John Norrie

John Norrie is the Director of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit (ECTU) at University of Edinburgh. He has over 30 years of experience in randomized trials at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen in Scotland, United Kingdom. He led a multidisciplinary team of around 60 statisticians, trial managers, data managers, health economists, PPI members, and clinicians to design and deliver ECTU's portfolio of NIHR/HTA and other publicly funded, as well as commercially funded, randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies, of drugs, devices and complex interventions. He currently chairs the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation committee advising UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) on funding of large RCTs designed to improve patient care.