Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

ISPM Team

Redmond Shelagh, PhD

Medical coding and data quality management

Research - Childhood Cancer Registry (ChCR)

Responsible for medical coding and quality control of medical data for the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry.
Co-author of systematic reviews on vaccination schedules, chlamydia prevalence and Cochrane review of effectiveness of screening.
Coding of cancer diagnoses according to international standards, design and implementation of data quality control and improvement measures. Design and content of new medical databases.
Data exchange and linkages with other cancer registries and as part of international studies.
Extensive experience in systematic reviews and meta-analyses, design of data extraction forms and databases, statistical analysis.

Since 2014:
Medical Coding and Data quality manager, Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
2005 to 2013:
Research Assistant, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
1991 to 2001:
Research Assistant in analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging, Department of Neurology, Inselspital Bern
1998 to 1991:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in multidrug resistance of adult cancer, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Research, Tiefenauspital, Bern.
1984 to 1987:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in molecular biology of breast cancer, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Bern,
1979 to 1983:
PhD in molecular biology at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) London, UK
1976 to 1979:
M.A. Natural sciences degree, University of Cambridge, UK