Mr James F Potts

James Potts is a senior data manager at the National Heart and Lung Institute.

James studied Applied Statistics at Sheffield Hallam University, including a one year work placement with the pharmaceutical company SmithKline Beecham.  After graduating in 1995 he worked for two years at the Department of Health in London, collating statistics on hospital admissions for mental illness.

In 1997 he moved to the Department of Public Health Sciences at King’s College to initially work on data management and analysis of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey. Subsequently he was involved in the data management and analysis of many other studies in the respiratory epidemiology field and also assisted in the teaching of medical statistics to under graduate students.

In 2006 he transferred with the Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health research group to Imperial College where he continued managing and analysing data from many different international studies investigating the epidemiology asthma and allergy.  These projects include:

• The Europrevall Study of food allergy.
• The Ga²len Studies of and asthma and chronic sinusitis.
• The BOLD Study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.