Dr David Culliford MSc, PhD

Senior Medical Statistician

David Culliford is a Senior Medical Statistician within the School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton. David works in the Data Science Hub which is part of NIHR CLAHRC Wessex, providing statistical consultancy services to all CLAHRC Wessex researchers. David’s publications cover several clinical specialties and his research often uses large electronic health databases with a complex structure. David’s methodological interests include survival analysis, with a particular focus on methods which deal with missing data.

Don’t forget to check whether your statistical methods have assumptions. There is rarely such a thing as a free lunch in the world of statistics!

David Culliford completed an MSc in Medical Statistics from the University of Southampton in 2003 and subsequently completed a PhD in the statistics and epidemiology of total joint replacement surgery. He has worked as a statistician at Southampton for over ten years, firstly as a methodological researcher within the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI) and since 2007 working in medical statistician in the Faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences.

While working in S3RI, David worked on a research project exploring non-response in small area estimation using census-linked survey data.

Throughout his spell with the Faculty of Medicine, David worked mainly as an applied statistician in several disease areas, but mainly in the rheumatic diseases.

His current role is split between statistical consultancy/advice and analytical work and he has particular expertise in descriptive epidemiology using large general practice databases. Although his outputs are predominantly applied, he has methodological interests in survival analysis and multiple imputation.

David has latterly been acting as deputy to the director of the Data Science Hub, Dr Thomas Monks.

David holds an honorary position as a medical statistician a the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford.