Professor Lee Aiyegbusi MBChB, PhD

Professor Lee Aiyegbusi

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor of Patient-Centred Research

Contact details

Email
o.l.aiyegbusi@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@lee_1881
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Address
Centre for Patient-Reported Outcome Research (CPROR)
Murray Learning Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Lee is a Professor and Deputy Director at the Centre for Patient-Reported Outcome Research (CPROR), Department of Applied Health Sciences. His research focuses on the optimisation of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) assessments for clinical research, routine clinical practice, and regulatory purposes.

Lee is the Lead for WP2 of the £12 million LifeArc Centre for Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials leading and co-ordinating the PRO research across the University of Birmingham, Newcastle University and Queen’s University Belfast.

Lee is a Co-Lead for the PRO theme of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Birmingham.

Lee was the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Lead for 2 completed NIHR-funded projects and PPIE Lead for the NIHR Oxford-Birmingham Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Precision Cellular Therapeutics.

He is Principal Investigator and a co-investigator for over 25 grants with a total grant income of over £10 million. He has published over 100 articles with several first author publications in The Lancet, Nature Medicine, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, and Nature Communications.

Lee has received several invitations as guest speaker and subject expert.

Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK 2022
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE), University of Birmingham, UK 2022
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Birmingham, 2019
  • Masters in Public Health (MPH), University of Birmingham, 2014
  • Masters in Business Administration (MBA), University of Cardiff, 2009
  • Medicine (MBChB), Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, 2007

Teaching

Lee is currently a tutor on the Selection, Collection and Reporting of Outcomes Module of the MSc Clinical Trials programme. He serves as a small group tutor on Year 1 and 2, undergraduate MBChB modules within the College of Medicine and Health. In addition, he supervises undergraduate MBChB projects (HIER & PIP) and PhD students. Lee is a supervisor and marker for the MPH dissertation, and a personal academic tutor (PAT) for the MPH programme.

Other activities

  • CMH representative on the Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi) Board of Examiners.
  • CMH Speak Up Champion

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Shahraz, S, Wong, OY, Chotai, R, Knight, S, Globe, D, Patel, MJ, Kaushik, A, Aiyegbusi, OL & Calvert, M 2026, 'Communicating clinical trial information about cancer drug products to patients and healthcare professionals: review of patient-reported outcome messaging', BMJ Oncology, vol. 5, no. 1, e000942. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjonc-2025-000942

Nikolovski, J, Smyth, B, Muthuramalingam, S, McDonald, S, Roydhouse, J, Aiyegbusi, OL, Rutherford, C, Luchterhand, A, Cardelli, P, Morton, RL & the ANZDATA PROMs Delphi Group 2026, 'Developing a Set of Core Patient‐Reported Outcomes for Kidney Replacement Therapy: A Modified Delphi Study', Journal of Renal Care, vol. 52, no. 3, e70069. https://doi.org/10.1111/jorc.70069

Carlson, KH, Duval, L, Grove, BE, Bach Menzel, C, Snyder, C, Ryg, J, Schrøder, JH, Aiyegbusi, OL, Grytnes, R & Schougaard, LMV 2026, 'Do non-responders of a geriatric screening questionnaire face lower one-year survival compared to responders? A retrospective cohort study', Quality of life research: an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, vol. 35, no. 6, 139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-026-04247-3

Alger, E, Aiyegbusi, OL, Dueck, AC, Minchom, A, Pe, M, Peipert, JD, Snyder, C, Symeonides, SN, Wilson, R, Basch, E, Qiao, Y, Bates, SE, Bulbeck, H, Dean, L, Di Maio, M, Hansen, AR, Kholmanskikh, O, Kobayashi, K, Landers, D, Tourneau, CL, Lee, JJ, Ma, BBY, Marshall, LV, Patel, S, Petrie, J, Pond, GR, Prior, K, Rantell, KR, Reeve, JF, Solovyeva, O, Wages, NA, Weber, HA, Calvert, MJ & Yap, C 2026, 'International Consensus-Driven Recommendations for Patient-Reported Outcome Research Objectives in Early Phase Dose-Finding Oncology Trials: OPTIMISE-ROR', Journal of Clinical Oncology . https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO-25-01625

Nikolovski, J, Franklin, M, Morton, RL, Armstrong, M, Hartas, G, Rossiter, B, Fagan, M, Tinsley, M, Levesque, J-F, Sutherland, K, Mercieca-Bebber, R, Snyder, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Power, R, De Lisser-Howarth, T, Troiani, JP, Maher, J, Leonard, J, Elias, K & Rutherford, C 2026, 'Physiotherapist and nurse perspectives on the acceptability and timing of patient-reported outcome measures in clinical practice: Balancing standardisation and flexibility', Quality of Life Research, vol. 35, no. 7, 177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-026-04277-x

Phillips, T, Harris, S, Aiyegbusi, OL, Benavente, M, Cockwell, P, Kalra, PA, Roderick, PJ, Wheeler, DC, Taal, MW & Fraser, SDS 2026, 'Potentially modifiable factors associated with longitudinal health-related quality of life in the National Unified Renal Translational Research Enterprise CKD (NURTuRE-CKD) cohort', American Journal of Nephrology. https://doi.org/10.1159/000551177

Aiyegbusi, OL, McCorry, NK, Calvert, MJ, Peipert, JD, Cruz Rivera, S, Muni-Lofra, R, Alexis, S, Awan, F, Bailey, T, Billingham, L, Callaghan, R, Collins, C, Currie, BM, Dixon, M, Duddridge, M, Ennis, J, Fred, L, Greenwell, S, Griffiths, C, Hareendran, A, Illoh, OA, Leeson-Beevers, K, Letchemanan, K, Lister, SP, McCabe, C, McFatrich, M, McKnight, AJ, McLaughlin, F, Moldovan, R, Murray, LT, O'Connor, DJ, Oko-osi, H, Oni, L, Pritchard, KM, Rantell, KR, Straub, V, Barrett, TG & LifeArc Accelerating Rare Disease Trials (ARDT) centre 2026, 'Recommendations for the use of clinical outcome assessments in rare disease drug development', EClinicalMedicine, vol. 98, 104073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2026.104073

DiModica, L, Wong, OY, Knight, S, Calvert, M, Aiyegbusi, OL, Shahraz, S, Hao, Y & Globe, D 2026, 'Requirements for patient-reported outcomes and data analytics in health technology assessment in England, France and Germany, and the need for methods harmonization across European markets: a qualitative interview study', Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, vol. 10, no. 1, 80. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41687-026-01059-4

Guan, N, Turner, G, Hotham, R, Lange, D, Brown, KR, McMullan, C, Hughes, SE, Aiyegbusi, OL, Matthews, K, Jackson, L, Yahyouche, A, Alder, Y, Jeyes, F, Buckland, L, Chong, A, Stanton, DE, Calvert, M & Haroon, S 2026, 'Self-management of long COVID symptoms with over-the-counter medicines and other non-prescribed therapies: a cross-sectional survey', BMC Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-28017-5

Boateng, I, Phillips, T, Harris, S, Aiyegbusi, OL, Cockwell, P, Kalra, PA, McDonnell, T, Lucas, B, Roderick, PJ, Wheeler, DC, Taal, MW & Fraser, SDS 2026, 'The impact of multiple long-term conditions on mortality, progression to kidney failure and health-related quality of life among people with chronic kidney disease: a multicentre cohort study (NURTuRE-CKD)', Annals of Medicine, vol. 58, no. 1, 2692812. https://doi.org/10.1080/07853890.2026.2692812

Shaw, KL, Hughes, SE, Aiyegbusi, OL, Ansell, J, Chakera, E, Chakraverty, R, Chatterley, M, Ferguson, P, Khatsuria, F, Lloyd, R, McMullan, C, Peipert, JD, Pyatt, L, Yarosh, V & Calvert, MJ 2026, 'The PRO-CAR-T™ study: achieving excellence in patient and public involvement and engagement', Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, vol. 10, 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41687-026-01036-x

Comment/debate

Calvert, M, Kamudoni, P, Yap, C, Snyder, C, Wilson, R & Aiyegbusi, OL 2026, 'Optimising patient centred drug development to realise impact', Communications Medicine, vol. 6, no. 1, 285. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-026-01634-2

Review article

Rylands, AJ, Maruszczyk, K, Aiyegbusi, OL, Bouslouk-Marx, M, Collis, P, Illoh, O, Keeley, T, King-Kallimanis, BL, Martin, A, Mazza, GL, McMullan, C, Molsen-David, E, O’Connor, D, Peipert, JD, Roydhouse, J, Snyder, C, Yelland, E & Calvert, MJ 2026, 'Designing and Implementing Real-World Patient-Reported Outcomes—Emerging Recommendations: A Good Practices Report of an ISPOR Task Force', Value in Health, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 921-931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2026.02.018

Man, R, Le Vance, J, Popa, Y, Wilson, D, Tohill, S, Maltby, J, Hodgetts Morton, V, Morris, RK & CHAPTER Group 2026, 'Healing-assessment tools for perineal and cesarean section wounds in postpartum women: A scoping review', Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 18-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/aogs.70089

Aiyegbusi, OL, Kamudoni, P, Wilson, R & Calvert, MJ 2026, 'Maximising the impact of patient-reported outcome and patient preference data for drug marketing: a review of pharmaceutical websites', Drugs & Therapy Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40267-026-01254-9

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