Other Areas of Research
Carla Boutin-Foster, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Email: cboutin@med.cornell.edu
Tel: 212-746-1330
I would like to participate in the mentoring of residents in clinical research. General areas of interest include health disparities and vulnerable populations research; identifying psychosocial determinants of health disparities in cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions; working with faith-based and other community-based organizations to develop and evaluate health interventions using a community-based participatory research model; and applying social science theories in developing health behavior interventions. Recent Residents Mentored: Karin-Elizabeth Ouchida, Mitch Grotz-Rhone
Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research, Department of Public Health
Email: lac2021@med.cornell.edu
Tel: 646-962-8044
Dr. Casalino studies the organization of physician practices, the use of organized processes to improve the quality of care and to control costs by physicians and hospitals, physician relations with hospitals and health plans, and health care policy. Examples of projects: (1) national survey of medical groups to obtain data on group structure, IT, and policy environment; (2) review of medical records in 23 medical groups to determine frequency of physicians’ failing to inform patients of clinically significant abnormal outpatient test results; (3) large national survey to estimate the cost to physician practices of dealing with health plans.
Mary E. Charlson, MD
Professor of MedicineChief, Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluative Sciences Research (CEESR)
Email: mecharl@med.cornell.edu
Tel: 212-746-1607
Dr. Charlson is a clinical epidemiologist whose research focuses on developing measures of clinical phenomena, improving outcomes among patients with chronic illness and, specifically, patients with chronic cardiopulmonary disease. She is also conducting clinical trials to help motivate patients with cardiovascular disease to make healthy lifestyle behavioral changes.
Curtis L. Cole, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine; Chief Medical Information Officer
Email: ccole@med.cornell.edu
Tel: 212-746-0471
I have supervised several residents who have successfully completed projects in MedicalInformatics. Topics of specific interest are evaluation of Electronic Medical Records, Terminology and Terminology Servers, Clinical Research Management Systems, Data Warehousing, Decision Support, Quality and Safety Reporting, Patient Portals. I would also suggest potential collaborative projects with other faculty. I can assist residents trying to access data for projects.
Gary Deng, MD, PhD
MSKCC, Integrative Medicine Service
Email: dengg@mskcc.org
Tel: 646-888-0841
Clinical trials of complementary therapies in cancer supportive care include use of acupuncture and botanical agents. Trainees will learn the fundamentals of complementary therapies and design of clinical studies. They will assist in the conduct of rigorously designed clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of these therapies in the setting of cancer care. This project offers a rewarding and unique experience to residents interested in clinical research and integrative medicine.
James Hollenberg, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Email: jph2002@med.cornell.edu
Tel: 212-746-1607
Special interest in the application of decision analytic and artificial intelligence techniques to medicine. Areas of research include: theory and practice of decision analysis; development and integration of sophisticated artificial intelligence program to monitor an operational computerized patient care system.
Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Public HealthChief, Division of Quality and Clinical Informatics (Public Health)
Email: rak2007@med.cornell.edu
Tel: 646-962-8065
We have successfully mentored residents in the past, and would be happy to do so again. Working with Dr. Lisa Kern, we study the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of health information technology (IT) applications, with a particular focus on economic, quality, safety, patient, and provider outcomes. We are also interested in health IT adoption, health IT policy, and unintended consequences from the use of health IT.
Recent Resident Mentored: Sonja Olson
Lisa M. Kern, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medicine
Email: lmk2003@med.cornell.edu
Tel: 646-962-8066
We have successfully mentored residents in the past, and would be happy to do so again. Working with Dr. Rainu Kaushal, we study the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of health information technology (IT) applications, with a particular focus on economic, quality, safety, patient, and provider outcomes. We are also interested in health IT adoption, health IT policy, and unintended consequences from the use of health IT.
Recent Residents Mentored: Daniel Goldin, Abby Spencer, Amanda Carmel
Alvin I. Mushlin, MD, ScM
Professor of Public Health and Medicine; Chair, Department of Public Health
Email: aim2001@med.cornell.edu
Tel: 649-962-8009
Clinical research opportunities are available in the general area of outcomes and comparative effectiveness research, clinical decision-making and clinical policy formulation. Studies include: (1) quantifying the value and accuracy of diagnostic tests and procedures; (2) understanding the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of interventions for common clinical problems; (3) measuring the quality of medical care.
Kenneth Offit, MD, MPH
MSKCC, Chief, Clinical Genetics Service
Tel: 646-888-4067
Research is focused on questions related to inherited susceptibility to cancer. Research projects range from laboratory based genome wide association scans to clinical projects correlating abstracted chart information with specific germline genetic mutations.
Contact: Tomas Kirchhoff, PhD
Laboratory Director, Clinical Cancer Genetics Research Laboratory, MSKCC. Tel: 646-888-3092
Janey Peterson, RN, EdD, MS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Email: jcpeters@med.cornell.edu
Tel: 212- 746-1607
As a clinical epidemiologist, Dr. Peterson develops behavioral interventions focused on lifestyle changes in patients with chronic illness, as well as improving outcomes in patients with chronic cardiopulmonary disease. She has expertise in the use of both quantitative and qualitative methodology.
Henry G. Wei, MD
Clinical Instructor in Medicine
Email: hgw2001@med.cornell.edu
Tel: 212-845-9838 or 212-849-0125
I'd be overjoyed if any residents or students wanted to either conduct a novel research project or assist with an existing one. My research focuses on medical informatics, computerized clinical decision support and alerting, and adoption of evidence-based medicine. My team develops clinical alert algorithms and predictive models for a decision support engine running on a continuously updated database of 20 million U.S. patients. We develop algorithms for physician performance measurement in conjunction with the National Quality Foundation (NQF). The team also works on health information exchange (HIE) projects with regional health information exchange organizations (RHIOs). Most recently, our research has looked at clinical alert validity and outcomes, as well as the health economics of clinical alerting and value-based formulary design.
For More Information
For additional information regarding the medical research track and a description of research projects pursued by our faculty, please refer to the following sites:
Research at Weill Cornell Medical College
Research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Research at the Hospital for Special Surgery
Research at The Rockefeller University
