Short Course on Diagnostic, Prediction and Screening Tests

SHORT COURSE ON DIAGNOSTIC, PREDICTION AND SCREENING TESTS

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/ Steven N. Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD is Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research and Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Research at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Goodman received a BA from Harvard University, MD from NYU, trained in pediatrics at Washington University, and obtained a MHS in Biostatistics and PhD in Epidemiology and from Johns Hopkins. Before joining Stanford in 2011, Dr. Goodman was on the faculties of the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health for 20 years, where he directed the Oncology Biostatistics Division and co-directed the doctoral program in epidemiology. He has been the editor of Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials since 2004 and senior statistical editor for the Annals of Internal Medicine since 1987. He has served on wide range of Institute of Medicine committees, most recently co-chairing of the Committee on Ethical and Scientific Issues in Studying the Safety of Approved Drugs. He is the vice-chair of the Methodology Committee of PCORI (the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute), and is co-director of a new Stanford center on meta-research. He is interested in the determinants of truth of medical findings, scientific inference, evidence synthesis, comparative effectiveness research, and the ethics of clinical research.
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/ Douglas K. Owens, PhD is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor, and Director of the Center for Health Policy (CHP) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and of the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR) in the Department of Medicine and School of Medicine at Stanford. He is a general internist and Associate Director of the Center for Innovation to Implementation, a health services research center of excellence, at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Owens is a Professor of Medicine and, by courtesy, Professor of Health Research and Policy, and Professor of Management Science and Engineering, at Stanford University; he is also a Senior Fellow at FSI.
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/ Rita Popat, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Research and Policy. She has a PhD in epidemiology and also holds masters degrees in biostatistics and physical therapy. She teaches the first course in research methods, Design and Conduct of Clinical and Epidemiologic Studies (HRP 225) in the graduate program in epidemiology. She also teaches other courses on study designs and chronic disease epidemiology. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, specifically evaluating the genetic and environmental contributions to these neurodegenerative disorders.
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/ Kristin Sainani, PhD is a clinical assistant professor in the department of Health Research and Policy. She teaches statistics and science writing, science communication, biostatistics. Research areas: osteoporosis, stress fractures, sports injuries, female athlete triad and serves as the statistical editor for the Journal PM&R
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/ John Sninsky, PhD is the Vice President of Discovery Research at Celera. The Discovery Research group encompasses teams of scientists who work in: specific disease areas, a high-throughput genotyping and expression facility, statistical genetics, biomarker development, computational biology and future diagnostic technologies. Dr. Sninsky’s primary focus is the application of genetic and genomic tools to identify and develop diagnostic and pharmacogenomic assays for common complex disease and cancer. He is the author of numerous scientific papers including methods in molecular biology, application of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to virology and cancer, and more recently, genome-wide genetic association studies for multiple common, complex diseases.
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