Dr. Ren is ConnectHEOR’s senior statistical expert and advisor, with more than 10 years of experience in conducting statistical analysis in HTA. Kate is also a Senior Research Fellow at School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield. Kate has PhD in Probability and Statistics specialising in Bayesian methods in clinical trial design. She specialises in Bayesian methods in health economics and the elicitation of experts’ beliefs and has extensive experience of conducting evidence synthesis, including, meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, MAIC, etc.

Kate has extensive experience for critiquing network meta-analysis methods in single technology appraisals (STAs) and undertaking network meta-analyses for multi technology appraisals (MTAs) for NICE.