Tony Greenfield
BSc PhD CStat

Profile

Professor Tony Greenfield was formerly head of process computing and statistics at the British Iron and Steel Research Association, Sheffield, and professor of medical computing and statistics at Queen's University, Belfast. He is now one of the visiting professors to the Industrial Statistics Research Unit (ISRU), the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is past President of European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS).

Recent Activities

Member of the Parliamentary and Scientific committee - 1992 to 1996 (representing Royal Statistical Society)

Chairman of the board of governors of Willian School, Letchworth

Presenting courses to industrial companies and at City University London

(design and analysis of industrial experiments and on robust engineering design)

Assisting with teaching first year medical undergraduates at Sheffield University (Evidence based medicine)

External examiner - Newcastle University (industrial quality)

Supervisor and adviser for various postgraduate research students

Visiting professor to Newcastle University (2002 to present)

Qualifications

PhD - 'The automatic design of experiments’

BSc (Statistics)

Chartered Statistician - Royal Statistical Society

Diploma in Mathematics (Teaching) - Mathematical Association

Diploma in Journalism - Regent Street Polytechnic

Employment and Experience

Industrial research consultant

Queen’s University of Belfast - Professor of Medical Computing and Statistics

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sheffield

Corporate Laboratories (formerly BISRA) of the British Steel Corporation - Manager, process computing and statistics

Technical journalist  - Gas Journal, Quarry Managers Journal, Sheffield Telegraph, Sunday Express, Sunday Mirror

Societies

Royal Statistical Society

Fellow
Vice president 1977/78
Chambers gold medallist 1977
Chairman, Industrial applications section
Chairman, Sheffield group 1971/79
Chairman, Journals committee
Chairman, Applied Statistics board
Editor, RSS NEWS
Co-ordinator several conferences
Chairman, Quality improvement committee

Institute of Statisticians
(now merged with RSS)

Fellow
Managing director, IoS Consultants Ltd

Royal Society of Arts

Life Fellow

ENBIS
(European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics)

Member
President 2002/03

Presented papers (a selection)

Computational techniques as an aid in physical metallurgy

ISI conference, Leeds 1971

A statistical approach to oxygen steelmaking

International Steelmakers’ Conference,  Amsterdam, 1973

Discriminant analysis as a diagnostic aid

IEEE conference on ‘Computers for analysis and control in medical and biological research’ 1974

Iterative and sequential methods for sine wave fitting

Colloquium on ‘Methods of study of biological rhythms’, Manchester 1975

Training statistical consultants for the pharmaceutical industry

Seminar of ‘Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry’ 1979

Reproducibility in histopathology

Conference on ‘statistics in medicine’, Sheffield 1980

Simulation is a tool for improving NHS procedures

CQI and the NHS,  BMA,  October 1997

Published papers (a selection)

Technology to Pay for Tomorrow

New Scientist,  August 1970

Discriminant value of thyroid function tests (with Howlett and mith)

British Medical Journal,  April  1973

Metabolic profile study of patients receiving lithium carbonate (with Birch)

British Journal of Pharmacology  1974

Lithium therapy and alkaline earth metal metabolism (with irch)

Psychological Medicine  1977

British Steel’s Research Strategy

The Times,  January 16  1978

Computers and Health

Inaugural lecture,  Queen’s University, Belfast, 1980

The Road to Better Diagnosis

Proceedings of the Hospital Physicists Association and Biological Engineering Society, 1981

Laboratory data on ICU admissions (with Batchelor)

Anaesthesia, 1982

Introducing computers studies to an established medical curriculum

In ‘Meeting the Challenge: Informatics and Medical Education’ - North Holland 1983

The Medical Effects of the Seat Belt Legislation in the United Kingdom (with Rutherford)

DHSS report  1985

Biometric Review and Advice to the Government of Bolivia

ODA report 1988

Communicating Statistics

JRSS (A)  1993 part 2

Femoral neck and total body bone mineral density predict incident non-spine fractures  (with Greenfield DM and Eastell R)

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Cincinnati, September 1997

Books

Research Methods: Guidance for post-graduates

(Editor and co-author) - published by Edward Arnold (June 1996)

Research Methods: Guidance for post-graduates - Second edition

(June 2002)

The Pocket Statistician

(Co-author) - published by Edward Arnold (September 1996)

Software

WinDEX

(program for design and analysis of experiments)

MetaGen

(a package of programs for simulation of clinical trials)

Process Training

(simulators of industrial processors for teaching industrial statistics)