Mae Chester-Jones
NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow
Mae Chester-Jones is a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and DPhil Candidate in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Oxford. She is supervised by Professor Peter Watkinson and Dr. Stephen Gerry in the Critical Care Research Group alongside Professor Gary Collins (NDORMS) and Professor Marian Knight (NDPH).
She graduated in 2019 with an MSc in Medical Statistics and worked for three and a half years as a Trial Statistician for the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit (OCTRU). She joined the CCRG part-time in 2021 to as part of the Pregnancy Physiology Pattern Prediction Study (4P) to develop reference ranges for the vital signs of pregnant women during labour.
Her research aims to develop a new Maternal-specific Early Warning Score (MOEWS), a risk assessment tool used to predict the likelihood of a women deteriorating using static physiological markers. Pregnant women become very ill, very quickly and without rapid intervention, the results can be fatal or leave women with long term health problems. Her DPhil will use routinely collected data to develop a new assessment tool for pregnant women and investigate the statistical challenges that will affect the tool at the point of use such as missing data and repeated measures. Alongside her DPhil, she is one of the University’s UK Reproducibility Network Local Network Lead where she works collaboratively across the University to engage and expand the Reproducible Research community at Oxford.
Mae's NDORMs profile is here