New Year Honours 2009
Professor Deborah ASHBY OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
statistician
Organisation: Imperial College London
“Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Imperial College London. For services to Medicine.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Imperial College London. For services to Medicine.
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New Year Honours 2009- Role at the time
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“Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Imperial College London. For services to Medicine.”
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The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 232 times in the New Year Honours List 2009 — about 24% of the list.
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141 Officer of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Essex.
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statistician, Imperial College London.
How widely is this recognised?
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2009
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2009). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2008.
Location (Essex) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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