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 CiteMelding Multiple Sources of Knowledge: Using Theory and Experiential Knowledge to Design a Community Health Intervention Study
Journal Article Journal of Participatory Research Methods · January 1, 2021 Although Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is grounded in socioecological theories of health, using and addressing theory in CBPR can be challenging. This paper explores how theory was used and melded with community expertise in one CBPR study ... Full text 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.