Deborah Ashby
She is the Director of the School of Public Health and Chair in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials at Imperial College London.From 1980 to 1981, she studied medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and graduated with a Master of Science (MSc) degree.From 1981 to 1983, she undertook postgraduate research in medical statistics at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree.Her doctoral supervisor was Stuart Pocock and her thesis was titled "A statistical investigation of the relationship of serum biochemistry and haematology to alcohol consumption".[7] In the 2009 New Year Honours, Ashby was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to medicine".