Stephanie Shoop Worrall

Biography

I am an MRC and NIHR-funded Epidemiology PhD student working on a childhood arthritis called ''Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis'' (JIA). I work using data from the Childhood Arthritis Prospective Study (CAPS: http://www.caps-childhoodarthritisprospectivestudy.co.uk/).

My broad research areas are:

1. Remission: Selecting the optimum definition and identifying predictors of this state in JIA

2. Functional ability: Assessing how functional ability should best be measured in adolescents with JIA

I gained my BSc at the University of Liverpool in 2013 and then worked as a research assisstant in veterinary epimdemiology at the Royal Veterinary College. I gained my MSc in Epidemiology(Biostatistics) at Imperial College London in 2014. 

Social responsibility

I have facilitated meetings between members of the public, clinicians and researchers as part of Social Responsibility week 2016 and to organise a new core data set for JIA (CAPTURE-JIA) in 2015.

I regularly present my work to the public, including at the university''s 3-minute thesis competition, for which I was a finalist, and at Faculty events. I have also written several articles on epidemiology (Biological Science''s Review) and specifically my work, gaining me a commendation at the 2015 MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Awards.