Clinician
As a practicing Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, I engage with my patients on management options based on published literature and teach evidence based medicine to clinicians. In my field, I am considered an opinion leader having chaired and contributed to multiple British, European and International Guidelines in Thoracic Oncology and Surgery.
Statistician
On completing my Masters in Medical Statistics, I taught statistics at MSc level, regularly on internationally in professional courses and every Thursday afternoon at the Royal Brompton Hospital Thoracic Surgery Research Club. I undertake my own statistical analyses of my research and collaborative work with other groups in the role of a professional statistician. I have also published primary work on statistical methodology (composite endpoints in clinical trials and novel methodology such as indirect comparison meta-analysis). My MSc thesis was on longitudinal data analysis of lung function data for lung volume reduction surgery.
Researcher
I have published over 100 peer reviewed papers on clinical and translational research focusing on healthcare interventions, diagnostic tests and meta-analyses. I am the Chief Investigator of MARS 2 and VIOLET, two multimillion NIHR grant funded UK wide multi-centre randomised controlled trials of surgery for mesothelioma and lung cancer respectively that I designed and led. In addition, I lead a translational research programme for the discovery of blood based circulating DNA biomarkers for cancer diagnosis.
Teacher
As a Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Imperial College London I taught a specialist choice module on revision, research and evidence based medicine for final year medical students. I authored many award winning clinical textbooks including “Churchill’s Pocketbook of Differential Diagnosis” that takes a cross sectional view of clinical problems and “Medicine and Surgery: an integrated textbook” that approaches medical and surgical management in a longitudinal fashion. I have a broad-based knowledge in medicine and a firm grounding on risk benefit analyses for clinical decision making.
Editor
I have had the privilege to serve as Associate Editor for Thorax and Deputy Statistics Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, handling dozens of submissions each month screening research from around the world. In this role see simple recurrent mistakes of poor quality research that can be easily corrected with a foundation in statistics.
Eric Lim