Kay Dickersin
Professor
Director, Center for Clinical Trials
Departmental Affiliation
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Epidemiology
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Primary
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- Clinical Trials (http://www.jhsph.edu/cct/)
Departmental Address
Room E6152
Research and Professional Experience
Dr. Dickersin's major research interests are related to randomized clinical trials, trials registers, systematic reviews and meta analysis, publication bias, peer review, evidence-based health care, and comparative effectiveness research. She has conducted studies in a number of important subject areas, including women's health, eyes and vision, and surgery.
Dr. Dickersin serves as the Director for the Center for Clinical Trials http://www.jhsph.edu/cct/, whose faculty, staff and students are involved in methodologic research and oversee coordination of data collection and analysis of important clinical trials. She and the Clinical Trials faculty develop and implement the curriculum of the Clinical Trials area of concentration.
She is also Director of the US Cochrane Center (USCC), one of 13 Centers worldwide participating in The Cochrane Collaboration (www.us.cochrane.org). The Collaboration aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health by preparing, maintaining, and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of available evidence on the benefits and risks of health care. The USCC hosts Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE) http://us.cochrane.org/consumers-united-evidence-based-healthcare-cue. Dr. Dickersin also serves as an editor of the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Review Group. (CEVG)(www.eyes.cochrane.org).
Keywords
epidemiology, clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, evidence-based health care, comparative effectiveness research, publication bias, trials registration, peer review, eyes and vision, women's health, the Cochrane Collaboration
Honors and Awards
1993 - 1997 Frohlich Fellowship, New York Academy of Sciences.
1994 “Woman of Excellence,” National Association of Women Business Owners, Baltimore Regional Chapter.
1995 Ellen Barnett Memorial Award, Susan B. Komen Foundation Race for the Cure.
1996 Women’s Hall of Fame, Baltimore City Commission for Women.
1998; 2006 “Maryland’s Top 100 Women,” Daily Record.
1998 MAMM magazine’s “50 Who Made a Difference.”
1999 Elected to membership, American Epidemiological Society.
2000 “Exceptional Advocate,” National Breast Cancer Coalition.
2007 "Contributions and Enduring Commitment to the Eradication of Cancer," American Association for Cancer Research.
2007 Elected to membership, Institute of Medicine
2009 JHSPH Student Assembly, Advising, Mentoring, Teaching Recognition Award (AMTRA)
2011 Elected Fellow, Society for Clinical trials
Selected Publications
Click here for a full list of Dr. Dickersin's citations in PubMed
Goodman S, Dickersin K. Metabias: A challenge for comparative effectiveness research. Ann Intern Med. 2011 Jul 5;155(1):61-2.
Dickersin K. To reform U.S. health care, start with systematic reviews. Science 329(5991):516-7, 2010.
Vedula SS, Bero L, Scherer RW, Dickersin K. Outcome reporting in industry-sponsored trials of gabapentin for off-label use. N Engl J Med 361:1963-71, 2009.
Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff, J, Altman D, The PRISMA Group
