Rate My Professor Sofia Dias

Professor Dias is a member of NICE Technology Appraisals Committee D and has collaborated with the NICE Decision Support Unit to produce technical support documents that guide evidence submission and critique in NICE Technology Appraisals. She is lead author of the Wiley book Network Meta-analysis for Decision Making. Her key publications include 'On weakly informative prior distributions for the heterogeneity parameter in Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis' (2021, Research Synthesis Methods), 'Joining the Dots: Linking Disconnected Networks of Evidence Using Dose-Response, Model-Based Network Meta-analysis (MBNMA)' (2021, Medical Decision Making), and 'Exploring Heterogeneity in Histology-Independent Technologies and the Implications for Cost-Effectiveness' (2021, Medical Decision Making). She has delivered keynote lectures such as 'Evidence synthesis for decision-making: multiple treatments, multiple outcomes' (May 2021) and invited talks including 'Network meta-analysis for decision making: making best use of relevant evidence' (January 2024) and 'Evidence synthesis for decision making: making best use of relevant evidence' (December 2024).