I trained in medicine and later moved into biostatistics. So I can talk through both the clinical question and the numbers. Most of my clients are residents and junior faculty from King Abdulaziz University, Alfaisal, Taibah, and Jazan University.

The things students ask me about most:
– Choosing fixed or random effects, and the right effect size (OR, RR, MD, SMD)
– Running the analysis in R with meta and metafor, or in Stata or RevMan
– Forest plots and funnel plots that are actually readable in print
– Heterogeneity, subgroup and sensitivity analysis, and meta-regression
– Publication bias, using Egger’s test and trim-and-fill
– Network meta-analysis, league tables, and SUCRA
– GRADE summary of findings tables

I also set students up with knitr in Overleaf. Then if a reviewer asks you to drop one study, every number in the paper updates on its own.

Degrees:
– PhD Biostatistics

Experience:
I have 15 years of experience in meta-analysis. Saudi Board residents are a big part of my work, since many need a publication before they finish. Topics come up again and again: diabetes, vitamin D, obesity, sickle cell, periodontal disease. The first thing I do is recheck the extracted data. Honestly, that’s where most mistakes are, not in the statistics. Then I run the model and explain the output in plain words. If the forest plot has 30 studies, I redo it so the labels and weights don’t overlap. For network meta-analyses, there are extra tables reviewers expect, and I add those too. GRADE is usually the last step, and we go through each domain together.