• Head of Trials

• jennifer.rendell@psych.ox.ac.uk
• +44 (0)1865 226465
• Department of Psychiatry
  University of Oxford
  Warneford Hospital
  Oxford
  OX3 7JX

• Randomized clinical trials – BALANCE, BALANCE  2 and PRE-EMPT
• Research into recruitment to randomized clinical trials
• Systematic reviews

• Liaw T, Lawrence MST, & Rendell JM, The effect of a computer-generated patient-held medical record summary and/or a written personal health record on patients attitudes, knowledge and behaviour concerning health promotion. Family Practice 1996, Vol. 13(3) 289-293. PMID: 8671137 PubMed
• Shek FW, Stacey BSF, Rendell JM, Hellier MD, & Hanson PJV. "The rise of Clostridium difficile: the effect of length of stay, patient age and antibiotic use." Journal of Hospital Infection 2000, Vol. 45 (3) 235-237. PMID: 10896804 PubMed
• Geddes JR, Rendell JM, and Goodwin GM., for the BALANCE Investigators, (2002) BALANCE: a large simple trial of maintenance treatment for bipolar disorder. World Psychiatry, 2002. 1 (1) 48 – 51 External Link
• Rendell JM, Juszczak E, Hainsworth J, Van der Gucht E, Healey C, Morriss R, Ferrier N, Young AH, Young H, Goodwin GM, Geddes JR: Developing the BALANCE trial - the role of the pilot study and start-up phase. Bipolar Disorders 2004; 6(1): 26-31. PMID: 14996138 PubMed
• Gijsman HJ, Geddes JR, Rendell JM, Nolen WA, Goodwin GM Antidepressants for Bipolar Disorder: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. American Journal of Psychiatry (2004) 161:1537-1547 PMID: 15337640 PubMed
• Bhagwagar Z, Hinz R, Taylor M, Fancy S, Cowen PJ, Grasby PM. Increased 5-HT2A receptor binding in euthymic, medication free recovered depressed patients: a positron emission study with [11C]MDL100907. American Journal of Psychiatry [In Press].
• Bopp JM, Miklowitz DJ, Goodwin GM, Stevens W, Rendell JM, Geddes JR.  The longitudinal course of bipolar disorder as revealed through weekly text messaging: a feasibility study. Bipolar Disord 2010 12: 327–334 PMID: 2921773 PubMed
• Geddes JR, Goodwin GM, Rendell J, Azorin JM, Ostacher MJ, Morriss R, Alder N,
  Juszczak E for the BALANCE investigators and collaborators.  Lithium plus valproate combination therapy versus monotherapy for relapse prevention in bipolar I disorder (BALANCE): a randomised open-label trial.  Lancet  2010 375: 385-395 PMID: 20092882 PubMed

Cochrane Reviews & Protocols

• Rendell JM, Gijsman HJ, Keck P, Goodwin GM, Geddes JR. Olanzapine alone or in combination for acute mania. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2003, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD004040. Wiley
• Gijsman HJ, Rendell J, Geddes J, Nolen WA, Goodwin GM. Antidepressants for bipolar depression. (Protocol) The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD002793. Wiley
• Gijsman HJ, Geddes JR, Rendell JM, Ostacher MJ, Goodwin GM. Chlorpromazine for mania. (Protocol) The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD004781. Wiley
• Cipriani A, Rendell JM, Geddes JR.  Haloperidol alone or in combination for acute mania.  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006 Issue 3 CD 004362  Art. No.: CD004362.pub2. Wiley
• Rendell JM, Geddes JR.  Risperidone in long-term treatment for bipolar disorder.  Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006 Issue 4 CD 004999 Art. No.: CD004999.pub2. Wiley
• Rendell JM, Gijsman HJ, Bauer MS, Goodwin GM, Geddes JR. Risperidone alone or in combination for acute mania. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD004043. Wiley
• Rendell JM, Merritt RK, Geddes JR.  Incentives and disincentives to participation by clinicians in randomised controlled trials.  Cochrane Database Syst Rev  2007 Issue 2 CD MR000021 Art. No.: MR000021.pub3. Wiley
• Cipriani A, Rendell JR, Geddes JR.  Olanzapine in the long-term treatment for bipolar disorder. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2009 Issue: 1 CD004367 Art. No.: CD004367.pub2. Wiley