Dalice Sim, Our people, University of Otago, Wellington, University of Otago, New Zealand

BA MPhil (1st Class) PhD
Senior Research Fellow & Biostatistician

I joined the University of Otago, Wellington as a Consulting Biostatistician in February, 2015. My background includes collaborating with cancer investigators (everything from cells to pet animals to people) at the Arizona Cancer Center and directing a Group running Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials at the University of Western Ontario. Between 2010 and 2014 I was the Statistical Consultant at Victoria University, Wellington.

As well as research on cancer, I have been involved in designing and analysing studies in stroke, multiple sclerosis, hypertension and organ transplantation. I am looking forward to working with researchers at the University of Otago, Wellington on research in clinical and epidemiological settings.

Contact details

University of Otago, Wellington
PO Box 7343 Wellington South
Email dalice.sim@otago.ac.nz
Tel 64 4 918-6113

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Publications

O'Rawe, M., Wickremesekera, A. C., Pandey, R., Young, D., Sim, D., FitzJohn, T., Burgess, C., … Tan, S. T. (2022). Treatment of glioblastoma with re-purposed renin-angiotensin system modulators: Results of a phase I clinical trial. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 95, 48-54. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2021.11.023

La Flamme, A. C., Abernathy, D., Sim, D., Goode, L., Lockhart, M., Bourke, D., … Joshi, P., Watson, E., Smyth, D., Lance, S., & Connor, B. (2020). Safety and acceptability of clozapine and risperidone in progressive multiple sclerosis: A phase I, randomised, blinded, placebo-controlled trial. BMJ Neurology Open, 2(1), e000060. doi: 10.1136/bmjno-2020-000060

Kilmister, E. J., Patel, J., van Schaijik, B., Bockett, N., Brasch, H. D., Paterson, E., & Sim, D. (2020). Cancer stem cell subpopulations are present within metastatic head and neck cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Frontiers in Oncology, 10, 1091. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.01091

Ball, J., Edwards, R., Sim, D., Cook, H., & Denny, S. (2020). What explains the decline in adolescent binge-drinking in New Zealand? International Journal of Drug Policy, 84, 102826. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102826

Dungey, G., Neser, H., & Sim, D. (2020). New Zealand radiation therapists' perceptions of peer group supervision as a tool to reduce burnout symptoms in the clinical setting. Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 67, 225-232. doi: 10.1002/jmrs.398

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Elder, D., McDowall, P., Sim, D., & Campbell, A. (2020). Sleep in New Zealand children aged 7-9: Associations with ethnicity, socioeconomic status and achievement in reading and mathematics. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 16(6), 847-854. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.8342

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Soulié, T., Bell, E., Jenkin, G., Sim, D., & Collings, S. (2020). Systematic exploration of countertransference phenomena in the treatment of patients at risk for suicide. Archives of Suicide Research, 24(1), 96-118. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2018.1506844

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Whitley, C. E., Rose, S. B., Sim, D., & Cook, H. (2020). Association between women's use of long-acting reversible contraception and declining abortion rates in New Zealand. Journal of Women's Health, 29(1), 21-28. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2018.7632

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Yoganandarajah, V., Patel, J., van Schaijik, B., Bockett, N., Brasch, H. D., Paterson, E., Sim, D., … Tan, S. T. (2020). Identification of cancer stem cell subpopulations in head and neck metastatic malignant melanoma. Cells, 9(2), 324. doi: 10.3390/cells9020324

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Ball, J., Sim, D., & Edwards, R. (2019). Addressing ethnic disparities in adolescent smoking: Is reducing exposure to smoking in the home a key? Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 21(4), 430-438. doi: 10.1093/ntr/nty053

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Ball, J., Sim, D., Edwards, R., Fleming, T., Denny, S., Cook, H., & Clark, T. (2019). Declining adolescent cannabis use occurred across all demographic groups and was accompanied by declining use of other psychoactive drugs, New Zealand, 2001-2012. New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1500), 12-24. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

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Benham, H., Rutherford, M., Kirby, S., Stebbings, S., White, D., Sim, D., & Harrison, A. (2019). Treat-to-target in rheumatoid arthritis: Evaluating the patient perspective using the Patient Opinion Real-Time Anonymous Liaison system: The RA T2T PORTAL study. International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases, 22, 874-879. doi: 10.1111/1756-185x.13514

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Cordery, C., & Sim, D. (2019). Regulatory reform: Distinguishing between mutual-benefit and public-benefit entities. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 31(3), 431-450. doi: 10.1108/JPBAFM-12-2018-0148

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Weerasekera, K., Sim, D., Coughlan, F., & Inns, S. (2019). Eosinophilic esophagitis incidence in New Zealand: High but not increasing. Clinical & Experimental Gastroenterology, 12, 367-374. doi: 10.2147/ceg.S216126

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Ball, J., Sim, D., & Edwards, R. (2018). Why has adolescent smoking declined dramatically? Trend analysis using repeat cross-sectional data from New Zealand 2002-2015. BMJ Open, 8(10), e020320. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020320

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Cordery, C. J., & Sim, D. (2018). Dominant stakeholders, activity and accountability discharge in the CSO sector. Financial Accountability & Management, 34(1), 77-96. doi: 10.1111/faam.12144

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Delahunt, J. W., Denison, H. J., Sim, D. A., Bullock, J. J., & Krebs, J. D. (2018). Increasing rates of people identifying as transgender presenting to Endocrine Services in the Wellington region. New Zealand Medical Journal, 131(1468), 33-42. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

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Inns, S., Wong, J., McPhedran, D., De Guzman, G., Broome, K., Sim, D., & Sandford, R. (2018). Agreement of triage decisions between gastroenterologists and nurses in a hospital endoscopy unit. Clinical & Experimental Gastroenterology, 11, 399-403. doi: 10.2147/ceg.S159516

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Cordery, C. J., Sim, D., & van Zijl, T. (2017). Differentiated regulation: The case of charities. Accounting & Finance, 57(1), 131-164. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12131

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Marriott, L., & Sim, D. (2017). Tax evasion and welfare fraud: Do punishments fit the crime or the perception of the crime? Pacific Accounting Review, 29(4), 573-589. doi: 10.1108/PAR-10-2016-0094

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McMeeking, K., Baskerville, R., & Sim, D. (2017). Partnership law and its spawn: Did LLP deliver on its promises? Change Management, 17, 19-32.

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Mishra, S., Sim, D., & Flanagan, P. (2017). Haemochromatosis: Evaluating the effectiveness of a novel patient self-management approach to venesection as blood donation. New Zealand Medical Journal, 130(1457), 26-33. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

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Myers, J. A., Powell, D. M. C., Aldington, S., Sim, D., Psirides, A., Hathaway, K., & Haney, M. F. (2017). The impact of fatigue on the non-technical skills performance of critical care air ambulance clinicians. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 61(10), 1305-1313. doi: 10.1111/aas.12994

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O'Sullivan, K. C., Howden-Chapman, P., Sim, D., Stanley, J., Rowan, R. L., Harris Clark, I. K., … the Waiopehu College 2015 Research Team. (2017). Cool? Young people investigate living in cold housing and fuel poverty: A mixed methods action research study. SSM Population Health, 3, 66-74. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.12.006

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Plimmer, G., Proctor-Thomson, S., Donnelly, N., & Sim, D. (2017). The mistreatment of public service workers: Identifying key risk and protective factors. Public Money & Management, 37(5), 333-340. doi: 10.1080/09540962.2017.1328186

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Webster, G. A., Sim, D. A., La Flamme, A. C., & Mayo, N. E. (2017). Evaluation of neurological changes in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis patients treated with immune modulator MIS416: Results from a feasibility study. Pilot & Feasibility Studies, 3, 60. doi: 10.1186/s40814-017-0201-4

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Marriott, L., & Sim, D. (2016). Comparisons of tax evasion and welfare fraud: How well does policy in Australia and New Zealand reflect public attitudes to these crimes? Journal of Australian Taxation, 1-22.

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Chakraborty, M., Hickey, A. J. R., Petrov, M. S., MacDonald, J. R., Thompson, N., Newby, L., Sim, D., … Phillips, A. R. J. (2015). Mitochondrial dysfunction in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in early experimental and clinical acute pancreatitis. Pancreatology, 16(5), 739-747. doi: 10.1016/j.pan.2016.06.659

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Cooling, M., Sim, D. A., & Lester, P. J. (2015). Density-dependent effects of an invasive ant on a ground-dwelling arthropod community. Environmental Entomology, 44(1), 44-53. doi: 10.1093/ee/nvu008

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Marriott, L., & Sim, D. (2015). Indicators of inequality for Māori and Pacific people. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 20, 24-50.

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Cordery, C. J., & Sim, D. (2014). Cash or accrual: What basis for small and medium-sized charities' accounting? Third Sector Review, 20(2), 79-105.

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Das, V., Sim, D. A., & Miller, J. H. (2014). Effect of taxoid and nontaxoid site microtubule-stabilizing agents on axonal transport of mitochondria in untransfected and ECFP-htau40-transfected rat cortical neurons in culture. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 92, 1155-1166. doi: 10.1002/jnr.23394

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Rajanahally, M. A., Sim, D., Ryan, K. G., & Convey, P. (2014). Can bottom ice algae tolerate irradiance and temperature changes? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology, 461, 516-527. doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2014.10.005

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Steel, R. W. J., Miller, J. H., Sim, D. A., & Day, D. J. (2014). Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol disrupts hippocampal neuroplasticity and neurogenesis in trained, but not untrained adolescent Sprague-Dawley rats. Brain Research, 1548, 12-19. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.12.034

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Williams, M., Tennyson, A. J. D., & Sim, D. (2014). Island differentiation of New Zealand's extinct mergansers (Anatidae: Mergini), with description of a new species from Chatham Island. Wildfowl, 64, 3-34.

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Wilson, G., Desai, A. A., Sim, D. A., Gruber, M. A. M., & Lester, P. J. (2014). The association between invasive Lantana camara and seedlings/saplings of a plant community in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 30, 551-563. doi: 10.1017/S026646741400039X

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Bull, L. S., Fuller, S., & Sim, D. (2013). Post-construction avian mortality monitoring at Project West Wind. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 40(1), 28-46. doi: 10.1080/03014223.2012.757242

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Cordery, C. J., Sim, D., & Baskerville, R. F. (2013). Three models, one goal: Assessing financial vulnerability in New Zealand amateur sports clubs. Sport Management Review, 16(2), 186-199. doi: 10.1016/j.smr.2012.08.002

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Wilson, G., Desai, A. A., Sim, D. A., & Linklater, W. L. (2013). The influence of the invasive weed Lantana camara on elephant habitat use in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, southern India. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 29(3), 199-207. doi: 10.1017/S0266467413000205

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Cooling, M., Hartley, S., Sim, D. A., & Lester, P. J. (2012). The widespread collapse of an invasive species: Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) in New Zealand. Biology Letters, 8, 430-433. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1014

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Knott, C. I., Psirides, A. J., Young, P. J., & Sim, D. (2011). A retrospective cohort study of the effect of medical emergency teams on documentation of advance care directives. Critical Care & Resuscitation, 13(3), 167-174.

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Filoche, S., Cram, F., Beard, A., Sim, D., Geller, S., Edmonds, L., Robson, B., & Lawton, B. (2018). He Tamariki Kokoti Tau-Tackling preterm: A data-linkage methodology to explore the clinical care pathway in preterm deliveries. BMC Health Services Research, 18, 374. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3179-6

Journal - Research Other

Edwards, R., Sim, D., Ball, J., Hoek, J., Beaglehole, R., & Waa, A. (2017). Surveys show exposure to smoking in cars among Year 10 children is not decreasing: Time for the Government to act. New Zealand Medical Journal, 130(1458), 56-58. Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

Journal - Research Other

Jaine, R., Edwards, R., Ball, J., Sim, D., Thomson, G., & Beaglehole, R. (2017). Overwhelming support for smokefree cars that are carrying children: Is the Government listening? New Zealand Medical Journal, 130(1465), 104-106. Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

Journal - Research Other

Lucas, N., Humble, M., Sim, D., Balm, M., Carter, J., & Weinkove, R. (2017). Temporal changes in neutropenic blood culture isolates and disease associations: A single centre series of 1139 episodes [Short communication]. Internal Medicine Journal, 47(8), 962-965. doi: 10.1111/imj.13509

Journal - Research Other

Thomas, G. C., Kim, B., Beattie, G. J., Shelton, R. H., & Sim, D. A. (2013). Lessons from the performance of houses in the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence of 2010-11. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Technical Conference and AGM. Retrieved from http://www.nzsee.org.nz/db/2013/Contents.htm

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Miller, J., McDowall, P., Sim, D., Elder, D., & Campbell, A. (2019). Bedtime routine in NZ children aged 7-10: Differences related to ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Journal of Sleep Research, 28(Suppl. 1), P070. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12911

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Su, H., Chen, A., Brown, S., Alcantara, J., Sim, D., Myint, H., … Inns, S. (2019). Body image dissatisfaction is increased in inflammatory bowel disease compared with healthy matched controls but not diseased controls. Journal of Crohn's & Colitis, 13(Suppl. 1), (pp. S376). doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjy222.651

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Ball, J., Sim, D., Edwards, R., & Waa, A. (2018). Exposure to smoking in the home: A key to reducing ethnic disparities in smoking among adolescents? Proceedings of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) 24th Annual Meeting. (pp. 299). Retrieved from http://www.srnt.org/

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

La Flamme, A. C., Abernethy, D., Sim, D., Goode, L., Bourke, D., Milner, I., … Connor, B. (2018). Crisp: Clozapine and Risperidone for the Treatment of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis, 24(Suppl. 1), (pp. 25). doi: 10.1177/1352458517750967

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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