Andrew Vincent

Dr Andrew Vincent

Grant-Funded Researcher (C)

Adelaide Medical School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Andrew is a Senior Biostatistician in the Freemasons Centre for Men’s Health (FFCMH), providing training, consultancy, supervision and services to staff, students and affiliate researchers at the University of Adelaide and affiliated institutions. He offers contemporary and advanced statistical methodologies in this consultancy role, and he is also a senior investigator on scientific and clinical programs across a broad spectrum of health and medical research. His particular focus, also embedded in his training and consultancy, is the translation of clinical questions into tractable problems with precise hypotheses and appropriate analytical techniques. He has a high level of proficiency in study design (sample size calculations, cohort selection criteria, randomisation techniques and blinding) and statistical methodologies including penalized regression, survival analyses, generalized linear models, mixed-effects analyses, non-linear (spline) techniques, diagnostic accuracy assessments; and methodological issues including the control of familywise error rates, and the appropriate variable selection/conditioning dependent on predictive vs. causal estimation.
Prior to joining the FFCMH, Andrew was Clinical Biostatistician at the Netherlands Cancer Institute where he worked for 8 years in the clinical trials unit.

Dr Vincent offers contemporary and advanced statistical methodologies in a across a broad spectrum of health and medical research. He is a co-author of over 100 published manuscripts in a variety of medical fields, from basic science through to RCTs and epidemiology. His particular focus is the translation of clinical questions into tractable problems. He has a high level of proficiency in study design (sample size & analysis considerations) and statistical methodologies including generalized linear models, mixed effects analyses, non-linear (spline) techniques, diagnostic accuracy assessments, penalized regressions techniques and time-to-event analyses; and methodological issues including data reduction, family-wise error rate and false discovery rate control, variable selection and/or conditioning, model validation (calibration and discrimination) and the distinction between associative, predictive and causal analyses.

  • RAH9767 (2018; $48,923) Influence of obesity and lipid abnormalities on prostate cancer aggressiveness among men treated for prostate cancer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. – Chief Investigator.
  • APP1145770 (2018-20; $515,550) Validating novel biomarkers relevant to major depression. – Associate Investigator.
  • APP1122342 (2017-19; $312,000) Health impacts of sleep apnea in Australian men- a longitudinal population study. – Chief Investigator
  • NAB – (2017; $100,000) Preparing Australian Farmers for future challenges via an online inactive acceptance and commitment therapy. - Chief Investigator
  • Movember Revolutionary team Award (2015-17, $3,250,000) - Localised prostate cancer: Exploiting alterations in lipid metabolism to improve diagnosis, treatment and molecular imaging of prostate cancer. - Associate Investigator. 

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Co-Supervisor Personalized Dietary Management and Machine Learning Optimization: Strategies for Improving Glucose Metabolism in Individuals at Risk of Diabetes Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Yilin Tong
    2024 Co-Supervisor Interactions between sleep, circadian rhythm, dysglycaemia and sex steroids Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Alebachew Fasil Ashagre
    2024 Co-Supervisor Promoting timely and effective engagement in healthcare by men Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Sam Tafari

  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2017 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Defining the Role of Lipids and Metabolic Factors as Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer Incidence and Aggressiveness Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Adel Aref

  • Other Supervision Activities
    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2018 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Predicting the Likelihood of Metastatic Disesae at the Time of Diagnosis in Prostate Cancer Univeristy of Adelaide - Honours Full Time Mrunal Hiwase
    2017 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Computational methodology - bayesian modelling The University of Adelaide Summer Vacation Research Program Other Full Time Mr Matthew Borg
    2015 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Multiple imputations on MAILES dataset The University of Adelaide Summer Vacation Research Program Other Full Time Ms Stella Rizo-Patron
    2014 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Health services research, biosataticics The University of Adelaide Summer research vacation program Other Full Time Ms Phoebe Drioli-Phillipis and Ms Jana Le

  • Mentoring
    Date Topic Location Name
    2017 - 2018 Advanced statistics programming using R The University of Adelaide Dr Matthew Borg
  • Position: Grant-Funded Researcher (C)
  • Phone: 83131216
  • Email: andrew.vincent@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83131228
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences, floor 6
  • Org Unit: Medical Specialties
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