Mike Hughes, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Mike Hughes, M.Sc., Ph.D., is the director of the Epidemiology department at DRG, part of Clarivate. He joined DRG in 2006 and has many years’ experience in the mathematical modeling of healthcare service delivery, cardiovascular and cancer epidemiology, biostatistics, meta-analysis, and systematic reviewing. He has been principal author on many published articles in leading international journals in the areas of risk modeling in intensive care and cardiovascular medicine. He also helped develop national guidelines on behalf of NICE and the American College of Chest Physicians for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, stroke, and hypertension. He is particularly interested in modeling patient flows in cancer and methods for forecasting disease burden in noncommunicable epidemiology. Dr. Hughes received his Ph.D. in risk modeling in intensive care in 2003 from City University, London, and his Ph.D. in statistical causation and foundations of probability theory from the University of Nottingham.