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Colin Crooks

Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

Colin Crooks completed his undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS) and B.Med.Sci (Hons) at 糖心原创, before going on to receive his Diploma MRCP (UK) Royal College of Physicians and MSc in Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He completed his PhD on Epidemiology of Upper Gastrointestinal bleeding at the 糖心原创 July 2013 funded by an MRC fellowship and Centenary Award, and is a Graduate Statistician (GradStat) after completing a MSc Statistics at the University of Sheffield.

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Keywords:

Statistical Learning and Topic Modelling, Use and Analysis of Routine Databases, Mapping, Bayesian techniques, Gastroenterology, Multi-morbidity and Risk Assessment, Epidemiology

Research Summary

Colin Crooks has completed his PhD in the epidemiology of upper gastrointestinal bleeding studying its causes and outcomes using case control studies and survival analyses. This work was carried out… read more

Selected Publications

  • CROOKS, C., CARD, T. and WEST, J., 2011. Gastroenterology. 141(1), 62-70
  • OTHMAN F, CROOKS CJ and CARD TR, 2017. Community acquired pneumonia incidence before and after proton pump inhibitor prescription: population based study. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 355, i5813
  • CROOKS CJ, CARD TR and WEST J, 2016. PloS one. 11(10), e0165507
  • CROOKS, C.J., WEST, J. and CARD, T.R., 2013. Gastroenterology. 144(7), 1384-1393

Current Research

Colin Crooks has completed his PhD in the epidemiology of upper gastrointestinal bleeding studying its causes and outcomes using case control studies and survival analyses. This work was carried out in linked the routine databases; (CPRD) Clinical Practice Research Datalink, (ONS) Office for National Statistics, and (HES) Hospital Episode Statistics. After returning to full time clinical training as a gastroenterologist and NIHR recognised Academic Clinical Assistant Professor. He has now completed training and has been appointed as a Clinical Associate Professor in Gastroenterology in the NDDC. Code from his current work on developing statistical learning methods for routine health data is available online at https://github.com/ColinCrooks/

Other areas of interest:

  • Defining exposures and outcomes in linked datasets
  • Measuring the burden of co-morbidity and frailty
  • Competing risk survival analysis
  • Hierarchical Bayesian analysis
  • Adverse effects in spontaneous report databases
  • Bayesian Topic Modelling
  • Efficient clinical trials using routine health care data
  • CROOKS CJ, WEST J and JEPSEN P, 2018. Clinical epidemiology. 10, 107-120
  • OTHMAN F, CROOKS CJ and CARD TR, 2017. Community acquired pneumonia incidence before and after proton pump inhibitor prescription: population based study. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 355, i5813
  • OTHMAN, F., CARD, T.R., CROOKS, C.J., 2016. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 25(9), 1079-1087
  • WALKER, A.J., WEST, J., CARD, T.R., CROOKS, C., KIRWAN, C.C., GRAINGE, M.J., 2016. Blood. 127(7), 849-857
  • ZINGONE, F., ABDUL SULTAN, A., CROOKS, C.J., TATA, L.J., CIACCI, C., WEST, J., 2016. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
  • CROOKS CJ, CARD TR and WEST J, 2016. PloS one. 11(10), e0165507
  • SULTAN, A.A., CROOKS, C.J., CARD, T., TATA, L.J., FLEMING, K.M., WEST, J., 2015. Gut. 64(8), 1220-1226
  • CROOKS, C.J., WEST, J., CARD, T.R., 2015. BMJ Open. 5(6),
  • RATIB, S., FLEMING, K.M., CROOKS, C.J., WALKER, A.J., WEST, J., 2015. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 110(8), 1149-1158
  • ZINGONE, F., WEST, J., CROOKS, C.J., FLEMING, K.M., CARD, T.R., CIACCI, C., TATA, L.J., 2015. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 100(5), 466-473
  • WEST, JOE, FLEMING, KATE M., TATA, LAILA J., CARD, TIMOTHY R. and CROOKS, COLIN J., 2014. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY. 109(12), 1953-1953
  • ABDUL SULTAN, A., TATA, L.J., FLEMING, K.M., CROOKS, C.J., LUDVIGSSON, J.F., DHALWANI, N.N., BAN, L., WEST, J., 2014. The American journal of gastroenterology. 109(10), 1653-1661
  • RATIB, S., WEST, J., CROOKS, C.J., FLEMING, K.M., 2014. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 109(2), 190-198
  • RATIB, S., FLEMING, K.M., CROOKS, C.J., AITHAL, G.P., WEST, J., 2014. Journal of Hepatology. 60(2), 282-289
  • WEST, J., FLEMING, K.M., TATA, L.J., CARD, T.R., CROOKS, C.J., 2014. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 109(12), 1953
  • WEST, J., FLEMING, K.M., TATA, L.J., CARD, T.R., CROOKS, C.J., 2014. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 109(5), 757-768
  • CROOKS, COLIN J., SUNG, JOSEPH and CARD, TIMOTHY R., 2014. Epidemiology of upper gastrointestinal bleeding GI EPIDEMIOLOGY: DISEASES AND CLINICAL METHODOLOGY, 2ND EDITION. 172-184
  • CROOKS, C.J., WEST, J. and CARD, T.R., 2013. Gastroenterology. 144(7), 1384-1393
  • CROOKS, C.J., CARD, T.R. and WEST, J., 2013. PLoS Medicine. 10(4), e1001437
  • CROOKS, C.J., WEST, J., CARD, T.R., 2013. Gastroenterology. 145(6), 1496
  • CROOKS, C.J., WEST, J., CARD, T.R., 2013. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 37(11), 1115
  • CROOKS, C.J., PRIETO-MERINO, D. and EVANS, S.J.W., 2012. Drug Safety. 35(1), 61-78
  • CROOKS, C.J., WEST, J. and CARD, T.R., 2012. Gut. 61(4), 514-520
  • WALKER AJ, CARD TR, WEST J, CROOKS C and GRAINGE MJ, 2012. European journal of cancer (oxford, england : 1990). 49(6), 1404-1413
  • CROOKS CJ, CARD TR and WEST J, 2012. BMC health services research. 12, 392
  • CROOKS, C., CARD, T., WEST, J., 2012. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 36(7), 681-682
  • CROOKS, C., CARD, T. and WEST, J., 2011. Gastroenterology. 141(1), 62-70
  • CROOKS,, WEST,, SOLAYMANI-DODARAN, and CARD,, 2008. Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics. 29(2), 183-92

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