Comparative Effectiveness & Outcomes Research

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This division pursues comparative effectiveness and outcomes research related to medications, medical devices, procedures and healthcare delivery interventions. Faculty and staff in the division have advanced training in health services research, pharmacoepidemiology, and decision science methods. The division team works collaboratively with clinical researchers who have expertise in a variety of medical and surgical specialties. 

Examples of areas of faculty research include comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of preventing, diagnosing and treating chronic and acute infectious diseases; cardiovascular medical device safety monitoring and evidence synthesis; evaluation of total joint replacement outcomes using registry and administrative data; pharmacoepidemiology and comparative effectiveness of diabetes medications; and comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatments for substance use disorder. 

Affiliated Programs

Patient Centered Comparative Outcomes Research

The program initiates, conducts and collaborates on outcomes research and quality of care research within the interventional medicine and device context. The program utilizes the hospital and network for these studies in order to generate new knowledge about medical technologies and clinical strategies and to improve the quality and efficiency of care. The program has access to a number of datasets such as Medicare, New York State comprehensive discharge data, SEER-Medicare data for various cancer interventions, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data as well as international registry data for various interventional procedures. Currently, there are six clinical departments actively engaged in research with over 100 manuscripts published in the last 5 years.

  • Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery program
  • Department of Vascular Surgery program
  • Department of Urology program
  • Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery program
  • Department of Neurosurgery program
  • Department of Radiology

Separately, the program has worked with outside collaborators on interventional outcomes research with outside collaborators which has resulted in over 55 publications in the past five years.

For selected device specific publications, please visit the MDEpiNet Claims Based Research Initiative page.

Collaborations

Collaborating with Manufacturers: In the past two years we have also established productive partnerships with both J&J and Medtronic Inc. There is on-going discussion with ‘Titan Spine’ and ‘ABIOMED’ to establish collaborations.

Other collaborating partners interested in devicesThe Center for Advanced Digestive Care at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Centeris one of the nation's leading multidisciplinary centers for the diagnosis and treatment of digestive diseases. The Center’s mission is to provide optimal patient care for all aspects of digestive disease in one convenient and comprehensive environment. The Center is very interested in supporting and advancing the outcomes research.

The Minimally Invasive New Technologies Program (MINT) is an innovative collaboration between New York-Presbyterian Hospital and the Weill Cornell Medical College. Through the MINT program, clinicians and engineers develop technologies that advance minimally invasive surgery at New York-Presbyterian and beyond. The center requires support for outcomes research and understanding the regulatory and payer environment for devices in the USA and internationally.

Current Research Highlights

Cost-Effectiveness of Annual Prostate MRI and Potential MRI-Guided Biopsy After Prostate-Specific Antigen Test Results

December 6, 2023

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common non-cutaneous cancer among men in the US and the second-highest cause of cancer deaths among men. The standard for detecting PCa is transrectal ultrasonography, often associated with post-biopsy complications and...

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Dr. Sean Murphy Receives R01 to Study HIV Care Among Trans Women

December 4, 2023

Dr. Sean Murphy, professor of population health sciences and ...

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Initiation of Hepatitis C Treatment Low Among Medicaid Recipients

August 4, 2023

While there are highly effective treatments for the hepatitis C virus (HCV), only 1 in 5 Medicaid enrollees diagnosed with HCV started treatment, according to a retrospective study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University’s Ithaca campus. The findings revealed that treatment uptake rates were even lower among people under 30, women, Hispanic and Asian individuals, as well as people who inject drugs. The research underscores the urgent need for public health and...

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Amit Abraham , MD
  • Assistant professor of clinical population health sciences
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Brandon Aden , MD, MPH
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Ann Beeder , MD
  • Associate professor of clinical population health sciences
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Czarina Behrends , PhD, MPH
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Gilbert Botvin
  • Professor Emeritus of Psychology in Population Health Sciences
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Adeel Ajwad Butt
Adeel Ajwad Butt , MS, MB
  • Professor of Population Health Sciences
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David Price Calfee
David Price Calfee , MD, MS
  • Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Professor of Medicine
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Lisa Carter-Harris
  • Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Karima Chaabna
Karima Chaabna , PhD, MSc
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences
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Resmi Ann Charalel
Resmi Ann Charalel , MD
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Cristina Chin
Cristina Chin , LMSW, MPH
  • Research Manager
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Marshall Jay Glesby
Marshall Jay Glesby , MD, PhD
  • Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Professor of Medicine
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Samuel Gutierrez
  • Senior Administrative Specialist
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Ali Jalali , PhD
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Philip Jeng, MS
Philip Jeng , MS
  • Research Project Manager
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Warren Douglas Johnson
Warren Douglas Johnson , MD
  • Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences
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Shashi Kapadia
Shashi Kapadia , MD, MS
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Jared Leff , MS
  • Senior Research Manager
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Jazmine Li , MPH
  • Senior Research Assistant
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Winston Luhur , MPH
  • Research Data Specialist
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Lisa Mandl
Lisa Mandl , MD, MPH
  • Assistant Professor of Research in Population Health Sciences
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Jialin Mao
Jialin Mao , MD, PhD
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Robert G. Marx
Robert G. Marx , MSc, MD
  • Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
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Patrick Mazza
  • Health Data Scientist
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Angelica Meinhofer
Angelica Meinhofer , PhD
  • Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
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Sean Murphy, MA, Ph.D.
Sean Murphy , PhD
  • Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Alvin Mushlin, M.D., ScM
Alvin Mushlin , MD, ScM
  • Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Professor of Medicine
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Jamie Ostroff , PhD, MS
  • Professor of Psychology in Population Health Sciences
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Joseph Pérez
  • Senior Research Assistant
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Bjorn Redfors , MD, PhD
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Danielle Ryan , MPH
  • Research Manager
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Mirella Salvatore
Mirella Salvatore , MD
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Pina Christine Sanelli , MD, MPH
  • Adjunct Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Bruce Schackman , PhD, MBA
  • Executive Vice Chair
  • Saul P. Steinberg Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Director of the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder
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Art Sedrakyan , MD, PhD, ScD
  • Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Professor of Population Health Sciences in Cardiothoracic Surgery
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Meena Seetharaman
Meena Seetharaman
  • Research Assistant
Matthew Simon
Matthew Simon , MD
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Michael Glenn Stewart
Michael Glenn Stewart , MD, MPH
  • Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Bonnie Tse , MPS
  • Communications Manager
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Xinyan Zheng
  • Senior Research Data Analyst
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