Conrad Harrison MSC, MBBS, MRCS

Conrad Harrison graduated from Imperial College London in 2015 with distinctions in Conrad Harrison medical degree and a first-class intercalated BSc in neuroscience. Conrad Harrison then moved to Oxford where Conrad Harrison completed Academic Foundation and Core Surgical Training programs. Conrad Harrison now holds an honorary contract with Oxford University Hospitals as a Specialty Registrar in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and has taken time out of clinical training to complete a DPhil (Ph.D.) at the University of Oxford, where Conrad Harrison is an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and Clarendon Scholar. Conrad Harrison is interested in how we measure the outcomes of reconstructive surgery and what we do with this information. Valid, accurate, and interpretable outcome measures are important for studying the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different treatments, benchmarking exercises, clinical commissioning, and helping people to make informed decisions about the risks and benefits of surgery.

Conrad Harrison research applies contemporary psychometrics and data science to improve the way we measure and interpret the effectiveness and value of healthcare interventions. For example, by developing computerized adaptive tests that can predict patient-reported outcome scores from fewer, individualized questions, and exploring the potential for machine learning algorithms to provide clinical decision support. Conrad Harrison additionally holds a scholarship at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, where Conrad Harrison has contributed to evidence review for NHS commissioning decisions. Conrad Harrison was supervised by Prof Dominic Furniss and Prof Jeremy Rodrigues at NDORMS, Mr. Marc Swan at the Spires Cleft Centre, and externally by Prof Chris Sidey-Gibbons at the University of Texas. We work closely with teams at the Psychometrics Centre (University of Cambridge), the PROVE Center (Harvard University), and the MD Anderson Center for INSPiRED Cancer Care.