Elizabeth Brownsell

Ovarian Cancer Database Manager (Edinburgh Cancer Informatics)

  • Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Western General Hospital, NHS Lothian
  • Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, University of Edinburgh

Contact details

Address

Street

Inverleith Building
Western General Hospital
Hospital Main Drive

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH4 2XU

Availability

  • 09.00 - 16.30 Mon - Fri
    Tue mornings and Thurs all day - Inverleith Building, Western General Hospital

Biography

Background

Elizabeth gained her Masters degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2009. Her research career began initially with NHS R&D governance at the Royal Infirmary for two years, she then moved over to the QA team, working with clinicians and auditors for three years. In 2016 she began working at the Western General, spending seven years in the Clinical Trials Data Management team working with ovarian, melanoma, upper GI and CUP trials. During this time Elizabeth worked with both the previous OCDB Managers, who encouraged her to take on this role when it became available, and she has now been in post since spring 2023.

 

Elizabeth manages the Ovarian Cancer Database, building patient data profiles from outputs such as SCI Store, TRAK and Chemo Care. The OCDB brings data from all these different systems together, and curates them consistently into useful information for research and service evaluation. Part of her role is to ensure as high a degree of accuracy in the data as possible for all patients with ovarian cancer or borderline tumour diagnoses.  She liaises within the Edinburgh Cancer informatics team to improve database functionality, and also plan updates to ensure we continue to record high quality data to support researchers, auditors and clinicians alike.

Project activity

In the first year Elizabeth was in post she reduced the backlog of new and return patient data from 26 weeks to zero, and patient data is now entered or updated within four to six weeks of clinic visit.

 

Elizabeth has overhauled and updated the OCDB Manual, and it has now been published for the first time. The manual is available on the ECi wiki.

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