Dr Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi MBChB, PhD

Dr Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Associate Professor

Contact details

Address
Centre for Patient-Reported Outcome Research (CPROR)
Murray Learning Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Lee is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director, at the Centre for Patient-Reported Outcome Research (CPROR), Department of Applied Health Sciences. His research focuses on the optimisation of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) assessments for clinical research, routine clinical practice, and regulatory purposes.

Lee is the Lead for WP2 of the £12 million LifeArc Centre for Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials leading and co-ordinating the PRO research across the University of Birmingham, Newcastle University and Queen’s University Belfast.

Lee is a Co-Lead for the PRO themes of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre BirminghamApplied Research Collaboration West Midlands. He is also the Co-Lead for the PRO theme of the MRC-Trial Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP) Outcomes working group.

Lee is also the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Lead for 3 projects. He is Principal Investigator and a co-investigator for over 25 grants with a total grant income of over £10 million. He has published over 100 articles with several first author publications in The Lancet, Nature Medicine, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, and Nature Communications.

Lee has received several invitations as guest speaker and subject expert including an invitation to a roundtable to discuss Long COVID which was convened by the office of the Chief Science Advisor Task Force in Canada. He is currently a Guest Editor for Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (JPRO) curating a special issue on PPIE.

Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK 2022
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE), University of Birmingham, UK 2022
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Birmingham, 2019
  • Masters in Public Health (MPH), University of Birmingham, 2014
  • Masters in Business Administration (MBA), University of Cardiff, 2009
  • Medicine (MBChB), Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, 2007

Teaching

Lee is currently a tutor on the Selection, Collection and Reporting of Outcomes Module of the MSc Clinical Trials programme. He serves as a small group tutor on Year 1 and 2, undergraduate MBChB modules within the College of Medicine and Health. In addition, he supervises undergraduate MBChB projects (HIER & PIP) and PhD students. Lee is a supervisor and marker for the MPH dissertation, and a personal academic tutor (PAT) for the MPH programme. He is the CMH Representative on the Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi) Board of Examiners.

Other activities

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Consensus group, Gagnier, JJ, Tavares de Arruda, G, Terwee, CB & Mokkink, LB 2025, 'COSMIN reporting guideline for studies on measurement properties of patient‑reported outcome measures: version 2.0', Quality of life research: an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-025-03950-x

Kyte, D, Fletcher, B, Horton, M, Damery, S, Aiyegbusi, OL, Anderson, N, Bissell, A, Calvert, M, Cockwell, P, Ferguson, J, Paap, MCS, Sidey-Gibbons, C, Turner, N, Verdi, R & Slade, A 2025, 'Development, Rasch Analysis and Validation of the Kidney Symptom Burden Questionnaire (KSB-Q)', Clinical Kidney Journal.

Unni, E, Schougaard, LMV, Aiyegbusi, OL, Mate, KKV, Austin, E, Greffin, K, Roberts, N, Grove, BE, Muehlan, H & ISOQOL Clinical practice SIG PROs in Telehealth Working Group 2025, 'Expert Consensus on Implementing Patient-Reported Outcomes in Telehealth: Findings from an International Delphi Study', Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes.

Jones, L, Delicate, A, Waigwa, S, Hodgetts Morton, V, Morris, RK, Whitehurst, J, Hillman, S & Chapter Collaborative Group 2025, 'Exploring views and experiences of childbirth-related perineal trauma: a qualitative study protocol for developing a wound management tool and care pathway', BMJ open, vol. 15, no. 4, e088248. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088248

Thomassen, D, Roychoudhury, S, Amdal, CD, Reynders, D, Musoro, JZ, Sauerbrei, W, Goetghebeur, E, Le Cessie, S & SISAQOL-IMI Work Package 3 2025, 'Handling missing values in patient-reported outcome data in the presence of intercurrent events', BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 25, 56. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02510-8

McMullan, C, Haroon, S, Turner, G, Aiyegbusi, OL, Hughes, SE, Flanagan, S, Subramanian, A, Nirantharakumar, K, Davies, EH, Frost, C, Jackson, L, Guan, N, Alder, Y, Chong, A, Buckland, L, Jeyes, F, Stanton, DE & Calvert, M 2025, 'Mixed methods study of views and experience of non-hospitalised individuals with long COVID of using pacing interventions', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 14467. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-96319-6

Grumitt, G, Man, R, Vance, JL, Turner, A, Morris, RK, Morton, VH & CHAPTER Group 2025, 'Outcomes of suture material, suture technique and tissue adhesives for repair of childbirth-related perineal trauma: A systematic review and meta-analysis', European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, vol. 312, 114086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2025.114086

McMullan, C, Calvert, M, Hughes, S, Pyatt, L, Kern, B, Shaw, K, Asfaw, B, Besley, C, Buckingham, N, Ellis, H, Farrow, C, Mazza, M, Miller, R, Irvine, D, Jones, C, John, E, Sheikh, Y, Pugh, G, Yiallouridou, C & Aiyegbusi, OL 2025, 'Patient and caregiver experiences of CAR T-cell therapy for blood cancer in the UK: a qualitative study', The Patient - Patient-Centred Outcomes Research.

Anderson, N, Hughes, S, Aiyegbusi, OL, Collis, P, Miller, R & Calvert, M 2025, 'Patient-reported outcomes in integrated care: a frontier of opportunities and challenges', International Journal of Integrated Care.

Cruz Rivera, S, Buxhoeveden, S, Aiyegbusi, OL, Bozinov, N, Kamudoni, P, McBurney, R & Calvert, M 2025, 'The importance of patient-reported outcomes: a call for their integration in the routine care of patients with multiple sclerosis', Multiple Sclerosis. https://doi.org/10.1177/13524585251349354

Baddeley, E, Sivell, S, Retzer, A, Nelson, A, Bulbeck, H, Seddon, K, Grant, R, Adams, R, Watts, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Calvert, M & Byrne, A 2025, 'Wellbeing and coping: key aspects of unmet need of people living with glioma', Neuro-Oncology Practice. https://doi.org/10.1093/nop/npae127

Nikolovski, J, Morton, RL, Mercieca-Bebber, R, Armstrong, M, Hartas, G, Rossiter, B, Fagan, M, Tinsley, M, Snyder, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Amin-Korim, R, Sutherland, K & Rutherford, C 2024, 'Acceptability and timing considerations when administering patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) among people with chronic health conditions who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD): a qualitative study protocol', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 9, e083346. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083346

Yap, C, Aiyegbusi, OL, Alger, E, Basch, E, Bell, J, Bhatnagar, V, Cella, D, Collis, P, Dueck, AC, Gilbert, A, Gnanasakthy, A, Greystoke, A, Hansen, AR, Kamudoni, P, Kholmanskikh, O, King-Kallimanis, BL, Krumholz, H, Minchom, A, O'Connor, D, Petrie, J, Piccinin, C, Rantell, KR, Rauz, S, Retzer, A, Rizk, S, Wagner, L, Sasseville, M, Seymour, LK, Weber, HA, Wilson, R, Calvert, M & Peipert, D 2024, 'Advancing Patient-Centric Care: Integrating Patient Reported Outcomes for Tolerability Assessment in Early Phase Clinical Trials – Insights from an Expert Virtual Roundtable', EClinicalMedicine, vol. 76, 102838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102838

CHAPTER Group, Hodgetts Morton, V, Man, R, Perry, R, Hughes, T, Tohill, S, MacArthur, C, Magill, L & Morris, RK 2024, 'Childbirth Acquired Perineal Trauma study (CHAPTER): a UK prospective cohort study protocol', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 5, e086724. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086724

Chapter

Peipert, D, Calvert, M & Aiyegbusi, OL 2025, Patient-centric treatment tolerability: Past, present and future. in M Reaney (ed.), Patient-centricity in the Biopharmaceutical Industry: Are We Nearly There Yet? A collection of perspectives from researchers, approvers and patients. IQVIA, pp. 62-69. <https://secure.constellation.iqvia.com/PCbook>

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