Executive Committee
The International Network for N-of-1 Trials and Single-Case Designs is led by an international Executive Committee representing expertise across medicine, psychology, statistics, digital health, rehabilitation, implementation science and consumer engagement. Together, the committee provides strategic leadership for the network while supporting collaboration, education, methodological development and the global advancement of personalised clinical studies.
Leadership
A/Prof Jane Nikles, Co-Chair 🇦🇺
Jane is a registered Medical Practitioner and clinical researcher at The University of Queensland. Jane has more than 20 years’ of experience in conducting N-of-1 trials and has published multiple papers that have contributed to the development of the field. She has an interest in improving the science of N-of-1 trials and exploring the applications of these trials to maximise patient health outcomes. Jane is also a Director of N-of-1 Hub.
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Suzanne is a clinical researcher at The University of Queensland and Senior Lecturer at Southern Cross University. Her research focuses on the development and application of N-of-1 trials and single-case designs in medicine and psychology. She has applied these methods across a range of clinical and behavioural health research areas, with a particular interest in chronic disease and health-related behaviours. ​Suzanne is also a Director of N-of-1 Hub.
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Executive Committee Members
Professor Nicholas J Schork 🇺🇸
Nicholas is Deputy Director and Distinguished Professor of Quantitative Medicine at The Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He has published over 550 articles in many areas of biomedical and translational science, including patient-oriented clinical trials design. He has a long history of collaborative and consortium-related research, including his current position as scientific director of the current NIH-funded Longevity Consortium, whose goals are to identify factors that contribute to human health and longevity.​
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Professor Patrick Onghena 🇧🇪
Patrick is a professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium. His background is in clinical psychology, research methodology, and statistics. His research interests include single-case experimental design and analysis, the methodology of systematic reviewing and meta-analysis, and research on statistics education. He is the author of numerous publications on the topic of single-case designs and an author of the handbook on Randomization Tests.
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Professor Robyn Tate 🇦🇺
Robyn is a Professor at the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research in the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. With a background in clinical and neuropsychology, she has extensive clinical experience in the rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury. Robyn co-directed the development of scales to assess methodological quality of single-case research (the SCED Scale and RoBiNT Scale), and led an international team in producing reporting guidelines for single-case experimental designs in the behavioural sciences (SCRIBE).
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A/Professor Harriëtte Riese 🇳🇱
Dr. Harriette is an Associate Professor researcher specializing in ambulatory psychological and physiological monitoring, with a focus on implementing innovative methods in mental health care. As director of the iLab group, she advances clinical research through the integration of Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA), such as experience sampling methods (ESM), into regular psychiatric care. Dr Riese leads pioneering studies like PETRA and Therap-i, targeting personalized, real-time mental health interventions.
Professor Johan Vlaeyen 🇧🇪
Professor Johan Vlaeyen is a Professor at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Maastricht University (the Netherlands). He has extensive experience applying single-case experimental designs to evaluate personalised cognitive behavioural interventions for people with chronic bodily symptoms and persistent pain. His research focuses on translating psychological science into effective, evidence-based clinical care.​
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A/Professor Rikard Wicksell 🇸🇪
Professor Rikard Wicksell is a clinical researcher and psychologist at Karolinska University Hospital, Associate Professor in Psychology, and Head of the Behavioural Medicine Research Group at Karolinska Institutet. He has extensive experience applying single-case experimental designs to evaluate psychological interventions, develop innovative outcome measures, and advance digital health approaches for personalised assessment and treatment of persistent pain and other long-term health conditions.​
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Professor James McGree 🇦🇺
Professor James McGree is the Discipline Leader for Statistics and Operations Research at Queensland University of Technology. He has extensive experience developing and applying statistical methods for N-of-1 trials, with expertise in Bayesian statistics, computational algorithms and clinical trial design. He is a contributed chapters on the statistical design and analysis of N-of-1 trials to the book The Essential Guide to N-of-1 Trials in Health.​
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Dr Laura Goetz 🇺🇸
Dr Laura Goetz is a physician specialising in preventive medicine and a researcher at HonorHealth Research Institute. She has extensive experience advancing precision health and applying N-of-1 approaches to personalise disease prevention and healthcare. She is also the founder of N-of-One Medicine and works to accelerate the translation of precision medicine into everyday clinical practice worldwide through innovation and collaboration.
Industry Representatives
Browning Rockwell 🇺🇸
Browning Rockwell's career spans a range of disciplines related to international business, project and technical management, and business development. He is an industry pioneer in Internet and eCommerce technology. He is currently creating and building WeWa.life, a consumer-facing health navigation platform. WeWa.life combines behavioral science, behavioral informatics, smartphone, and IoT technologies to provide better daily health & wellness decision making leading to a longer life. WeWa.life was a semi-finalist in a recent AHRQ Challenge.
