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Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Survey Course

CER Course Outline and Lecture Titles

The live in-person course will take place at:
Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
145 Harrison Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts  02111
For directions, please click here. 

Lectures are also now available online at I LEARN.

Room assignments will vary and are indicated below.

Week/Date

 Unit and Title of Presentation Presenter(s)

Room Assignment

1
Feb 1

 Unit 1: Introduction
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Recent History & Role in Healthcare
Rationale for CER

 

Harry P. Selker, MD, MSPH
Peter J. Neumann, ScD

 114 West

2 
Feb 8

 A Review of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and a Framework for Understanding the CER Agenda (evidence generation, synthesis, integration and decision making) Thomas W. Concannon, PhD 114 West
       

3
Feb 15

Unit 2: Evidence Generation
Comparative Effectiveness Trials and Other Prospective Comparative Effectiveness Studies
Integrating Genetic Information into Clinical Effectiveness Trials

 

David M. Kent, MD, MSc


Thomas A. Trikalinos, MD, PhD

114 West

4
Feb 22

 Personalized Medicine, Heterogeneity of Treatment Effect and Implications for Comparative Effectiveness David M. Kent, MD, MSc 114 West
5 
March 1		 Retrospective and Observational Comparative Effectiveness Studies Dana Gelb Safran, ScD 
Peter K. Lindenauer, MD, MSc		 First Floor Lecture Hall
       

6 
March 8

 Unit 3: Evidence Synthesis 
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis		 Joseph Lau, MD 
Christopher H. Schmid, PhD

114 West

       

7 
March 15

 Unit 4: Evidence Integration 
Decision modeling - Cost Effectiveness		 John B. Wong, MD 
Stephen G. Pauker, MD		 812

8 
March 22

 Decision modeling - Simulations Joshua T. Cohen, PhD 114 West
       

9 
March 29

 Unit 5: Use of Evidence in Decision Making 
Community Engagement and Input into CER

Laurel K. Leslie, MD, MPH

 114 West

10 
April 5

 Clinical Practice Guidelines Katrin Uhlig, MD, MS 114 West

11 
April 12

 Clinical Effectiveness Trials and Predictive Instruments as Decision Support for Implementing CER Harry P. Selker, MD, MSPH 216 A
April 19 No Class

12 
April 26

 Drug Development in the CER Era Kenneth I. Kaitin, PhD 516

13
May 3

 Using Comparative Effectiveness Research to Reach Employers and Employees Debra J. Lerner, MS, PhD 114 West

14
May 10

 Economic and Policy Implications of CER Christopher P. Tompkins, PhD 114 West
       

15
May 17

 Unit 6: Future Directions in CER
The IOM 100 Priorities and AHRQ 14 Priority Conditions and Populations		 Thomas W. Concannon, PhD and Faculty panel 114 West