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
Recent Publications
Economic analysis of a single institutional review board data exchange standard in multisite clinical studies.
Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · November 2022 BACKGROUND: Single Institutional Review Boards (sIRB) are not achieving the benefits envisioned by the National Institutes of Health. The recently published Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) data exchange standard ... Full text Link to item CiteThe Role of Socioeconomic Status in a Community-Based Study of Diabetes Secondary Prevention Among African Americans.
Journal Article Int J Health Promot Educ · 2022 Full text Link to item CiteThe Project Baseline Health Study: a step towards a broader mission to map human health.
Journal Article NPJ Digit Med · 2020 The Project Baseline Health Study (PBHS) was launched to map human health through a comprehensive understanding of both the health of an individual and how it relates to the broader population. The study will contribute to the creation of a biomedical info ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Duke CTSA (UL1)
ResearchRegulatory Consultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2018Evaluation of an Automated Information Extraction Tool for Identification of Venous Thromboembolism in Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
ResearchStatistician · Awarded by Association of American Medical Colleges · 2016 - 2017Population-based Surveillance And Ourcomes of Venous Thromboembolism
ResearchStatistician · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2015 - 2017View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
1981
Ph.D.