Division
of Clinical Decision Making, Informatics and Telemedicine
National Library of Medicine Fellowships in the Division of Clinical Decision Making
For the past 27 years, the Division of Clinical Decision
Making, Informatics, and Telemedicine at Tufts-New England Medical Center has
offered training in clinical informatics under the funding of the
National Library of Medicine. For the past decade, we have been a
component of the Boston
Combined Medical Informatics Training Program. We offer
training only to physicians under this program, most commonly
clinicians who have completed all or most of their specialty
training. Most trainees spend two or three years in the program,
participating in all aspects of the Division's activities. We are
looking for clinicians who have an interest in pursuing a career
in academic medicine and who have good analytic skills. We are
located at Tufts-New England Medical Center, the principal teaching
hospital for the Tufts University School of Medicine in downtown
Boston.
The fellowship consists of one to three years of postdoctoral
research training in clinical informatics, clinical decision
analysis, cost- effectiveness (especially pharmaco-economics) and
health policy analysis, guideline development, clinical decision
support, clinical cognition and clinical reasoning and telemedicine. Fellows
develop skills in computerized decision analysis in medical
decision making, including decision tree construction, Markov
model development, Monte Carlo simulation, Bayesian
interpretation of diagnostic tests, the measurement of patient
preferences, cost-effectiveness analysis, literature review, evidence-based
medicine and
meta-analysis. These skills enable fellows to pursue clinical research
questions examining the thorough and efficient evaluation of diagnostic
possibilities, the value or information content of the medical history, physical
examination and diagnostic tests, determination of the optimal diagnostic test
or test sequence, selection of the optimal therapy, and evaluation of new
medical technologies (tests, devices or drugs).
Fellows support a clinical decision making
consultation service which examines complex management dilemmas
in individual patients and provides advice in framing complex or
unusual problems, particular ones that strongly depend on
patients' preferences or where tradeoffs (e.g., length of life vs
quality of life). Recommendations are based on literature review
and formal decision analysis. Typical consults involve patients
with a clinical indication for anticoagulation but with risk
factors for bleeding complication or multiple co-morbidities
facing possible surgery. On a policy level, fellows also become
involved with health policy and cost-effectiveness analysis.
Previous such projects have ranged from coronary artery
revascularization, anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation or
prosthetic heart valves, postmenopausal hormone replacement
therapy, screening for cancer, treatment for hepatitis, and
prenatal genetic testing. There are numerous opportunities for
collaboration with other faculty such as Harry Selker, MD, MPH
(Clinical Care Research) and Joseph Lau, MD (Cochrane Center) among others.
A typical decision analysis
involves seven steps: 1) defining the clinical question, 2)
specifying the alternative strategies, 3) defining the outcomes
that might result from each alternative strategy, 4) estimating
the likelihood of each outcome, 5) determining the value of each
outcome (e.g., life expectancy or quality-adjusted life
expectancy or costs), 6) folding back and averaging out to
estimate the average expected value of each strategy, and 7)
performing sensitivity analysis by varying each parameter used in
the analysis over a broad range to determine the robustness of
the base case decision results. Each component of the analysis is
based on the synthesis of the best available data in the
literature coupled with an understanding of the underlying
pathophysiology and current clinical practice patterns. Each
component (probability or mortality rate) in the decision
analysis requires a thorough examination of the medical
literature, examining study populations and outcomes and pooling
data when appropriate. These literature reviews form the basis
for creating decision trees (simple trees, Markov models or Monte
Carlo Simulations), estimating probabilities, estimating life
expectancy, performing utility and functional status assessments,
defining test characteristics, performing meta-analysis or ROC
analysis, and determining the optimal operating point on the ROC
curve. Our Division has extensive experience examining outcome
and quality of care assessment through our collaboration with the
Division of Nephrology. In addition, our Division collaborates
with the Division of Critical Care Research and the Division of
Health Services Research for assistance with study design,
database design, statistical analysis, predictive instrument
development and meta-analysis. Our Division has been active in
pharmacoeconomics examining the cost-effectiveness analyses of
drug intervention trials, using our ability to examine resource
allocation and variable costs as well as total costs and charges
through the Clinical Cost Manager hospital cost accounting
system. The Division also has experience with clinician
interfaces by assisting with the design of decision support tools
at the bedside, an example being the pneumonia decision support
and quality of care assessment tool.
Our Division has been involved with numerous
consensus conferences and guideline development processes for the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Medical
Applications Research (OMAR), Institute of Medicine (IOM),
American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), American College of
Physicians (ACP), and Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) sponsored Patient Outcome Research
Teams (PORTs) on Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) and
Diabetes Mellitus. Most recently, we are a part of the New
England Medical Center AHCPR Evidence-based Practice Center
awarded to Dr Joseph Lau.
Funding for fellows to take formal courses at local
institutions such as Tufts, Boston University, MIT and Harvard is
included as part of the program. Trainees are strongly encouraged
to develop independent projects in informatics,
pharmaco-economics or decision theory, which lead to publications
and presentations at national meetings. Funding for travel to
national meetings to present their research is also available.
Funding for this fellowship is from the National Library of
Medicine and is restricted to US citizens or foreign nationals
holding permanent residency - a "Green Card." Many of our former fellows have moved on to leadership
positions in informatics, policy-making, teaching or their clinical
subspecialty. Most former trainees
are general internists, but the fellowship complements training in other
clinical specialties. Thus, former trainees include physicians in
cardiology, nephrology, infectious diseases, hepatology, gastroenterology,
hematology, oncology, pediatrics, cardiothoracic surgery, pathology, radiology,
psychiatry, and neurology.
Publications by Fellows since 1999
Stahl JE, Barza M, DesJardin J, Martin R, Eckman MH. Effect of
macrolides as part of initial empiric therapy on length of stay
in patients hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia. Archives
of Internal Medicine, 1999;159:2576-80.
Singh SK, Kao G, Erban J, Eckman MH. Screening for Factor V
Leiden mutation in patients with venous thromboembolism.
Presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical
Decision Making Medical Decision Making 1999;19:543.
Singh S, Thaler D, Hijazi Z, Salem D, Pauker SG. Patients with
patent foramen ovale: When do we seek closure? Presented at the
49th Annual Scientific Session of the American College
of Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
2000;35(suppl A);550A.
Braithwaite RS, Col NF, Hirota LK, Wong JB. Estimating hip
fracture morbidity, mortality, and costs. Selected for oral
presentation at Symposium on Quantitative Synthesis at the 23rd
Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine, Journal
of General Internal Medicine 2000;15(Suppl 1):55.
Cheng SJ, Bonis P, Lau J, Pham N, Wong JB. Interferon and
ribavirin for patients with chronic hepatitis C who did not
respond to previous IFN therapy: a meta-analysis of controlled
and uncontrolled trials. Presented at AASLD, Digestive Disease
Week, Gastroenterology 2000;118(Suppl 1):A948.
Braithwaite RS, Lau J, Chlebowshi RT, Hirota LK, Col NF. A
meta-analysis of vascular and neoplastic events associated with
tamoxifen. Presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society
for Medical Decision Making and awarded a Lee Lusted Student
Prize, Medical Decision Making 2000;20:485.
Cheng SJ, Pratt DS, Freeman RB, Kaplan MM, Wong JB. Living
donor versus cadaveric liver transplantation for patients with
non-resectable small hepatocellular carcinoma and Child's A
cirrhosis: A decision analysis. Presented at the 51st meeting of
the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, Hepatology
2000;32(pt 2):247A.
Wong JB, Cheng SJ, McQuillan GM, Poynard T, McHutchison JG.
Cost-effectiveness of screening for hepatitis C. Presented at the
51st meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver
Disease, Hepatology 2000;32(pt 2):424A.
Katz D, Payne D, Pauker S. Early surgery versus conservative
management of dissecting aneurysms of the descending thoracic
aorta. Medical Decision Making 2000;20:377-93.
Cheng SJ, Bonis PA, Lau J, Pham NQ, Wong JB. Interferon and
ribavirin for patients with chronic hepatitis C who did not
respond to previous IFN therapy: a meta-analysis of controlled
and uncontrolled trials. Hepatology 2001;33:231-40.
Braithwaite RS, Fortin JM, Bond BE, Col NF. Does the source of medical
information affect perceived health risks? Journal of General Internal
Medicine 2001;16(suppl 1):119.
Braithwaite RS, Wolf MP, Skolnik PR, Lau J, Wong JB. A
meta-analysis of viral load detectability with highly active anti-retroviral
therapy (HAART). Journal of General Internal Medicine 2001;16(suppl
1):120.
Cheng SJ, Freeman RB, Wong JB. Predicting the probability of
progression free survival in patients with small hepatocellular
carcinoma. Presented at TRANSPLANT 2001 the 2nd annual Joint
Transplant Meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
and the American Society of Transplantation, Liver Transplantation
2001.
Cheng SJ, Pratt DS, Freeman Jr RB,
Kaplan MM, Wong JB. Living-donor versus cadaveric liver
transplantation for non-resectable small hepatocellular carcinoma
and compensated cirrhosis: a decision analysis. Liver Transplantation
2001;72(5):861-8.
Braithwaite RS, Wolf MP, Skolnik PR, Lau J ,
Wong JB. Meta-analysis of viral load detectability, aids-defining events, and
deaths with highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). Presented at the 23rd
Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Medical Decision
Making 2001;21:538.
Braithwaite RS, Wong JB. A Monte-carlo simulation of phenotypic
resistance development in HIV patients treated with highly active
anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). Presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Society for Medical Decision Making, Medical Decision Making
2001;21:546.
Eckman MH, Singh SK, Erban JK, Kao G. Testing for Factor V Leiden in
patients with pulmonary or venous thromboembolism: a cost-effectiveness
analysis. Medical Decision Making 2002;22(2):108-24.
Rothberg M, Bennish ML, Kao JS, Wong JB. Do the
benefits from varicella vaccination outweigh the long-term risks? a
decision-analytic model for policymakers and pediatricians. Clinical
Infectious Disease 2002;99(7):885-94.
Cheng SJ, Freeman RB Jr, Wong JB. Predicting the
probability of progression-free survival in patients with small hepatocellular
carcinoma. Liver Transplantation 2002;8(4)323-8.
Hoffman SN, Wolf MP, TenBrook JA Jr, Wong JB.
Statistical methods for selection of hazard functions to extrapolate survival
data. Presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical
Decision Making. Medical Decision Making 2002;22(6):535.
TenBrook JA Jr, Hoffman SN, Wolf MP, Pauker SG, Salem DN,
Wong JB. A meta-analysis of randomized trials of coronary artery bypass graft
surgery versus percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Presented
at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making. Medical
Decision Making 2002;22(6)540.
TenBrook JA Jr, Wolf MP, Hoffman SN, Rosenwasser LJ,
Konstam MA, Salem DN, Wong JB. Should beta-blockers be given after myocardial
infarction to patients with peanut allergy? Presented at the 24th Annual
Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making. Medical Decision Making
2002 2002;22(6):551.
Braithwaite RS, Col NF, Wong JB. Estimating hip fracture morbidity,
mortality and costs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003;51(3):364-70.
Hoffman SN, Tenbrook JA Jr, Wolf MP, Pauker SG, Salem DN,
Wong JB. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing coronary
artery bypass graft with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: one- to
eight-year outcomes. Journal of the American College of Cardiology
2003;41(8)1293-304.
TenBrook JA Jr, Iafrati MD, O'Donnell TF, Wolf MP, Pauker SG,
Wong JB. Surgical outcomes of subfascial endoscopic perforator surgery (SEPS)
for venous ulcer: a meta-analysis. Oral presentation at the 15th Annual American
Venous Forum. 2003:25.
Hoffman SN, TenBrook JA Jr, Wolf MP, Gohler A, Wong JB.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of cognitive decline following coronary
artery bypass grafting. Presented at the 25th meeting of the Society for Medical
Decision Making, Medical Decision Making 2003;23(6):545.
TenBrook JA Jr, Iafrati MD, O'Donnell Jr TF, Wolf MP, Hoffman
SN, Pauker SG, Lau J, Wong JB. Systematic review of outcomes after surgical
management of venous disease incorporating subfascial endoscopic perforator surgery. Journal of
Vascular Surgery 2004;39(3):583-9.
Fine AM, Wong JB, Fraser HSF, Fleisher GR, Mandl KD. Is it influenza
or anthrax? a decision analytic approach to the management of patients with
influenza-like illnesses. Annals of Emergency Medicine
2004;43(3):318-28.
Rothberg M, Wong JB. All dysuria is local: a cost-effectiveness model
for designing site-specific management algorithms. Journal of General
Internal Medicine 2004;19(5pt1):433-43.
Braithwaite RS. Chlebowski RT. Lau J. George S. Hess R. Col NF.
Meta-analysis of vascular and neoplastic events associated with tamoxifen.
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2003;18(11):937-47.
TenBrook JA Jr, Wolf MP, Hoffman SN, Rosenwasser LJ,
Konstam MA, Salem DN, Wong JB. Should beta-blockers be given to patients with
heart disease and peanut-induced anaphylaxis? A decision analysis. Journal of
Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2004;113(5)977-82.
Amin MG, Wolf MP, TenBrook JA Jr, Freeman RB Jr, Cheng SJ,
Pratt DS, Wong JB. Expanded criteria donor grafts for deceased donor liver
transplantation under the MELD System: a decision analysis. Liver
Transplantation 2004;10(12):1468-75.
Sondhi M, Jagannath A, Wong J. A meta-analysis of randomized
controlled trials with coronary drug-eluting stents. Presented at the 26th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Medical Decision
Making 2005;i25(1):E43.
Shroff SD, Wong JB. Risks and benefits of the Oraquick HIV-1 rapid
test in multiparous women. Presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society
for Medical Decision Making, Medical Decision Making 2005;25(1):E27.
Sondhi M, Goffin JR, Cohen BJ, Wong JB, Pauker SG. DEALE-ing with lung
cancer and heart failure. Medical Decision Making 2005;25(1):82-94.
Noguchi Y, Nagata-Kobayashi S, Stahl JE, Wong JB. A
meta-analytic comparison of echocardiographic stressors. The International
Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging 2005;21(2-3):189-207.
Braithwaite RS, Justice AC, Chang CH, Fusco JS, Raffanti SR, Wong JB,
Roberts MS. Estimating the proportion of patients infected with HIV who will die of comorbid diseases. American Journal of
Medicine 2005;118(8):890-8.
Golan Y, Wolf MP, Pauker SG, Wong JB, Hadley S. Empirical anti-Candida
therapy among selected patients in the intensive care unit: a cost-effectiveness
analysis. Annals of Internal Medicine 2005;143(12):857-69.
Shah BB, Wong JB. The economics of hepatitis C virus. Clinics in
Liver Disease 2006;10:717-34.
Sondhi M, Jagannath A, Wong JB. A meta-analysis of randomized
controlled trials with coronary drug-eluting stents compared with bare-metal
stents. Internet Journal of Cardiology 2006;3(2) http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlPrinter=true&xmlFilePath=journals/ijc/vol3n2/des.xml.
Barshes NR, Shah BB, Sondhi M, Freeman RB, Wong JB, Vierling JM,
Goss JA. Is accepting a liver graft from a donor after cardiac death better than
remaining on the wait list and preferring a liver graft from a donor after brain
death? Results of a decision analysis. Oral presentation at the 2006 World
Transplant Congress.
Sondhi M, Wong J, Pauker SG. Effect of time horizon on incremental
cost-effectiveness ratios: how long do we count? Presented at the 28th Annual
Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Medical Decision Making
2006.
Tamura DJ, Shah BB, Sondhi M, Wong JB. The effect of
work-up intensity bias on the sensitivity of CT colonography. Presented at the
28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Medical Decision
Making 2006.
Rajendra A, Shah BB, Wong J. Impact of hepatitis B genotype on
treatment response: a meta-analysis of controlled and uncontrolled trials.
Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study
of Liver Diseases. Hepatology 2006;(4 suppl 1):556A.
Bonder A, Shah BB, Wong JB. A meta-analysis of HCV treatment in HIV
co-infected patients. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American
Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Hepatology 2006;44(4 suppl
1):325A-326A.
Retana AK, Rajendra A, Wong JB. Prognosis following hepatitis B
surface antigen clearance: a systematic review of 9 cohort studies. Oral
presentation #91 at Digestive Disease Week and the 108th Annual Meeting of the
American Gastroenterological Association, Gastroenterology 2007;132(4 suppl
S2):A729.
Rajendra A, Wong JB. Cross trial comparison of genotypic response
rates with adefovir, entecavir, or telbivudine for chronic hepatitis B. #S1783
presented at Digestive Disease Week and the 108th Annual Meeting of the American
Gastroenterological Association, Gastroenterology 2007;132(4 suppl S2):A729.
Awards for Presentations by Fellows
Sonnenberg FA, Eckman MH, Jacoby I, Pauker SG. Registries of
unrelated bone marrow donors: Relation between donor pool size
and probability of finding a match. Presented at the 9th Annual
Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making and awarded a
Lee Lusted Student Prize, Medical Decision Making
1986;6:273.
Eckman MH, McNutt RA, Parkinson DR, Pauker SG. A clinical
decision analysis of competing risks: a generic model of tumor
growth to determine the optimal timing of radical cystectomy
after recent myocardial infarction. Presented at the 9th Annual
Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making and awarded a
Lee Lusted Student Prize, Medical Decision Making
1986;6:266.
Wong JB, Tsevat J, Meyer KB, Pauker SG. Modeling therapeutic
efficacy in time-dependent Markov Simulations. Presented at the
9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making and
awarded a Lee Lusted Student Prize, Medical Decision Making
1987;7:280.
Tsevat J, Durand-Zaleski I, Snydman DR, Pauker SG, Werner BG,
Levey AS. Which renal transplant patients should receive
cytomegalovirus immune globulins? A cost-effectiveness analysis.
Presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical
Decision Making and awarded a Lee Lusted Student Prize, Medical
Decision Making 1988;8:344.
McCarthy BD, Wong JB, Sonnenberg FA. Cost-effectiveness of
screening asymptomatic HIV infection. Presented at the 12th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making and
awarded a Lee Lusted Student Prize, Medical Decision Making
1990;10:329.
Hillner BE, Smith TJ. Efficacy and Cost Effectiveness of
Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Women with Node-Negative Breast Cancer:
A Decision Analysis Model. Awarded First Annual Outstanding Paper
by a Young Investigator at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society
for Medical Decision Making. New England Journal of Medicine
1991;324:160-8
Col NF, Eckman MH, Karas RH, Pauker SG, Goldberg RJ, Ross EM,
Wong JB. Decisions about postmenopausal hormonal replacement
therapy: A decision-analytic model. Presented at the plenary
session of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society of General
Internal Medicine and awarded the Mack Lipkin, Sr Award for
Outstanding Scientific Presentation, Journal of General
Internal Medicine 1996;11 (Suppl):57.
Col NF, Eckman MH, Ross EM, Pauker SG, Goldberg RJ, Orr RK,
Wong JB. Hormone replacement therapy or alendronate for
postmenopausal women with osteoporosis? Presented at the 18th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making and
awarded a Lee Lusted Student Prize, Medical Decision Making
1996;16:454.
Rothberg M, Bennish ML, Wong JB. Projecting the long-term
consequences of varicella vaccination in infancy. Presented at
the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision
Making and awarded a Lee Lusted Student Prize, Medical
Decision Making 1998;18:467.
Braithwaite RS, Lau J, Chlebowshi RT, Hirota LK, Col NF. A
meta-analysis of vascular and neoplastic events associated with
tamoxifen. Presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society
for Medical Decision Making and awarded a Lee Lusted Student
Prize, Medical Decision Making 2000;20:485.
Gohler A, Hoffman SN, Wolf MP, TenBrook JA Jr, Wong JB.
Post-CABG Cognitive decline: a meta-analysis of outcomes from one week to six
months. Presented at the 2nd Annual Tufts-New England Medical Center
Research Day and awarded Clinical Prize given to top 2 abstracts.
Sondhi M, Jagannath A, Wong JB. A meta-analysis of randomized
controlled trials with coronary drug-eluting stents. Presented at the 3rd Annual Tufts-New England Medical Center
Research Day and awarded Clinical Prize given to top 2 abstracts.
Former Fellows
| Jonathan Gottlieb, MD |
Senior Vice President for Clinical
Affairs and Chief Medical Officer (responsibilities
include Department of Information Technology), Thomas
Jefferson University Hospital, Associate Professor of
Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care, Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia, PA |
| Karen Klein, MD |
Pediatrician, Harvard Vanguard Medical
Associates, Boston, MA |
| J Robert Beck, MD |
Vice President of Bioinformatics and Chief Information
Officer, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Editor
Emeritas, Medical Decision Making; President,
Society for Medical Decision Making 1996 |
| Joseph Lau, MD |
Director, Center for Clinical Evidence
Synthesis and AHRQ sponsored Tufts-NEMC Evidence Based Practice
Center, New England Cochrane Center, Division of Clinical
Care Research, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Professor of
Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Professor
of Clinical Research, Tufts University Sackler School of
Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Boston, MA |
| Barbara Chase, MD |
Medical Director for Mass Health,
MassPro (Massachusetts Peer Review Organization),
Waltham, MA |
| Gregory Peterson, MD |
Physiatrist, Bones, Spines and Sport
Center, Bismarck, ND |
| Deborah Zarin, MD |
Director, Technology Assessment Program,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of
Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD |
| George Cuchural, MD |
Infectious Disease, South Shore
Hospital, Weymouth, MA |
| Dennis Plante, MD |
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of
Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care Center,
Burlington, VT, Given Health Care Center, Williston, VT |
| Bruce Hillner, MD |
Associate Chair for Information Systems,
Department of Internal Medicine, Professor of Medicine,
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Medical
College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, VA; Physician Advisor Medical
Information Services, Medical College of Virginia Campus
of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA |
| Alan Moskowitz, MD |
Co-Director, International Center for
Health Outcomes and Innovation Research, Associate
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Clinical Public Health
and Surgery, Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Health
Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Columbia
University, New York, NY |
| James Hollenberg, MD |
Assistant Director of Medicine, Director
of Informatics Systems, Medical Informatics and Decision
Support, Associate Professor of Medicine, New York Weill
Cornell Medical Center, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University, New York, NY |
| Van Howard Dunn, MD |
Senior Vice President of Medical and
Professional Affairs, Health and Hospital Corp, New York,
NY |
| Mark Eckman, MD |
Director, Division of General Internal
Medicine, Director of Center for Clinical Effectiveness,
Alice Margaret Posey Professor of Medicine, University of
Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; President,
Society for Medical Decision Making 2000 |
| Frank Sonnenberg, MD |
Director of Healthcare Informatics,
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey,
Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Robert
Wood Johnson University Medical Group, Professor of
Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine,
Department of Medicine, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School, New Brunswick, NJ, Clinical Associate Professor
of Health Informatics, UMDNJ, School of Health Related
Professions, Newark, NJ, Editor Emeritas, Medical
Decision Making, President, Society for
Medical Decision Making 2006 |
| Stephen Pastan, MD |
Associate Professor of Medicine, Renal
Division, Department of Medicine, Emory Clinic, Emory
University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA |
| John Wong, MD |
Chief, Division of Clinical Decision
Making, Informatics and Telemedicine, Professor
of Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts University
School of Medicine, Boston, MA; President, Society for
Medical Decision Making 2003 |
| Robert McNutt, MD |
Associate Director, Medical Informatics
and Outcomes Research, Rush Presbyterian St Lukes Medical
Center, Professor of Medicine, Rush Medical College,
Chicago, IL |
| Robert Jayes, MD |
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Medicine,
Assistant Professor of Health Care Sciences, George
Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC |
| Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, MD |
Public Health (Santé Publique),
Hôpital Henri Mondor, Paris, France |
| Craig Fleming, MD |
Health Outcomes Associates, Internal
Medicine, Kaiser Permanente, Vancouver, WA |
| Oksana Senyk, MD |
Department of Physiology and Biophysics,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AB |
| Joel Tsevat, MD |
Director of Outcomes Research,
Department of Internal Medicine, Research Director,
Center for Clinical Effectiveness, Associate Professor of
Medicine, Institute for Health Policy and Health Services
Research, University of Cincinnati Medical Center;
Director of HSR&D, Veterans Health Care of Ohio (VISN
10), Cincinnati, OH; President, Society for Medical
Decision Making 2002 |
| Klemens Meyer, MD |
Director of Dialysis Services, Division
of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, New England
Medical Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts
University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Medical
Director of Information Systems, Dialysis Clinic Inc,
Nashville, TN |
| Paul Roach, MD |
Cardiologist, Texas Cardiovascular
Consultant, Austin, TX |
| Michael Meistrell, MD |
President and Chief Operating Officer, AHM Systems,
Rancho Viejo, TX |
| Randolph Peto, MD |
Medical Director for Quality
Improvement, MassPro (Massachusetts Peer Review
Organization), Waltham, MA |
| Michael Hagen, MD |
Vice President - Assessment Methods Development,
American Board of Family Medicine, Professor
of Family Practice, Department of Family and Community Medicine,
University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY |
| Anne-Marie Audet, MD MSc SM |
Assistant Vice President, Improving the Quality of
Healthcare Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY |
| Greg Larsen, MD |
Director, Cardiac Catheterization
Laboratory, Portland VA Medical Center, Associate
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Oregon
Health Sciences University, Portland, OR |
| Harvey Chang, MD |
Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill
University Teaching Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Steven Georgeson, MD |
Cardiologist, Medicor Cardiology,
Bridgewater, NJ |
| Jeffrey Lipton, MD |
Pathology, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, State University of New York at Brooklyn,
Brooklyn, NY |
| Dawn Provenzale, MD MS |
Director Gastroenterology Outcomes
Research, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke
University Medical Center; Institute for Clinical and
Epidemiological Research, Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, Durham, NC |
| Jeffrey Rehm, MD |
Pulmonary Associates, Mary Washington
Hospital, Fredericksburg, VA |
| Victor Fernandez, MD |
Pathologist, Girard/Springfield, ILL |
| Wladimir Hogenhuis, MD MBA |
Director of Marketing, New Product
Development, Worldwide Human Health Marketing, Merck,
Whitehouse Station, NJ |
| Brian Kan, MD, MSc |
Director Combined Internal Medicine and
Pediatrics Residency Training Program, Assistant
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics UCLA, Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; Board of Directors,
Venice Family Clinic; Membership Chair, Section on
Combined Med-Peds, American Academy of Pediatrics |
| Erick Gonzalez, MD |
Pathologist, CPIP/Ameripath, Beaver Dam, WI |
| Howard Goldberg, MD |
Head, Scientific Advisory Board, Clinician Support
Technology, Newton, MA; Clinical Instructor, Salem Hospital, Salem,
MA and Union Hospital, Lynn, MA |
| Brian Cohen, MD |
Director of the Pratt Diagnostic Center, General Medical Associates, Department of
Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Assistant Professor
of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston,
MA |
| Murray Krahn, MD |
Associate Director, Program in Clinical
Epidemiology and Health Care Research, University Health
Network, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of
Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| Elizabeth Penny Israel, MD |
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine,
Northern Navajo Medical Center, Shiprock, NM |
| David Katz, MD MSc |
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Co-director, K-30 Training Program, Division of General Internal Medicine,
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA |
| Charles Ellis, MD |
Insight Data Analysis, Winchester, MA |
| Robert Holland, MD |
Assistant Research Professor of
Medicine, University of Vermont, College of Medicine,
Office of Health Promotion Research, and North Country
Hospital, Newport, VT |
| William Bennett, MD |
Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine,
Bennett Medical Clinic, Starksville, Mississippi |
| Nananda Col, MD MPP MPH |
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital,
Brown Medical School, Providence, RI
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| Yoshinori Noguchi, MD MPH PhD |
Associate Professor, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Fujita Health University
School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan |
| James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH |
Assistant Physician in Radiology,
Graduate Assistant in Medicine, MGH-Institute for Technology Assessment,
Departments of Radiology and Medicine, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA |
| Isao Ohsawa, MD |
Research Center of Health, Physical
Fitness and Sports Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan |
| Michael Rothberg, MD |
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics, Department
of Medicine, Baystate Medical Center, Tufts University School of
Medicine, Springfield, MA |
| Roger Li, MD |
Medical Officer, Division of Medical
Imaging and Radiopharmaceutical Drug Products, Center for
Drug Evaluation and Research, Federal Drug
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services,
Washington, DC |
| Sushil Singh, MD |
Cardiology Section, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA |
| Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MSc, MRCP |
Director of Informatics and
Telemedicine, Partners in Health, Program in Infectious Disease and Social
Change, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty, Children's Hospital
Informatics Program, Instructor, Boston
Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| Steven Cheng, MD |
Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Kaiser Permanente, Walnut
Creek, CA |
| R. Scott Braithwaite, MD |
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section
of General Internal Medicine,
Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and
Connecticut VA Healthcare System, New Haven, CT |
| Devashish Sen, MD |
Clinical Instructor in Anesthesiology,
Fellow in Pain Management, Caritas St.
Elizabeth's Medical Center, Brighton, MA |
| Michael Wolf, MD |
Internist, Crystal Run Health Care, Middletown, NY |
| Stuart Hoffman, DO |
Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Associate,
Outcomes Research Institute Geisinger Health System Danville, PA |
| John TenBrook Jr, MD |
Hospitalist, Rehabilitation Medical Associates, South Shore
Hospitalist Group, Braintree, MA |
| Sunil Shroff, MD |
Part-time Attending Staff, Department of Emergency Medicine, Olive View-UCLA Medical
Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| Manu Sondhi, MD, MBA, MPH |
Associate Medical Director, Health Care Analytics Group-Boston,
United BioSource Corporation, Medford, MA |
| Ted Weitz, MD |
Health Care Associated Emergency Physicians, Kansas City, MO |
| David J Tamura, MD |
Fellow, Department of Hematology and Oncology. Montefiore Medical Center,
Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, NY |
| Bhavesh B Shah, MD |
Fellow, Department of Gastroenterology, Alleghany General Hospital,
Pittsburgh, PA |
| Sara Baig, MD |
Fellow, Cardiovascular Disease, University Hospitals and Clinics,
Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, University of
Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, MO |
| Wendy Golden, MD, MPH |
Past Fellow, Clinical Decision Making, Division of
Clinical Decision Making, Informatics and Telemedicine,
Department of Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts
University School of Medicine, Boston, MA |
| Arathi Rajendra, MD |
Fellow, Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert
Einstein Medical School, New York, NY |
| J Stewart Evans, MD |
Fellow, Clinical Decision Making, Division of
Clinical Decision Making, Informatics and Telemedicine,
Department of Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts
University School of Medicine, Boston, MA |
| Alexandra Retana, MD |
Fellow, Clinical Decision Making, Division of
Clinical Decision Making, Informatics and Telemedicine,
Department of Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts
University School of Medicine, Boston, MA |
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