James O’Malley, PhD is Professor of Biostatistics at The Dartmouth Institute and the Department of Biomedical Data Science at the Geisel School of Medicine. He will be giving his main talk from 9:00-10:30 AM on Friday April 20 at the Center for Health Care Research and Policy at MetroHealth Medical Center, entitled “A précis of key types of social network analyses and recent applications involving physician networks” (PDF of slides | PDF article on social network methods).
We will also hold a workshop session over lunch from 12-1 on Friday April 20 in Rammelkamp R219 at Metro (view PDF), where interested faculty, staff and students can hear more about some of James’ work in comparative effectiveness research, health services research and other areas, and talk about some of their own work.
James’ methodological interests encompass statistical inference for social networks, comparative effectiveness research including causal inference for both randomized and observational studies, Bayesian statistics, and multivariate hierarchical models. His subject matter research interests include the relationship between health and social networks, evaluation/estimation of variations in health quality and outcomes, vascular surgery, cardiology, shared decision making and risk communication with patients, and evaluation of medical devices. Specific research projects are typically motivated by problems encountered in his collaborative work with physicians, sociologists, health economists, health services researchers, epidemiologists and others.
James is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his research and service to the academic community, including the Mid-Career Excellence Award from the American Statistical Association’s Health Policy Statistics Section.