Eleni Sakka

Imaging data research manager

Biography

Image Data Manager in the SMARTIS (Systematic Management, Archiving and Reviewing Trial Imaging Services) group, part of Edinburgh Imaging.

Responsible for managing the imaging (from collection, to archiving and QA'ing and preparing scans to be reviewed) for several national and international clinical trials/studies, including the largely known IST-3 trial (3rd International Stroke Trial) which run from 2000-2013 and randomised 3035 patients from 156 hospitals in 12 countries with the aim to assess the benefits and harms of intravenous thrombolysis with the clot-busting drug alteplase within 6 h of acute ischaemic stroke.
Contributing team member in the creation of the SMARTIS group.
Responsible for highlighting the challenges an image manager faces in maintaining high quality imaging data whilst collecting scans from a large number of clinical sites over the duration of a clinical trial, by presenting data to ESC in London (2013).
Contributing team member in image analysis for long term studies such as the Lothian Birth Cohorts and Mild Stroke Study.