Management
Emma Coady
Senior Clinical Project Manager
Emma joined ADVANCE in August 2019 as senior clinical project manager. She has worked as a research nurse and a senior clinical project manager within a wide range of commercial, academic, hospital and community-based clinical settings. She previously worked as a clinical project manager at Imperial College London and UCL on the Southall and Brent cohort (SABRE) – the largest tri-ethnic population-based cohort in the UK. In her last role Emma worked for a US start-up company as the European clinical study manager for the CALM-2 study, which is investigating a device-based therapy used to treat drug-resistant hypertension. Within ADVANCE Emma has oversight of all aspects of the Study and is based between Stanford Hall and Imperial College London.
Tass White
Clinical Operations Lead
Tass joined the ADVANCE Study in November 2018 as part of the administration team. In March 2020 she took up the role of clinical administration lead within the clinical team where she is integrating the administration processes of ADVANCE into the clinical team’s activities. She is responsible for ensuring that the most effective and efficient administration systems are in place which will support the clinical team and ensure participants’ visits to Stanford Hall run smoothly.
Eleanor Miller
Senior Data Manager
Eleanor joined the ADVANCE team as senior data manager in July 2021. Her role involves overseeing the organisation, storage, and handling of all ADVANCE data. Eleanor completed her PhD in Population Genetics at the University of Cambridge in 2019. During this period her research primarily focused on demographic reconstructions of populations through time. She then worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge for two years, continuing to use computational methods to explore population dynamics of different species.
Jessica Valentine
Communications Manager
Jessica joined ADVANCE in September 2024. As the ADVANCE Communications Manager she is responsible for the ADVANCE website, internal communications and most importantly, communicating the stories and events from across the ADVANCE teams and participants.