Ann is Director of Statistics at Quantics Consulting Ltd.  Her career to date includes lecturing in Statistics at the University of Bristol, leading the Statistics team at Shell Research, Sittingbourne and heading the Scottish Cancer Intelligence Unit of the Information & Statistics Division of NHS Scotland.  In 2002 she established Quantics as a statistical consultancy, now specialising in meta-analysis and network meta-analysis projects, as well as other areas of biostatistics, in particular bioassay development.  Ann holds a BA in Mathematics, an MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and has a special interest in survival methods.