to investigate important health care issues: the effect of monetary incentives on quality of care, predictors of cancer, cancer screening utilisation, care for people with severe mental illnesses.
From a methodological perspective I am mainly interested in computational statistics and simulations, meta-analysis, data mining techniques, structural equation modelling, interrupted time series analysis, statistical software and the validity issues around large databases in health care.
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
RSS Manchester Local Group Secretary
Biostatistics
Computational statistics / simulations
Meta-analysis
Bootstrapping methods
Structural Equation Modelling
Data mining techniques
Applied mathematics
Interrupted time series analysis
Artificial Neural networks
Algorithms (theory, applications)
Large databases in health care
type net from http://statanalysis.co.uk/ within the Stata environment for a list of software contributions
PhD in Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Information Technology Section. Thesis: An application of statistics, artificial neural networks and dynamic measures in psychiatric diagnosis
MSc in Computer Engineering, N.T.U.A., Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Information Technology Section
Degree in Statistical Science, University of Piraeus
Supervising up to five PhD students, at any time
Supporting Centre for Biostatistics with the “biostats clinics”, guiding medical students with their fourth year project option.
Writing or contributing to blogs:
https://theconversation.com/health-database-could-help-avoid-another-pharma-scandal-23730
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Faivre-Finn, C., Devaney, S., French, D., Holm, S., Kontopantelis, E., Mcwilliam, A., Payne, K., Price, G., Proudlove, N., Sanders, C. & Van Staa, T.
1/11/21 → 31/10/26
Project: Research
Cotterill, S., Bower, P., Elliott, R., French, D., Giles, S., Kontopantelis, E., McMillan, B., Rutter, M., Sanders, C. & Wilson, P.
1/10/20 → 29/02/24
Project: Research
Cullum, N., Abel, K., Ainsworth, J., Arden Armitage, C., Bee, P., Bower, P., Bucci, S., Burden, S., Burns, A., Checkland, K., Dixon, W., Dowding, D., Dumville, J., French, D., Grande, G., Green, J., Griffiths, J., Hodgson, D., Keady, J., Kislov, R., Kontopantelis, E., Lovell, K., Meacock, R., Morciano, M., Munford, L., O'Neill, T., Peek, N., Pendleton, N., Sanders, C., Spooner, S., Stanmore, E., Sutton, M., Todd, C., Turner, S., Van Der Veer, S., Webb, R., Whittaker, W. & Wilson, P.
1/10/19 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
Walshe, K., Allen, T., Ashcroft, D., Ferguson, J. & Kontopantelis, E.
1/09/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
Munford, L., Chandola, T., Evans, J., Kontopantelis, E., Panagioti, M. & Sutton, M.
16/03/20 → 30/09/23
Project: Research
Dalia Tsimpida, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, FHEA (Speaker), Maria Panagioti (Speaker) & Evan Kontopantelis (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Dalia Tsimpida, PhD, MSc, FHEA (Organiser), Evan Kontopantelis (Member of programme committee) & Maria Panagioti (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc
Dalia Tsimpida, MSc, FHEA (Other), Evan Kontopantelis (Other) & Maria Panagioti (Other)
Activity: Other
David Reeves (Participant), Stephen Campbell (Participant), Tim Doran (Participant), Evangelos (Evan) Kontopantelis (Participant), Helen Lester (Participant), Martin Marshall (Participant), Matthew Sutton (Participant), Martin Roland (Participant) & Jose Valderas Martinez (Participant)
Impact: Health impacts
Kontopantelis, E. (Contributor), White, I. R. (Contributor), Sperrin, M. (Contributor) & Buchan, I. (Contributor), figshare , 9 Jan 2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3661877.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/Outcome-sensitive_multiple_imputation_a_simulation_study/3661877/1
Dataset
Sperrin, M. (Contributor), Buchan, I. (Contributor) & Kontopantelis, E. (Contributor), Mendeley Data, 4 Jul 2017
DOI: 10.17632/t85ryvz2p7.1, https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/t85ryvz2p7
Dataset
Kontopantelis, E. (Creator), Mamas, M. A. (Creator), Van Marwijk, H. (Creator), Ryan, A. M. (Creator), Bower, P. (Creator), Guthrie, B. (Creator) & Doran, T. (Creator), figshare , 14 Feb 2018
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4004773
Dataset
Rosa Parisi & Evan Kontopantelis
24/01/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
Rosa Parisi & Evan Kontopantelis
24/01/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
15/02/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Maria Panagioti, Evan Kontopantelis & Aneez Esmail
14/02/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Dalia Tsimpida, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, FHEA, Maria Panagioti & Evan Kontopantelis
25/01/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research