About
Lee is an accredited statistician and former president of the Statistical Society of Australia's Queensland branch. Her expertise spans many health areas, including cancer survivorship, medical, and nursing research. She has extensive experience modelling continuous and categorical data in health research, including clinical trials, large population studies, and biomarker studies. Over her career, she has secured $16 million in research funding, including seven category one grants (NHMRC, MRFF), five as Chief Investigator, and two as Associate Investigator. She has published over 60 papers in high-impact journals, with over 1,500 citations (Google Scholar). As a meta-researcher, she leads projects evaluating statistical quality and reproducibility in health and biomedical studies.
Research Skills
Statistical modelling, Survival analysis, Mixed models, Multivariate analysis, Factor analysis, Structural Equation Modelling, and Latent Class Modelling
Area of Interest
Meta-Research, Reproducibility, Statistical Quality, Cancer Care, Psychedelic Medicine, Homelessness
Professional Associations
- Treasurer, Queensland branch of Statistical Society Australia, 2021 - current
- Vice President, Queensland branch of Statistical Society Australia, 2018 - 2020
- President, Queensland branch of Statistical Society Australia, 2016 - 2017
- Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science, 2019 - current
Funding
- 2024 - 2028 MRFF After the Floods: Evaluating a Stepped Care Model to Treat Chronic Disaster-related PTSD. Role Associate Investigator.
- 2024 - 2027 NHMRC Targeting cytotoxic T cell fates in bone marrow/stem cell transplantation. Role Chief Investigator.
- 2023 - 2026 NHMRC Eliminating harm from devices across the life span in critical illness: The DEFENCE study. Role Chief Investigator.
- 2022 - 2026 NHMRC NAVICARE: Implementing, scaling up and sustaining a co-designed care navigation model to improve mental health service access in regional Australia. Role Associate Investigator.
- 2022 - 2026 NHMRC The GLOW Trial: implementing Guidelines for hypothermia prevention with Local adaptation to keep periOperative patients Warm. Role Chief Investigator.
- 2022 - 2027 MRFF Implementing a Nurse-Enabled, Shared-Care Model to Address Unmet Needs of People with Neuroendocrine Tumours: the AUS-NET Trial. Role Chief Investigator.
- 2021 - 2025 MRFF A hybrid, implementation-effectiveness trial of a nurse-enabled, shared-care Model between primary and acute care for prostate cancer Survivors (The MOSES Trial). Role Chief Investigator.
Publications
Jones, L., Barnett, A., & Vagenas, D. (2024). Common misconceptions held by health researchers when interpreting linear regression assumptions, a cross-sectional study. medRxiv, 2024.2002.2015.24302870. doi:10.1101/2024.02.15.24302870
Jones, L., Barnett, A., & Vagenas, D. (2024). Linear regression reporting practices for health researchers, a cross-sectional meta-research study. medRxiv, 2024.2005.2028.24308029. doi:10.1101/2024.05.28.24308029
Hunter, K. E., Tan, A. C., Webster, A. C., Hamilton, D. G., Barnett, A., Jones, L., . . . Seidler, A. L. (2023). Responsibilities for receiving and using individual participant data. Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, 1(9), e12028. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/cesm.12028