Dr. Patrick Skippen is the Head of Data Management and Health Informatics in the Data Sciences unit at the Hunter Medical Research Institute.
Dr Skippen has a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours I) and a PhD in Neuroscience. He completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Neuroscience Research Australia in the Centre for Pain IMPACT in 2022. He gained further experience in clinical trials as a Trial Coordinator at the Mater Oncology Research unit.
Dr Skippen has been involved in clinical trials at various levels, ensuring accurate, secure, and adherent data capture is undertaken. He understands the needs of excellent Data Management principles at all levels, from site level data capture, through to whole study data monitoring and beyond. He is an advisor to the Australian Clinical Trials Education Centre and is currently developing a Data Management training course. Patrick holds Good Clinical Practice certification.
Dr Skippen provides advice and support on a consultancy basis in Data Management to several national and international research groups. As an HMRI REDCap administrator, he oversees some 1,500+ research studies. He is ranked 8th in Australia in REDCap and 93rd worldwide. As Head of Data Management and Health Informatics, he oversees a team of skills staff to design, build, and maintain research databases across a wide variety of therapeutic areas. The Data Management team at HMRI have experience in dozens of registry designs, including several national registries. Dr Skippen also provides and manages Clinical Data Management support for a wide variety of studies, including several large multi-national studies. In this role, he and the larger Data Management unit overseas data quality checks, actions data requests, maintains the integrity and security of patient data, and provides expert advice and assistance on Data Management needs.
Dr Skippen is a member of the Society for Clinical Research Sites, Australian Clinical Trials Education Centre (A-CTEC), NSW Regional Health Partners, Australasian Brain Stimulation Society, and the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
