Danial Qureshi
BSc, MSc
DPhil Student
Danial joined the Translational Epidemiology Unit (TEU) in 2021 as a DPhil student in Population Health. Danial’s research aims to understand how poor metabolic health can impact your risk of developing dementia later in life, mainly using the UK Biobank, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive datasets. Danial is co-supervised by Dr. Thomas Littlejohns, Prof. Naomi Allen, and Dr. Elżbieta Kuźma. He is jointly funded by a Doctoral Research Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Institute of Aging), and a departmental scholarship from Oxford Population Health. Danial also holds a competitive Graduate Scholar award at St Catherine’s College.
Before joining Oxford, Danial worked as a Research Associate at the Bruyère Research Institute (BRI) in Canada. During this time, he helped lead numerous population-based health research studies using data held at ICES, including researched related to palliative and end-of-life care, long-term care, critical care, neurology and oncology.
Danial holds a BSc in Life Sciences (Honours) and a MSc in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University, Canada. To date, Danial has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed research publications in high impact journals such as The British Medical Journal. He has also won multiple teaching awards during his time as a teaching assistant at McMaster University.
Danial was also previously a member of the Oxford University Men's Basketball team.
Recent publications
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Palliative End-of-Life Medication Prescribing Rates in Long-Term Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
Journal article
Tanuseputro P. et al, (2024), Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 25, 532 - 538.e8
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Place of Death and Place of Care at the End of Life: Are They Correlated? A Retrospective Cohort Study of Ontario Decedents.
Journal article
Li W. et al, (2023), Journal of palliative medicine
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Long-Term Outcomes of Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Myocardial Infarction
Journal article
Sterling LH. et al, (2023), Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 82, 985 - 995
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Association between metabolic syndrome and risk of incident dementia in UK Biobank.
Journal article
Qureshi D. et al, (2023), Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
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Characteristics and Outcomes of ICU Patients Without COVID-19 Infection—Pandemic Versus Nonpandemic Times: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Journal article
Leafloor CW. et al, (2023), Critical Care Explorations, 5, e0888 - e0888