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Constantine Gatsonis

Professor:
Community Health and Applied Mathematics
Phone: +1 401 863 9183
gatsonis stat.brown.edu

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1981

Constantine Gatsonis has research interests in Bayesian inference and its applications to problems in biostatistics, medical technology evaluation with emphasis on the clinical evaluation of diagnostic imaging, bioinformatics with emphasis on proteomics, and methodologic aspects of health services and outcomes research.

Biography

Constantine Gatsonis, PhD, is Professor of Medical Science(Biostatistics) and Applied Mathematics and Acting Head of the Biostatics Section of the Department of Community Health. He joined the faculty 1995 and became the founding Director of the Center for Statistical Sciences. Dr. Gatsonis is a leading authority on the design and analysis of clinical trials of diagnostic and screening modalities and has extensive involvement in methodologic research in medical technology assessment and in health services and outcomes research. He is Group Statistician of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN), a NCI funded collaborative group conducting multi-center studies of diagnostic imaging and image-guided therapy for cancer. In his ACRIN work, Dr Gatsonis is the chief statistician of the Digital Mammography Imaging Screening Trial (a national study comparing digital to film mammography) and is also the chief statistician for ACRIN's arm of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST). Dr Gatsonis was the lead statistician of the International Breast MRI Consortium and of the Radiologic Diagnostic Oncology Group (RDOG).

Dr. Gatsonis has served on numerous review and advisory panels, including the HSDG Study Section of the Agency for Health Care Policy Research, panels of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health of FDA, the Commission of Technology Assessment of the American College of Radiology, Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for NINDS and the VA, the Immunization Safety Review Committee of the Institute of Medicine. He is a member of the steering group of the STARD project (Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy), which recently published the first comprehensive checklist for reporting the results of diagnostic test evaluations. He is also co-convenor of the Screening and Diagnostic Tests Methods Working Group of the Cochrane Collaboration and a member of the steering group of the Cochrane Diagnostic Reviews initiative, which is developing the methodologic and organizational infrastructure for the inclusion of systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy in the Cochrane Library.
Dr. Gatsonis is the founding editor-in-chief of Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology and serves as a deputy editor of Academic Radiology and a member of the editorial board of Clinical Trials . Previous editorial experience includes membership of the editorial board of Statistics in Medicine , and Medical Decision Making .

Dr Gatsonis was elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Association for Health Services Research.

Awards

Phi Beta Kappa (1976)
National Research Service Award, National Institute of Mental Health (1986-1988)
Fellow, Association for Health Services Research (1997)
Fellow, American Statistical Association (1998)
Spinoza Visiting Professor, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (June 2003)

AFFILIATIONS

Recent Professional Activities

Review and advisory panels

Institute of Medicine, Immunization Safety Review Committee (2001-2004)

Special Review Panel for CISNET applications (Chair), NCI (2000, 2005)

Center for Devices & Radiological Health, Food & Drug Administration, Consultant/Ad hoc Panel Member, (1997 - 2003)

Commission on Technology Assessment, American College of Radiology (1997-2003)

Data Safety and Monitoring Board, NINDS (1998-2002)

Technical Expert Panels, HCFA/CMS (1999-2004)

Professional leadership and service

Diagnostic and Screening Test Methods Working Group Cochrane Collaboration. Convenor since 1997.

Steering Group, Cochrane Diagnostic Reviews initiative. Co-Editor of CDR Handbook (2003 - present)

RSNA Clinical Trials Methodology Workshop. Co-director(2005 - present)

Steering Committee, STARD (Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Project (2000 - present)

Scientific Program Committee, Eastern Mediterranean. Region of International Biometric Society (2002 - present)

NCI-sponsored Image Guided Intervention Trial Design Methods Workshop. Co-chair (February 2004)

Clinical Evidence Diagnosis Advisory Group, British Medical Journal (Summer 2004)

Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics , Biannual Workshop Series, Carnegie Mellon University. Co-organizer since 1991.

Program and Advisory Committees, International Conference on Health Policy Research (1997-2004)

Editorial positions

Founding Editor in Chief:
Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology (1998 -present)

Editorial Boards:
Academic Radiology (1996 - present)
Clinical Trials (2003 - present)
Bayesian Analysis (2005-present)
Statistics in Medicine (1996-2005)
Medical Decision Making (1999 -2002)

Funded Research


Biostatistics and Data Management Center of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN)
Funded since 1999 by the National Cancer Institute.

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Curriculum Vitae

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