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Appendix A: Biographies of Workshop Speakers
Appendix A: Biographies of Workshop Speakers
Pages 85-100
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In 2007, he was the senior author of a study demonstrating that care in Medicare is highly fragmented, with the average beneficiary seeing multiple primary care physicians and specialists. His work in lung cancer epidemiology has focused on the development and utilization of lung cancer prediction models that can be used to determine what lung cancer events that populations of elderly smokers will experience over a period of time.
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, and the Bernie O'Brien New Investigator Award (2009) from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, the Alan Williams Health Economics Fellowship (2008)
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She is the principal investigator of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Small Changes and Lasting Effects, a randomized trial aimed to reduce weight among overweight/obese Black and Latino adults living primarily in Harlem and the South Bronx, through small changes in eating behavior and physical activity. She is co–principal investigator of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities' Center for Excellence in Health Disparities Research and Community Engagement, which conducts health disparities research.
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His work at the National Cancer Institute included studies on the motility of cells in tissue culture; clinical trials of lung cancer treatments and preventive interventions for gastric cancer; and assessment of cancer biomarkers, AIDS epidemiology, and models to project the risk of breast cancer.
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He is an editor of the journal Statistics in Medicine and is a past editor of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics' Lecture Notes and Monograph Series. His research interests include methods for the analysis of data from longitudinal and observational studies and methods for clinical trials.
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where science and clinical medicine were connected effortlessly. These experiences as a resident unleashed a deep interest in clinical research training that he pursued as a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale under the direction of Alvan R
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Prior federally funded work involving IPD metaanalysis includes predictive modeling to balance patient-specific risks and benefits for thrombolytics in acute stroke, a project that pooled data from 6 clinical trials, and for coronary reperfusion therapy, which combined 10 databases.
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Following internal medical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, he completed a clinical fellowship in cardiology at the Boston Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. His further training in epidemiology included a research fellowship at the NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Boston University; the program in clinical effectiveness, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University; and the Program for Physician Educators, Harvard Macy Institute.
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Her research interests include the use of statistics in evidence-based medicine, particularly meta-analysis. She serves as a statistical expert for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Methodology Committee and as an evidence synthesis expert for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-Based Practice Centers.
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She has been a program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program and director of the San Antonio Cochrane Collaboration Center and the San Antonio Evidence-Based Practice Center. She was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 1997, honored as a master of the American College of Physicians in 2005, and elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2008.
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. He is principal investigator of the BWH DEcIDE Research Center on Comparative Effectiveness Research and the DEcIDE Methods Center, both funded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and director of the Harvard-Brigham Drug Safety Research Center, funded by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S.
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In 2005, Ms. Slutsky implemented a comparative-effectiveness research program that includes evidence synthesis, evidence gap analysis, evidence generation, and evidence translation and implementation.
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Committee to Set Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research. He was president of the American College of Physicians.
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Dr. Weintraub has also worked on multiple randomized clinical trials.
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He is a past president of the Society for Medical Decision Making, the statistical editor in decision and cost-effectiveness analysis for the Annals of Internal Medicine at the American College of Physicians, co-director of the Tufts Evidence-Based Practice Center, and co-chair of the Methods Workgroup of the National Clinical Translational Sciences Award Strategic Goal Committee on Comparative Effectiveness Research. In addition to serving on study sections for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institutes of Health, Dr.
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