Michelle Goonasekera is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Clinical Trials Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) at Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford and an honorary consultant nephrologist at the Oxford Kidney Unit. She completed her Renal and Internal Medicine specialist training in Oxford.
She works on large randomised trials in cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and diabetes, aiming to test interventions that prevent and treat common causes of death and disability with a particular interest in treatments aimed at reducing progression of chronic kidney disease.
She has a keen interest in developing novel methods of using health systems data to streamline large randomised trials and was awarded an MD for work undertaken at CTSU (2020-2023) assessing the validity of health systems data for ascertainment of heart failure outcomes in the ASCEND trial of >15,000 participants with diabetes. She is the Oxford Lead for the Health Data Research UK Transforming Data for Trials Programme.
