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Name: Dr Anjum Memon MBBS, DPhil, FFPH

Academic position: Senior Lecturer and Hon Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Research: Chronic disease epidemiology

Contact details:

Mayfield House
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
University of Brighton, Falmer campus
Brighton BN1 9PH
UK

Tel: +44 (0)1273 644442
E-mail:

Biography:

• MBBS, Sind Medical College, University of Karachi (1986)
• DPhil (Epidemiology) University of Oxford (1993)
• Research Fellow, CRC Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Oxford (1994)
• Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine & Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University (1994-2002)
• Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine & Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University (2002-03)
• Head of the Kuwait Cancer Registry and Consultant Epidemiologist, Kuwait Cancer Control Centre, Ministry of Health, Kuwait (1994-2003)
• Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge (2003-05)
• FFPH, Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health (2006)
• Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Division of Primary Care & Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Brighton and Hove City Teaching Primary Care Trust (2005-present)
  

Teaching focus:

I teach epidemiological principles and research methods, cancer epidemiology, and public health medicine to medical and postgraduate students, clinicians, and public health practitioners. At BSMS my responsibilities as discipline leader for Population Medicine (PopMed) include curriculum development, planning and administration of teaching activities, identifying and training appropriately qualified faculty to teach the subject, and setting exams/assessments. I supervise students’ research projects and train SpR/SpT in academic public health. I also design and conduct postgraduate courses in research methods in epidemiology, scientific writing, and epidemiology for public health practice.

Research focus:

Chronic disease epidemiology with a particular focus on cancer epidemiology

Key/recent publications:

Papers:

Kehinde EO, Akanji AO, Al-Hunayan A, Memon A, Luqmani Y, et al. Do differences in age specific androgenic steroid hormone levels account for differing prostate cancer rates between Arabs and Caucasians?Int J Urol, 13: 354-61, 2006.

Kehinde EO, Akanji AO, Memon A, et al. Prostate cancer risk: the significance of differences in age related changes in serum conjugated and unconjugated steroid hormone concentrations between Arab and Caucasian men. Int Urol Nephrol, 38: 33-44, 2006.

Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration. Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: An individual participant meta-analysis. JAMA, 294: 1799-1809, 2005.

Memon A, Radovanovic Z, Suresh A. Epidemiological evidence for a link between postpartum thyroiditis and thyroid cancer. Eur J Epidemiol , 19: 607-609, 2004.

Siddique I, El-Naga HA, Memon A, Thalib L, Hasan F, Al-Nakib B. CLIP score as a prognostic indicator for hepatocellular carcinoma: Experience with patients in the Middle East. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol, 16: 675-680, 2004.

Memon A, Berrington de González A, Luqmani Y, Suresh A. Family history of benign thyroid disease and cancer and risk of thyroid cancer. Eur J Cancer , 40: 754-760, 2004.

Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration. Collaborative meta-analysis of prospective studies of plasma fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease. Eur J Cardiov Prev R, 11: 9-17, 2004.

Siddique I, Abu El-Naga H, Madda JP, Memon A, Hasan F. Sampling variability on percutaneous liver biopsy in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Scand J Gastroenterol, 38: 427-432, 2003.

Siddique I, El-Naga HA, Memon A, Hasan F. Validation of the CLIP score as a prognostic indicator for hepatocellular carcinoma: Experience in Middle Eastern patients. Gastroenterology (suppl.)124: 4, 2003.

Memon A, Varghese A, Suresh A. Benign thyroid disease and dietary factors in thyroid cancer: A case-control study in Kuwait. Brit J Cancer, 86: 1745-1750, 2002.

Memon A, Darif M, Al-Saleh K, Suresh A. Epidemiology of reproductive and hormonal factors in thyroid cancer: Evidence from a case-control study in the Middle East. Int J Cancer, 97: 82-89, 2002.

Memon A, Moody PM, Sugathan TN, El-Gerges NS, Al-Bustan M, Al-Shatti A, Al-Jazzaf H. Epidemiology of smoking among Kuwaiti adults: Prevalence, characteristics, and attitudes. B World Health Organ, 78: 1306-1315, 2000.

Al-Adsani A, Memon A, Peneva A, Baidas G. Clinical epidemiology of acute myocardial infarction in Kuwait. Acta Cardiologica, 55: 17-23, 2000.

Moody PM, Memon A, Sugathan TN, El-Gerges NS, Al-Bustan M. Factors associated with the initiation of smoking by Kuwaiti males. J Subst Abuse , 10: 375-384, 1999.

Memon A, Pospula WM, Tantawy AY, Abdul-Ghafar S, Suresh A, Al-Rowaih A. Incidence of hip fracture in Kuwait. Int J Epidemiol, 27: 860-865, 1998.

Luqmani YA, Temmim L, Memon A, Ali MAA, Parkar AH. Steroid receptor measurement in breast cancers: Comparison between ligand binding and enzyme-immunoassay in cytosolic and nuclear extracts. Int J Cancer, 71: 526-538, 1997.

Watmough DJ, Bhargava S, Memon A, Syed F, Roy S, Sharma P. Does breast cancer screening depend on a wobbly hypothesis? J Public Health Med, 19: 375-379, 1997.

Memon A and Doll R. A search for unknown blood-borne oncogenic viruses. Int J Cancer, 58: 366-368, 1994.

Contribution in international monographs:

Memon A, Habib H, Ali AA, David V, Al-Asfour A. Cancer incidence in Kuwait, 1994-98. In Parkin et al., eds. Cancer Incidence in Five Continents, Volume VIII (278-281). International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC Scientific Publication No. 155, Lyon, 2002.

Memon A. Prevalence of smoking in Kuwait. In Corrao et al., eds. Tobacco Control Country Profiles (226-227). American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, 2000.

Memon A, Al-Jazzaf H, Al-Muhanna AN, David V. Incidence of childhood cancer in Kuwait, 1983-1989 and 1992-1993. In Parkin et al., eds. International Incidence of Childhood Cancer, Volume II (197-201). International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC Scientific Publications No. 144, Lyon, 1998.

Memon A and Al-Muhanna AN. Cancer incidence in Kuwait, 1988-89 and 1992-1993. In Parkin et al., eds. Cancer Incidence in Five Continents, Volume VII (410-417). International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC Scientific Publication No. 143, Lyon, 1997.

 

Book chapter:

Memon A. (2006).Epidemiological understanding: An overview of basic concepts and study designs. In Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice (2nd Edition). Pencheon D et al. (Eds.).  Oxford University Press,

Critchley G and Memon A. Epidemiology of head injury. In Head Injury: A multidisciplinary approach. Whitfield PC et al. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Memon A. Epidemiology of Gynaecological Cancers. In Gynaecological Oncology. Shafi MI et al. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press, 2010

 

Public health practice:

I have a clinical contract with the Brighton and Hove City Teaching Primary Care Trust for which I provide public health service and advice relevant to the NHS. In this role I contribute to the Integrated Team Work Plans for Mental Health (suicide prevention), Substance Misuse (alcohol) and Primary Care, and provide advice on public health knowledge, standards and practice. I also contribute to the work in health needs analysis, clinical effectiveness, clinical audit and programme evaluation, and review and interpretation of epidemiological / public health literature to support evidence-based practice.