Dr Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi MBChB, PhD

Dr Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Associate Professor

Contact details

Address
Centre for Patient-Reported Outcome Research (CPROR)
Murray Learning Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Lee is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director, at the Centre for Patient-Reported Outcome Research (CPROR), Institute of Applied Health Research. 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 themes of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre BirminghamApplied Research Collaboration West Midlands. He is also the Co-Lead for the PRO theme of the MRC-Trial Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP) Outcomes working group.

Lee is also the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Lead for 3 projects. 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 including an invitation to a roundtable to discuss Long COVID which was convened by the office of the Chief Science Advisor Task Force in Canada. He is currently a Guest Editor for Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (JPRO) curating a special issue on PPIE.

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 Medical and Dental Sciences. 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. He is the MDS Representative on the Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi) Board of Examiners.

Other activities

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Nikolovski, J, Morton, RL, Mercieca-Bebber, R, Armstrong, M, Hartas, G, Rossiter, B, Fagan, M, Tinsley, M, Snyder, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Amin-Korim, R, Sutherland, K & Rutherford, C 2024, 'Acceptability and timing considerations when administering patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) among people with chronic health conditions who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD): a qualitative study protocol', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 9, e083346. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083346

Yap, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Alger, E, Basch, E, Bell, J, Bhatnagar, V, Cella, D, Collis, P, Dueck, AC, Gilbert, A, Gnanasakthy, A, Greystoke, A, Hansen, AR, Kamudoni, P, Kholmanskikh, O, King-Kallimanis, BL, Krumholz, H, Minchom, A, O'Connor, D, Petrie, J, Piccinin, C, Rantell, KR, Rauz, S, Retzer, A, Rizk, S, Wagner, L, Sasseville, M, Seymour, LK, Weber, HA, Wilson, R, Calvert, M & Peipert, D 2024, 'Advancing Patient-Centric Care: Integrating Patient Reported Outcomes for Tolerability Assessment in Early Phase Clinical Trials – Insights from an Expert Virtual Roundtable', EClinicalMedicine, vol. 76, 102838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102838

CHAPTER Group, Hodgetts Morton, V, Man, R, Perry, R, Hughes, T, Tohill, S, MacArthur, C, Magill, L & Morris, RK 2024, 'Childbirth Acquired Perineal Trauma study (CHAPTER): a UK prospective cohort study protocol', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 5, e086724. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086724

the PC-COS Children Study Group, Seylanova, N, Chernyavskaya, A, Degtyareva, N, Mursalova, A, Ajam, A, Xiao, L, Aktulaeva, K, Roshchin, P, Bobkova, P, Aiyegbusi, OL, Anbu, AT, Apfelbacher, C, Asadi-Pooya, AA, Ashkenazi-Hoffnung, L, Brackel, C, Buonsenso, D, De Groote, W, Diaz, JV, Dona, D, Galvin, AD, Genuneit, J, Goss, H, Hughes, SE, Jones, CJ, Kuppalli, K, Malone, LA, Mcfarland, S, Needham, DM, Nekliudov, N, Nicholson, TR, Oliveira, CR, Schiess, N, Segal, TY, Sigfrid, L, Thorne, C, Vijverberg, S, Warner, JO, Were, WM, Williamson, PR & Munblit, D 2024, 'Core Outcome Measurement Set for Research and Clinical Practice in Post COVID-19 Condition (Long COVID) in Children and Young People: An International Delphi Consensus Study “PC-COS Children”', European Respiratory Journal. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01761-2023

Elsman, E, Aiyegbusi, OL & Offringa, M 2024, 'Guideline for reporting systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs): PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 2024', Quality of Life Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-024-03634-y

Elsman, E, Aiyegbusi, OL & Offringa, M 2024, 'Guideline for reporting systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs): PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 2024', Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, vol. 22, no. 1, 48. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-024-02256-9

Elsman, EBM, Mokkink, LB, Terwee, CB, Beaton, D, Gagnier, JJ, Tricco, AC, Baba, A, Butcher, NJ, Smith, M, Hofstetter, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Berardi, A, Farmer, J, Haywood, KL, Krause, KR, Markham, S, Mayo-Wilson, E, Mehdipour, A, Ricketts, J, Szatmari, P, Touma, Z, Moher, D & Offringa, M 2024, 'Guideline for reporting systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs): PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 2024', Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, vol. 8, no. 1, 64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41687-024-00727-7

Elsman, E, Aiyegbusi, OL & Offringa, M 2024, 'Guideline for reporting systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs): PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 2024', Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111422

Comment/debate

Aiyegbusi, OL 2024, 'Comprehensive conservative care for kidney failure: The need for evidence-based guidance', Kidney International Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2024.06.013

Taylor, S, Law, K, Coomber‑Moore, J, Davies, M, Thistlethwaite, F, Calvert, M, Aiyegbusi, O & Yorke, J 2024, 'Correction: Patient‑reported outcome (PRO) instruments used in patients undergoing adoptive cell therapy (ACT) for the treatment of cancer: a systematic review', Systematic Reviews, vol. 13, no. 1, 117. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-024-02540-1

Aiyegbusi, OL, McMullan, C, Hughes, SE, Turner, GM, Haroon, S, Hotham, R, Brown, K, Alder, Y, Agyen, L, Buckland, L, Camaradou, J, Chong, A, Jeyes, F, Matthews, KL, Moore, P, Ormerod, J, Price, G, Saint-Cricq, M, Stanton, D, Walker, A & Calvert, MJ 2024, 'Implementation of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) for the therapies for long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals (TLC) project', Research Involvement & Engagement, vol. 10, no. 1, 120. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-024-00654-3

Shaw, KL, Calvert, MJ, Borrow, P, Chakera, E, Chakraverty, R, Hughes, SE, Khatsuria, F, Kinsella, FAM, McMullan, C, Richardson-Abraham, J, Yarosh, V & Aiyegbusi, OL 2024, 'Integrating Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement in Translational Medicine', The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01552-6

Other report

Elsman, EBM, Mokkink, LB, Terwee, CB, Beaton, D, Butcher, NJ, Gagnier, JJ, Tricco, AC, Aiyegbusi, OL, Berardi, A, Farmer, J, Haywood, KL, Krause, KR, Mayo-Wilson, E, Mehdipour, A, Szatmari, P, Touma, Z, Hofstetter, C, Markham, S, Ricketts, J, Smith, M, Moher, D & Offringa, M 2024, Guideline for Reporting Systematic Reviews of Outcome Measurement Instruments: Explanation & Elaboration. <https://www.prisma-statement.org/s/PRISMA-COSMIN-EE-Full-reports-version-June-2024.pdf>

Review article

Khatsuria, F, McMullan, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Shaw, KL, Iqbal, R, Kinsella, F, Wilson, K, Pyatt, L, Lewis, M, Weldon, SMR, Burns, D, Chakraverty, R, Calvert, M & Hughes, S 2024, 'Development of a conceptual framework for an electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) system measuring symptoms and impacts of CAR T-cell therapies in patients with haematological malignancies', The Lancet Oncology, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. e476-e488. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(24)00256-0

Sakthivel, P, Mostafa, A & Aiyegbusi, OL 2024, 'Factors that influence the selection of conservative management for end stage renal disease – a systematic review', Clinical Kidney Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, sfad269. https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfad269

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