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Jerry Avorn, MD Is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical
Promoting Biomedical Innovation and Economic Value: New Models for Reimbursement and Evidence Development Participant Biographies Jerry Avorn, MD is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. An internist, geriatrician, and drug epidemiologist, he studies the intended and adverse effects of prescription drugs, physician prescribing practices, and medication policy. The division he founded and leads comprises physicians, epidemiologists, health policy analysts, statisticians, and computer scientists who work together to analyze the utilization and outcomes of prescription drugs in numerous settings. Dr. Avorn pioneered the “academic detailing” approach to continuing medical education, in which non-commercial, evidence-based information about drugs is provided to doctors through educational outreach programs run by public-sector sponsors. Such programs are now in use in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Dr. Avorn completed his undergraduate training at Columbia University in 1969, received the MD from Harvard Medical School in 1974, and completed a residency in internal medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines and is the author or co-author of over 275 papers in the medical literature on medication use and its outcomes, and of the book, Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs, now in its 11th printing. Robert Epstein, MD is Medco’s president of advanced clinical science and research, and chief clinical research and development officer. Dr. Epstein is responsible for all of Medco’s clinical research initiatives, including the Medco Research Institute™ and the United BioSource Research Divisions. -
Variations in Pill Appearance of Antiepileptic Drugs and the Risk of Nonadherence
ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION ONLINE FIRST Variations in Pill Appearance of Antiepileptic Drugs and the Risk of Nonadherence Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH; Alexander S. Misono, MD, MBA; William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS; Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD; Michael Doherty; Jerry Avorn, MD; Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD Background: Generic prescription drugs are bioequiva- Results: The AEDs dispensed had 37 colors and 4 shapes. lent to brand-name versions but may not have consis- A total of 11 472 patients with nonpersistence were linked tent color or shape, which can cause confusion and lead to 50 050 controls. Color discordance preceded 136 cases to interruptions in medication use. We sought to deter- (1.20%) but only 480 controls (0.97%) (adjusted odds mine whether switching among different-appearing an- ratio [OR], 1.27 [95% CI, 1.04-1.55]). Shape discor- tiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is associated with increased rates dance preceded 18 cases (0.16%) and 54 controls (0.11%) of medication nonpersistence, which can have serious (OR, 1.47 [95% CI, 0.85-2.54]). Within the seizure dis- medical, financial, and social consequences. order diagnosis subgroup, the risk of nonpersistence af- ter changes in pill color was also significantly elevated Methods: We designed a nested case-control study of com- (OR, 1.53 [95%, CI 1.07-2.18]). mercially insured patients in the United States who initi- ated an AED. Cases were patients who became nonpersis- Conclusions: Changes in pill color significantly tent, defined as failure to fill a prescription within 5 days of the elapsed days supplied. -
Aaron Seth Kesselheim Curriculum Vitae
Harvard Medical School Curriculum Vitae Date Prepared: April 28, 2020 Name: Aaron Seth Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H. Office Address: Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 1620 Tremont Street, Suite 3030 Boston, MA 02120 Home Address: 25 Hillcroft Rd Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 Work Phone: (617) 278-0930 Work E-mail: [email protected] Work Website: http://www.drugepi.org/faculty-staff-trainees/faculty/aaron-kesselheim/ Work Fax: (617) 232-8602 Place of Birth: Cherry Hill, NJ Education 1996 A.B. (summa cum History and Science Harvard University, laude) Cambridge, MA 2002 M.D. Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 2002 J.D. (magna cum Law University of Pennsylvania laude) Law School, Philadelphia, PA 2007 M.P.H. Clinical Effectiveness Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Boston, MA Postdoctoral Training 6/02-6/03 Intern Internal Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston, MA 7/03-6/05 Resident Internal Medicine BWH 7/05-6/07 Fellow General Medicine and Health Care BWH / Harvard Medical Policy Research School (HMS) / HSPH, Boston, MA Faculty Academic Appointments 7/07-6/10 Instructor Medicine HMS 7/08- Research Associate Health Policy and Management HSPH 7/10-6/14 Assistant Professor Medicine HMS 7/14-4/19 Associate Professor Medicine HMS 5/19- Professor Medicine HMS 7/14-7/15 Visiting Associate Law Yale Law School Professor of Law 7/16-7/19 Irving S. Ribicoff Law Yale Law School Visiting Associate 1 Professor of Law 7/19-7/20 Sidley Austin-Robert Law Yale Law School D. -
Implications for Patients and Health Policy Speaker Biographies
What Evidence is Essential for New Medical Products? Implications for Patients and Health Policy June 13, 2014 AAAS Headquarters Washington, DC Speaker Biographies Jerry Avorn, M.D. Harvard Medical School Jerry Avorn is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. An internist and drug epidemiologist, he studies the intended and adverse effects of prescription drugs, physician prescribing practices, and medication policy. The division he founded and leads comprises physicians, epidemiologists, health policy analysts, statisticians, and computer scientists who work together to analyze patterns of utilization and outcomes of prescription drugs in numerous settings. Dr. Avorn pioneered the “academic detailing” approach to continuing medical education, in which non-commercial, evidence-based information about drugs is provided to doctors through educational outreach programs run by public-sector sponsors. Such programs are now in use in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe. Dr. Avorn did his undergraduate work at Columbia University in 1969, received the M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1974, and completed a residency in internal medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He has served as a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines and is the author or co-author of over 400 papers in the medical literature on medication use and its outcomes, and of the book, Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs, now in its 11th printing. Robert Ball, M.D., M.P.H, Sc.M. -
Susan Dudek, RD, CDN, BS
Contributors Ryan Lloyd Albritton, MD Robert S. Langer, ScD Resident Physician Institute Professor Diagnostic Radiology Resident Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Radiology Massachusetts Institute of Technology UCSF Medical Center Cambridge, MA University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA Stephen C. Lazarus, MD Professor of Medicine Seth L. Alper, MD, PhD Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School University of California, San Francisco Associate Physician, Department of Medicine San Francisco, CA Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA Benjamin Leader, MD, PhD Senior Resident Physician April W. Armstrong, MD Department of Emergency Medicine Clinical Fellow Brown University Medical School Harvard Combined Dermatology Program, Harvard Medical Rhode Island Hospital School Providence, RI Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital David C. Lewis, MD Boston, MA Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies Ehrin J. Armstrong, MD, MSc Community Health and Medicine Clinical Fellow Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies Department of Medicine Brown University Massachusetts General Hospital Providence, RI Boston, MA Allen Shuyuan Liu, MD Sarah R. Armstrong, MS, DABT Surgical Resident Senior Scientist Department of Surgery Cambridge Environmental Inc. Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cambridge, MA Boston, MA Ramy A. Arnaout, DPhil, MD Eng H. Lo, PhD Clinical Fellow in Pathology Professor, Radiology and Neurology Department -
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