Dr Lois Kim

Lois is a Senior Research Associate in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit in the Dept of Public Health and Primary Care. Her research interests include application of simulation modelling methods to provide evidence for policy in a range of applications, including CVD screening and management, AAA screening and intervention, and blood donation. Her work focusses on the evaluation of stratified and personalised policies around timing and frequency of screening and intervention, which offer opportunities to optimise outcomes for patients and cost-effectiveness.

Recent work has included evaluation of personalised recall intervals for blood donation, the potential use of polygenic risk scores to inform screening for AAA, and the long-term impact of COVID on AAA services.

Lois holds a BSc Biochemistry from the University of York, MSc Medical Statistics from LSHTM and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her early work and PhD at the MRC Biostatistics Unit formed the base of evidence for the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), informing the current UK national screening programme. She subsequently worked as a lecturer at LSHTM, teaching survival analysis and statistics in epidemiology alongside research in CVD, CKD and dementia. She is currently a Senior Research Associated based in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit and affiliated to the Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) in Blood Donor Health and Behaviour, in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge.