Christopher Schmid, PhD, Professor and Chair of Biostatistics at the Brown University School of Public Health, has a featured interview in Amstat News. Read the interview.

Rowan Iskandar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice has come out with a new publication: "A theoretical foundation for state-transition cohort models in health decision analysis"

Rowan Iskandar, PhD will present at a Health Policy Seminar at the Center for the Evaluation of Value & Rick in Health (CEVR) at Tufts Medical Center (35 Kneeland Street, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02111) on December 4, 2018 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm.

Title: "A theoretical foundation for state-transition cohort model in health decision analyses"

Abstract:

New article on "Features and functioning of Data Abstraction Assistant, a software application for data abstraction during systematic reviews" by Jens Jap, Ian J. Saldanha, Bryant T. Smith, Joseph Lau, Christopher H. Schmid, Tianjing Li, on behalf of the Data Abstraction Assistant Investigators.

Kristin Danko, PhD, has been presented with the Worton Researcher in Training Award at The Ottawa Hospital Gala on Saturday, October 27, 2018 for work completed during her PhD on methods for optimizing evidence synthesis of complex interventions.

Congratulations to CESH's Shaun Forbes on receiving a 2018 SG Pauker Award for Quantitative Methods and Theoretical Developments (QMTD) at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) in Montreal for his work: "Bounding the Implications of Non-compliance in Randomized Trials of Orthopedic Surgery”.

Christopher Schmid, Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of Biostatistics, along with CESH’s Valerie Rofeberg, Biostatistician and Senior Research Associate, and Stacey Springs, Investigator in Health Services, Policy and Practice, attended and presented at the 25^th Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh, UK which took place from September 16-18, 2018.

Center of Evidence Synthesis in Health Oral Sessions:

Thomas Trikalinos, MD, Associate Professor in Health Services, Policy, and Practice and the Director of the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, led an AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center project on Treatments for Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin with Aaron Drucker, MD, ScM, FRCPC, CESH Research Associates; Gaelen Adam. MLIS, Valerie Rofeberg, ScM and other collegues.

Our team examined the safety and effectiveness of bariatric surgery among Medicare eligible populations.

Read our findings

Ethan Balk, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, along with other CESH and Tufts Medical Center collegues led an AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center project on Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence in Women.