Professor Kerry Hood

Director, Centre for Trials Research

: hoodk1@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 (0)29 2068 7163
: 7th Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park

: Available for postgraduate supervision

I am Professor of Trials and the Director of the UKCRC Registered Centre for Trials Research at Cardiff University. I am a Senior Research Leader and mentor for Health and Care Research Wales.

I have a degree and PhD in Statistics and have worked in medical statistics since 1996. I spent the first part of my career focused on research in primary care and then in 2006 established the South East Wales Trials Unit and started to develop a broader research portfolio. My specific methodological research interests are in trial design, outcome measurement and research inclusion with a particular focus on complex trials, whilst the topic areas I mainly focus on are primary care, infections and learning disabilities.

I collaborate widely across the UK and Europe on research studies from a broad range of funders including NIHR, UKRI, HCRW, EU and industry. I have over 320 peer reviewed research publications and currently hold £35M of research grants. I am a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Society for Academic Primary Care. I co-lead the Trial Conduct Working Group of the MRC-NIHR Trial Methodology Research Partnership with Dr Katie Gillies (University of Aberdeen).

Within the Centre I am the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Lead for Disability.

Current and previous positions

2015 – present Prof of Trials and Director of the Centre for Trials Research, College of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Cardiff University

2009 – 2015 Professor of Statistics, School of Medicine Cardiff University

2006 – 2014 Director, South East Wales Trials Unit, School of Medicine, Cardiff University

2012 - 2013 Deputy Director, Insititute for Translation, Innovation & Methods, School of Medicine, Cardiff University

2010 - 2011 Deputy Head of Department of Primary Care & Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University

2007-2009 Reader in Statistics, School of Medicine (Primary Care and Public Health), Cardiff University

2002-2007 Senior Lecturer in Statistics, School of Medicine (General Practice), Cardiff University.

1997-2002 Lecturer in Statistics, School of Medicine (General Practice), University of Wales College of Medicine

1996-1997 Lecturer in Medical Statistics, School of Medicine (Medical Computing & Statistics), University of Wales College of Medicine

Qualifications & Professional Attributions

2016 Health & Care Research Wales Senior Research Leader

2013 NISCHR Senior Faculty

2002 Member of the Higher Education Academy (formerly the Institute of Learning

& Teaching)

2002 Chartered Statistician Royal Statistical Society

1998 PhD ‘Statistical Aspects of Method Comparison Studies’, School of

Mathematics, Cardiff University

1993 BSc (Hons) 1st class, Statistics and Management Science Techniques, Cardiff

University

Honours and awards

2011 - Leading Wales award for Leadership in the Public Sector

2017 - Cardiff University, Celebrating Excellence Award for Leadership

Research paper awards

2019 RCGP Research Paper of the Year Overall and Category 1 - Clincial Research

C-Reactive Protein Testing to Guide Antibiotic Prescribing for COPD Exacerbations. Butler CC, Gillespie D, White P, Bates J, Lowe R, Thomas-Jones E, Wootton M, Hood K, Phillips R, Melbye H, Llor C, Cals JWL, Naik G, Kirby N, Gal M, Riga E, Francis NA.N Engl J Med. 2019 Jul 11;381(2):111-120. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1803185.

2016 RCGP Research Paper of the year Category 3: Children, Reproduction, genetics, infections

Hay AD, Sterne JA, Hood K, Little P, Delaney B, Hollingworth W, et al. Improving the Diagnosis and Treatment of Urinary Tract Infection in Young Children in Primary Care: Results from the DUTY Prospective Diagnostic Cohort Study. Annals of family medicine. 2016;14(4):325-36.

2015 RCGP Research Paper of the year Category 3: Children, Reproduction, genetics, infections

Butler CC, O'Brien K, Pickles T, Hood K, Wootton M, Howe R, Waldron CA, Thomas-Jones E, Hollingworth W, Little P, Van Der Voort J, Dudley J, Rumsby K, Downing H, Harman K, Hay AD; DUTY study team. Childhood urinary tract infection in primary care: a prospective observational study of prevalence, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Br J Gen Pract. 2015 Apr;65(633):e217-23

Professional memberships

Fellow & Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

2006

Parsons, E. P., Israel, J. A., Hood, K. and Bradley, D. M. 2006. Optional screening for DMD: reasons given by mothers for opting in or out. British Journal of Midwifery 14(12), pp. 710-714.
Williams, D. M., Chestnutt, I. G., Bennett, P. D., Hood, K., Lowe, R. and Heard, P. 2006. Attitudes to fluorosis and dental caries by a response latency method. Community dentistry and oral epidemiology 34(2), pp. 153-159. (10.1111/j.1600-0528.2006.00275.x)
Hawthorne, K., Wood, F., Hood, K., Cannings-John, R. and Houston, H. 2006. Learning to mark: a qualitative study of the experiences and concerns of medical markers. BMC Medical Education 6(April), article number: 25. (10.1186/1472-6920-6-25)
Hood, K., Johansen, A., Duncan, D. G. and Beck, S. 2006. Using dietetic assistants to improve the outcome of hip fracture: a randomised controlled trial of nutrition support in an acute trauma ward. Age and Ageing 35(2), pp. 148-153. (10.1093/ageing/afj011)
Longo, M. F., Cohen, D. R., Hood, K., Edwards, A. G., Robling, M. R., Elwyn, G. and Russell, I. T. 2006. Involving patients in primary care consultations: assessing preferences using discrete choice experiments. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) 56(522), pp. 35-42.
Butler, C. C. et al. 2006. Oral vitamin B12 versus intramuscular vitamin B12 for vitamin B12 deficiency: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Family Practice 23(3), pp. 279-285. (10.1093/fampra/cml008)

2005

Francis, N., Rollnick, S., McCambridge, J., Butler, C. C., Lane, C. and Hood, K. 2005. When smokers are resistant to change: experimental analysis of the effect of patient resistance on practitioner behaviour. Addiction 100(8), pp. 1175-1182. (10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01124.x)
Tatarunaite, E., Playle, R. A., Hood, K., Shaw, W. and Richmond, S. 2005. Facial attractiveness: a longitudinal study. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics 127(6), pp. 676-682. (10.1016/j.ajodo.2004.01.029)
Bennett, P. D., Williams, Y., Page, N., Hood, K., Woollard, M. and Vetter, N. J. 2005. Associations between organisational and incident factors and emotional distress in emergency ambulance personnel. British journal of clinical psychology 44(2), pp. 215-226. (10.1348/014466505X29639)
Robling, M. R., Hood, K. and Butler, C. C. 2005. Interpreting differences over time in patient self-evaluation [Letter]. British Journal of General Practice 55(515), pp. 472-472.
Parsons, E. P., Moore, C. B., Israel, J. A., Hood, K., Clarke, A. J. and Bradley, D. M. 2005. Emphasizing parental choice on newborn screening. British Journal of Midwifery 13(3), pp. 165-168.
Lane, C. A., Hood, K., Huws-Thomas, M. V., Rollnick, S., Edwards, K. E. and Robling, M. R. 2005. Measuring adaptations of motivational interviewing: the development and validation of the behavior change counselling index (BECCI). Patient Education and Counseling 56(2), pp. 166-173. (10.1016/j.pec.2004.01.003)
Butler, C. C., Hood, K., Kinnersley, P. R., Robling, M. R., Prout, H. C. and Houston, H. L. A. 2005. Predicting the clinical course of suspected acute viral upper respiratory tract infection in children. Family Practice 22(1), pp. 92-95. (10.1093/fampra/cmh713)
Wood, F. C., Hawthorne, K., Hood, K. and Cannings-John, R. L. 2005. Can peer review help the marking experience?. Medical Education 39(11), pp. 1156-1157. (10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02298.x)
Cannings-John, R. L., Hawthorne, K., Hood, K. and Houston, H. 2005. Putting double marking to the test: a framework to assess if it is worth the trouble. Medical Education 39(3), pp. 299-308. (10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02093.x)
Vidal-Alaball, J. et al. 2005. Oral vitamin B12 versus intramuscular vitamin B12 for vitamin B12 deficiency. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005(3), article number: CD004655. (10.1002/14651858.CD004655.pub2)

2004

Jacobson, L., Grant, A., Hood, K., Lewis, W., Robling, M. R., Prout, H. C. and Cunningham, A. M. 2004. A literature and medicine special study module run by academics in general practice: two evaluations and the lessons learnt. Medical Humanities 30(2), pp. 98-100. (10.1136/jmh.2004.000176)
Elwyn, G. et al. 2004. Achieving involvement: process outcomes from a cluster randomized trial of shared decision making skill development and use of risk communication aids in general practice. Family Practice 21(4), pp. 337-346. (10.1093/fampra/cmh401)
Cohen, D., Longo, M. F., Hood, K., Edwards, A. G. and Elwyn, G. 2004. Resource effects of training general practitioners in risk communication skills and shared decision making competences. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 10(3), pp. 439-445. (10.1111/j.1365-2753.2004.00503.x)
Edwards, A. G. et al. 2004. Patient-based outcome results from a cluster randomized trial of shared decision making skill development and use of risk communication aids in general practice. Family Practice 21(4), pp. 347-354. (10.1093/fampra/cmh402)
Hughes, M. L., Kitchin, M., Hood, K. and Whittlesea, C. 2004. Adverse drug reactions in the general population - people's experiences and actions. Journal of Applied Therapeutic Research 5(1), pp. 17-23.

2003

Prout, H. C., Butler, C. C., Kinnersley, P. R., Robling, M. R., Hood, K. and Tudorjones, R. 2003. A qualitative evaluation of implementing a randomized controlled trial in general practice. Family Practice 20(6), pp. 675-681. (10.1093/fampra/cmg609)
Butler, C. C., Kinnersley, P. R., Hood, K., Robling, M. R., Prout, H. C., Rollnick, S. and Houston, H. L. A. 2003. Clinical course of acute infection of the upper respiratory tract in children: cohort study. BMJ 327(7423), pp. 1088-1089. (10.1136/bmj.327.7423.1088)
Edwards, A. G., Unigwe, S., Elwyn, G. and Hood, K. 2003. Effect of communicating individual risks in screening programmes: Cochrane Systematic review. British Medical Journal (BMJ) 327(7417), pp. 703-709. (10.1136/bmj.327.7417.703)
Edwards, A. G. et al. 2003. The development of COMRADE - a patient-based outcome measure to evaluate the effectiveness of risk communication and treatment decision making in consultations. Patient Education and Counseling 50(3), pp. 311-322. (10.1016/S0738-3991(03)00055-7)
Michalak, E. E., Wilkinson, C. E., Hood, K., Dowrick, C. and Wilkinson, G. 2003. Seasonality, negative life events and social support in a community sample. The British Journal of Psychiatry 182(5), pp. 434-438. (10.1192/bjp.182.5.434)
Higginson, I. J. et al. 2003. Is there evidence that palliative care teams alter end-of-life experiences of patients and their caregivers?. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 25(2), pp. 150-168. (10.1016/S0885-3924(02)00599-7)
Elwyn, G., Edwards, A. G., Wensing, M., Hood, K., Atwell, C. L. A. and Grol, R. 2003. Shared decision making: developing the OPTION scale for measuring patient involvement. Quality and Safety in Health Care 12(2), pp. 93-99. (10.1136/qhc.12.2.93)
Edwards, A. G., Unigwe, S., Elwyn, G. and Hood, K. 2003. Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about entering screening programs. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2003(1), pp. CD001865. (10.1002/14651858.CD001865)

2002

Rollnick, S., Seale, C., Kinnersley, P. R., Rees, M., Butler, C. C. and Hood, K. 2002. Developing a new line of patter: can doctors change their consultations for sore throat?. Medical Education 36(7), pp. 678-681. (10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01255.x)
Robling, M. R. et al. 2002. The development of a new site-specific measure of quality of life for breast problems: the Cardiff breast scales. Quality of Life Research 11(4), pp. 339-348. (10.1023/A:1015595627501)
Robling, M. R., Kinnersley, P. R., Houston, H. L. A., Hourihan, M. D., Cohen, D. R., Hale, J. and Hood, K. 2002. General Practitioners' use of magnetic resonance imaging: An open randomized trial comparing telephone and written requests and an open randomized controlled trial of different methods of local guideline dissemination. Clinical Radiology 57(5), pp. 402-407. (10.1053/crad.2001.0864)
Parsons, E. P., Clarke, A. J., Hood, K., Lycett, E. J. and Bradley, D. M. 2002. Newborn screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a psychosocial study. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition 86(2), pp. 91-95. (10.1136/fn.86.2.F91)
Butler, C. C., Robling, M. R., Prout, H. C., Hood, K. and Kinnersley, P. R. 2002. Management of suspected acute viral upper respiratory tract infection in children with intranasal sodium cromoglicate: a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet 359(9324), pp. 2153-2158. (10.1016/S0140-6736(02)09091-8)
Jones, A., Fay, J. K., Burr, M. L., Stone, M., Hood, K. and Roberts, G. 2002. Inhaled corticosteroid effects on bone metabolism in asthma and mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, pp. CD003537-CD003537. (10.1002/14651858.CD003537)
Finley, I. G. et al. 2002. Palliative care in hospital, hospice, at home: results from a systematic review. Annals of Oncology 13(Supp 4), pp. 257-264. (10.1093/annonc/mdf668)

2001

Mowle, S., Edwards, A. G., Hood, K. and Kinnersley, P. R. 2001. Benchmarking using simulated clinical scenarios: a feasibility project. British Journal of General Practice 51(469), pp. 658-660.
Butler, C. C., Rees, M., Kinnersley, P. R., Rollnick, S. and Hood, K. 2001. A case study of nurse management of upper respiratory tract infections in general practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing 33(3), pp. 328-333. (10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01668.x)

2000

Edwards, A. G. et al. 2000. The effectiveness of one-to-one risk-communication interventions in health care: a systematic review. Medical Decision Making 20(3), pp. 290-297. (10.1177/0272989X0002000305)
Edwards, A. G., Elwyn, G., Hood, K. and Rollnick, S. 2000. Judging the ‘weight of evidence’ in systematic reviews: introducing rigour into the qualitative overview stage by assessing Signal and Noise. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 6(2), pp. 177-184. (10.1046/j.1365-2753.2000.00212.x)

I am interested in supervising projects in:

Trial Methodology
Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
Inclusivity in Research

Current supervision

Adam Williams

Research student

Past projects

Previous recent PGR projects:

Deciding about research for others: normative, empirical, and legal accounts of proxy decision-making for research and the development of a decision support intervention, Dr VIctoria Shepherd, awarded 2019

Measuring child maltreatment in community-based trials, Dr Gwenllian Moody, awarded 2019

Medication Adherence in Clinical Research and Associated Methodological Challenges, Dr David Gillespie, awarded 2016