Dr Foster Unit: Our people
Dr Roxana Alexandrescu
Research Assistant
Roxana is a research assistant at the Dr Foster Unit. Her research focuses on the Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios and risk adjustment methods.
- Address:
- Dr Foster Unit, 12 Smithfield st, London EC1A 9LA, Not Applicable, N/A
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 7332 8843
- Email:
- Webpage:
- /medicine/people/r.alexandrescu/
Dr Paul P Aylin
Clinical Reader in Epidemiology & Public Health
Paul Aylin is a Clinical Reader of Epidemiology and Public Health and assistant director of the Dr Foster Unit at Imperial. He trained in Public Health Medicine and his area of interest is health services research. He has worked on patient mortality at practice level for the Shipman Inquiry and investigated paediatric cardiac surgery at Bristol for the Bristol Inquiry.
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 7594 3334
- Email:
- Webpage:
- /medicine/people/p.aylin/
Dr R Alex Bottle
Non-Clinical Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Alex is a lecturer in medical statistics and is the chief analyst within the Dr Foster Unit. His background is in epidemiology and statistics. Since secondment to the Shipman Inquiry, he developed the methodology behind the web-based national monitoring tools produced by Dr Foster Intelligence, widely used in the NHS.
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 7332 8964
- Email:
- Webpage:
- /medicine/people/robert.bottle/
Mrs Hima Daby
Senior Database Manager
Hima is the Database Manager for the Dr Foster Unit. She is responsible for the production, maintenance and the operational efficiency of the Unit's large health datasets.
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 7332 8962
- Email:
- Webpage:
- /medicine/people/h.daby/
Dr Pia C Hardelid
Pia is a research associate working on indicators of quality and safety of hospital care.
- Address:
- 12 Smithfield St, London EC1A 9L, Not Applicable, N/A
- Email:
- Webpage:
- /medicine/people/p.hardelid/
Emeritus Professor Brian Jarman FMedSci
Senior Research Investigator
- Email:
- Webpage:
- /medicine/people/b.jarman/
Ms Sherry Morris
Dr Foster Unit Support Manager
Sherry is the unit administrator for the Dr Foster Unit and the PA to Dr Paul Aylin. Her responsibilities include managing the diary of the assistant director, purchasing supplies for the unit and monitoring the budget. She also maintains the Dr Foster Unit's webpages.
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 7332 8960
- Email:
- Webpage:
- /medicine/people/sherry.morris/

William Palmer
- Address:
- DFU. 12 Smithfield Street. EC1A , Reynolds Building, Charing Cross Campus
- Email:
- Webpage:
- /medicine/people/w.palmer/

Dr Mansour Taghavi Azar Sharabiani
Research Fellow in Medical Statistics
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 8383 3444
- Email:
- Webpage:
- /medicine/people/mansour.taghavi-azar-sharabiani/
Ms Carmen Tsang
Research Assistant
Carmen is a research assistant at the Dr Foster Unit, working under the remit of the Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality. Her research focuses on the use of administrative data for improving patient safety.
- Address:
- 12 Smithfield Street, London EC1A 9LA, Not Applicable, N/A
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 7332 8809
- Email:
- Webpage:
- /medicine/people/c.tsang/






