Dr Freda Werdiger

Dr Freda Werdiger is a Biostatistics and Brain Imaging Research Fellow with the Melbourne Medical School. Freda holds a BSc in Computational Mathematics and Physics and a PhD in Physics specialising in physical optics and x-ray optics from Monash University. Her research career spans the basic, pre-clinical and clinical sciences, collaborating with a wide variety of international clinical research teams throughout. Freda worked for three years (2016-2019) in the Laboratory of Dynamic Imaging at Monash University developing lightweight functional imaging systems for the early detection and monitoring of lung disease including fibrosis, cancer and ventilator-induced lung injury, and developing novel methods for analysing and quantifying disease pathophysiology from imaging data. Since 2019, Freda has worked as a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Brain Centre, first developing AI-tools for the automatic detection of stroke from CT and MR imaging and then as a Biostatistician, in the design and implementation of Clinical Trials for stroke research and other applications.  Currently, her main area of focus is adaptive platform trials, and has developed a platform for designing and analysing confidence-based clinical trials, a novel frequentist approach novel to platform trials.