Prof. Jim Chilcott is a Professor of Healthcare Decision Modelling at the School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield. He gained his Mathematics degree from the University of Manchester in 1985 and his MSc in Operational Research from Strathclyde in 1986. For 10 years following the MSc, he worked in Operational Research consultancy, giving practical decision support right across the health sector from hospitals to departments, in addition to the mining, banking, and education sectors. He joined ScHARR in 1996 to focus on healthcare decision support. From 2002 to 2008 he was the Technical Director of the ScHARR Technology Assessment Group, responsible for the scientific quality of the group's work for the NICE Technology Appraisals Programme. He is a founding member and Technical Director of the Public Health Collaborating Centre at ScHARR. His research interests include modelling in public health, modelling in cancer and cancer screening, and methodological modelling.