Dr Yongzhong Sun Bsc, MSc, MSc, PhD

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Medical Statistician

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 4442
Email: y.sun@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU)
Institute of Applied Health Research
Public Health Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr. Sun studied his BSc in mathematics at Shanxi university and MSc in Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University and had been working as a lecturer in higher education in China for about 10 years.

He then moved to the UK, completing a PhD in Pure Mathematics at the University of Birmingham in 2003 and an MSc in Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester in 2008.

Qualifications

MSc in Medical Statistics, University of Leicester, 2008
PhD in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Birmingham, 2003

Biography

Dr. Sun studied his BSc in Mathematics at Shanxi university and MSc in Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University and had been working as a lecturer in higher education in China for about 10 years.

Yongzhong then moved to the UK, completing a PhD in Pure Mathematics at the University of Birmingham in 2003 and an MSc in Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester in 2008. Since then, he has been working as a medical statistician. He joined the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit in 2015.

Research

Medical Statistics
Group Theory
Fuzzy Mathematics

Research Centres and Groups

Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU)

Publications

Clive Ballard, Martin Orrell, Sun YongZhong, Esme Moniz-Cook, Jane Stafford, Rhiannon Whittaker, Bob Woods, Anne Corbett, Lucy Garrod, Zunera Khan, Barbara Woodward-Carlton,Jennifer Wenborn, Jane Fossey. Impact of Antipsychotic Review and Nonpharmacological Intervention on Antipsychotic Use, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms, and Mortality in People With Dementia Living in Nursing Homes: A Factorial Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial by the Well-Being and Health for People With Dementia (WHELD) Program Am J Psychiatry 2016 Mar 20; 173(3):252-62. Epub 2015 Nov 20.

Williams JM, Crane C, Barnhofer T, Brennan K, Duggan DS, Fennell MJ, Hackmann A, Krusche A, Muse K, Von Rohr IR, Shah D, Crane RS, Eames C, Jones M, Radford S, Silverton S, Sun Y, Weatherley-Jones E, Whitaker CJ, Russell D, Russell IT. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for preventing relapse in recurrent depression: A randomized dismantling trial. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2014 Apr; 82(2):275-86. doi: 10.1037/a0035036. Epub
2013 Dec 2.

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