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Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and founding Director of the MS/PhD Graduate Program in Clinical and Translational Science at the Tufts Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences of Tufts CTSI. At Tufts Medical Center, I am the Executive Director for the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS), Director of its Center for Cardiovascular Health Services Research, and Chief of the Division of Clinical Care Research in the Department of Medicine. I have served on boards and as an officer for a variety of professional and educational organizations, including as founding Board member and President of the Society for Clinical and Translational Science for 2010-11, and as President of the Society for General Internal Medicine for 2011-12. I am an active advocate for research and health policy on Capitol Hill and have led a number of coalitions of professional and scientific organizations in support of health and research policy.Our research at Tufts CTSI and ICRHPS is focused on the development of treatment strategies, decision aids, methods, and systems aimed at improving medical care, especially emergency and cardiac care. Has published a series of studies on factors influencing emergency cardiac care and the development of clinical predictive instruments as decision aids that provide emergency physicians and paramedics with predictions for their patients’ likely cardiac diagnoses and outcomes for real-time use in clinical care. This and related work has included conduct of multiple large national clinical effectiveness trials, including demonstrating better treatment and clinical outcomes for patients with acute coronary syndromes and acute myocardial infarction. Additional research includes advanced clinical study design, data analysis, mathematical predictive modeling of medical outcomes, and comparative effectiveness research.

Listed skills include Clinical Research, Public Health, Health Policy, Internal Medicine, and 12 others.