Overview
- HIPAA and other regulatory systems and their impact on Research
- Patient Privacy
- Evaluation of outcomes in cardiac surgical patients.
- Validate statistical models of short and long term outcome of patients with IHD in non-academic databases.
- Developing methods to present these evaluations so that they can be incorporated into patient care activities on an ongoing basis.
- To understand the variability in the utilization of medical care services in ischemic heart disease (IHD).
- Methods to link data from clinical and research databases to effectively use the data for both purposes.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
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2019 - Present
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Division of Biostatistics,
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute
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1972 - Present
Duke Clinical Research Institute,
Institutes and Centers
Education, Training & Certifications
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
1981
Ph.D.