Rhiannon Whitaker is a Chartered Statistician and Associate Scientific Director of NWORTH, Bangor's clinical trials unit.

She has a wide experience of designing, running and analysing multi-centred trials in a range of health related areas, particularly in dementia and mental health. She has, through her statistical and methodological support work in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, supported a wide range of researchers across many professional groups in developing research. She is a member of the NISCHR Advisory Panel for the Research for Patient and Public Benefit work stream, the UKCRC Registered CTU advisory board and acts as a peer reviewer for the NIHR. NWORTH, the Bangor Clinical Trials Unit, is a fully registered UKCRC Trials Unit (no.23) which receives core funding from NISCHR (http://www.bangor.ac.uk/imscar/nworth). The staff of NWORTH includes trial and data managers, statisticians, a quality assurance professional, IT specialists and administrators, with close links with other related professionals such as outcomes specialists