Kate Best

Kate is a Senior Research Fellow working jointly in the Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research and the Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health. She is currently working as part of the HDR-UK Better Care North Partnership to develop and evaluate an anticholinergic medication index to optimise prescribing among older people.

She is a statistician with an MSc in Medical Statistics from the University of Leicester (2010) and a PhD in Epidemiology from Newcastle University (2016). She has experience working with large routinely collected health data sets using a variety of different methods including survival analyses and multilevel modelling