Lesley H. Curtis

Lesley H. Curtis is Chair and Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and Professor in Medicine in the Duke School of Medicine.  A health services researcher by training, Dr. Curtis is an expert in the use of health care and Medicare claims data for health services and clinical outcomes research, and a leader in national data quality efforts. Dr. Curtis has led the linkage of Medicare claims with several large clinical registries and epidemiological cohort studies including the Framingham Heart Study and the Cardiovascular Health Study. Dr. Curtis recently served as a senior policy advisor at the Food and Drug Administration supporting the Agency’s evidence generation initiative, serves as an Investigator in the Coordinating Center for PCORI's PCORnet, and is co-PI of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory, an NIH initiative to strengthen the national capacity for large-scale research studies embedded in health care delivery.

Areas of expertise: Health Services Research and Health Policy