Corine Driessens

Experience

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  Research voor Belied

  Jan 1988 - Sept 1993

  Telephone interviewer and data entry clerk

  • Interview for sensitive topics like HIV awareness campaigns. • Interviews on public opinions with regard to politics. • Assess consumer behaviour.

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  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

  Oct 1993 - Oct 1997

  Laboratory Technician

  • Make chemical solutions. • Keep cells cultures growing. • Split yeast cells. • Provide support to a postdoctoral fellow doing yeast experiments.

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  NYS Psychiatric Institute

  Sept 1996 - Dec 1997

  Statistical/research assistant

  • Day-to-day communication between team at Columbia University and University of Utrecht supporting Dutch Famine Study• Literature review • Statistical support• Disseminate findings into 2 publications:Brown, A.S., Selten, J.P., Driessens, C., Hoek, W., Susser, E.S. (2000) Affective psychosis following prenatal exposure. American Journal of Psychiatry 157(2), 190 – 195.Brown, A.S., Selten, J.P., Driessens, C., Susser, E.S. (1999) Psychosis following prenatal exposure to famine. Psychiatric Annals 29(3), 145 -150. Show less

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  NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities

  Jan 1998 - Sept 1998

  Project Coordinator

  • Oversee data collection for research project studying aging in adults living with Down Syndrome• Lead data collection team: 3 nurses and 5 interviewers. • Arrange training data collection team• Coordinate data collection with sheltered housing places in which the elderly people with Down Syndrome resided

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  Federation Of Organization-Nys

  Oct 1998 - Jan 2000

  Project Manager

  • Create an assessment instrument to evaluate Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) programmes • Create a data entry programme using SPSS• Organise data collection and data entry• Maintain good relationships with ACT providers • Perform data analyses. • Present the results to local politicians, mental health care providers, and consumers.

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  Stony Brook University

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Statistical research assistant

  • Clean Suffolk County Mental Health project data. • Verify reliability and validity of Suffolk County Mental Health project data & create scaled variables. • Create anonymized mini datasets for external researchers. • Statistical support to Dr Carlson which resulted in publication:Carlson, G.A., Bromet, E.J., Driessens, C., Mojtabai, R., Schwartz, J.E. (2002) Age at onset, childhood psycho-pathology, and 2-year outcome in psychotic bipolar disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry 159(2), 307 – 309. Show less

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  University of Southampton

  Apr 2013 - now

  1. Provide advice for setting up a PCD clinical & research database and assist in transferring existing data into this database2. Provide statistical/epidemiological research advice for existing projects currently active within the PCD team3. Contribute to funding opportunities & dissemination of findings4. Carry out tasks in line with group’s research activities and associated with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia NHS service5. contributed to publications:Lucas, J, Menella, V., Jackson, C., Driessens, C., Horton, K. (to be published 2020) Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia. In Janes S. (Ed) Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine, 2nd Edition Medicine.Wilkins, H., Harris, A., Driessens, C., Kewell, C., Copeland, F., Rubbo, B., ... & Marsh, G. (2019). A review of the experiences of children and young adults with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) treated in a specialist PCD service in England. Show less • Request linked administrative data through Administrative Data Research Network procedure and support external researchers with proposal writing and navigating the network.• Write grant proposals for projects using administrative data to study community mental health services (2018 awarded Nuffield Foundation funding) • Negotiate with owners of health data (NHS-Digital, CPRD, Dept of Health, CQC-Picker Institute) and DWP. • File REC and CAG applications. • Undertake research in SRS-Titchfield (Office for National Statistics) using administrative data to study health and social care diversity among individuals with longstanding physical and psychological health problems. This resulted in publication:Driessens, C., Kingdon, D., Pilgrim, D., Smith, P. (accepted Jan 29 2020) Health and social care diversity among individuals with longstanding physical and psychological health problems: a pooled repeated cross sectional analyses. Community Mental Health Journal DOI: 10.1007/s10597-020-00566-y• Disseminate research findings at conferences.• Set up field of expertise in mental health. • Collaborate with Mental Health Foundation by running a focus group study looking at Mental health service users’ perceptions of data sharing and data protection and publishing the results of this study.This resulted in the following publications:Satinsky, E., Driessens, C., Crepaz-Keay, D., Kousoulis, A. (2018) Mental health service users’ perceptions on the use of administrative data for research International Journal of Population Data Science 3(2):001Satinsky, E., Driessens, C., Crepaz-Keay, D., Kousoulis, A. (2018) Mental health service users’ perceptions of data sharing and data protection: report on a small case study Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics 25(4), 239-242.• Provide supervision at secure data facility of University of Southampton. Show less

  • Senior Research Fellow in Statistics

    Jan 2021 - now

  • Research Fellow - epidemiology

    Sept 2018 - Jan 2021

  • Research Fellow

    Apr 2015 - Sept 2018

  • Research Fellow -Administrative Data Research Centre for England

    Apr 2015 - Jul 2018

  • Research Fellow

    Apr 2014 - Mar 2015

  • Research Fellow providing statistical support

    Apr 2014 - Mar 2015

  • senior research assistant

    Apr 2013 - Mar 2014

  • Senior Research Assistant

    Apr 2013 - Mar 2014