Ly-Mee Yu (MSc, BSc Hons) is a Research Advisor for the RDS South Central and the Lead Trial Statistician at the CTU within the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.
Ly-Mee graduated from Dundee Institute of Technology (Scotland) with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Mathematics in 1991, followed by an MSc in Medical Statistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1992. She then worked as a research assistant at the HIV-GUM unit in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (London).
In 1994, Ly-Mee began working for the Centre for Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where her remit was to provide statistical support to various specialties, including therapeutic medicine, paediatrics, and surgery. During this period, she was also involved in teaching medical statistics to medical professionals.
Ly-Mee joined Oxford’s Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) in 2003, where she led a team of statisticians that collaborated on a variety of clinical studies and supported numerous funding applications.
Throughout her career, Ly-Mee has worked in a wide range of clinical areas, including but not limited to, vaccinology, cardiovascular medicine, infectious disease, surgery, allied health, mental health, neurosciences, respiratory and orthopaedics.