John Bridges, PhD
John F P Bridges, PhD is a professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Surgery within the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Bridges received his PhD in Economics from the City University of New York Graduate Center and prior to joining OSU he was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health within University of Heidelberg School of Medicine, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics within the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has previously held positions within Department of Economics within the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and the Center for Health Economics, Research and Evaluation (CHERE) in Australia. His research promotes the translation and implementation of advances in medicine through informed decision making. Dr. Bridges is an international leader in advancing and applying methods to promote a greater understanding of the preferences of patients and other stakeholders in medicine.
Guy Brock, PhD
Guy Brock, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Deputy Director of the Center for Biostatistics at The Ohio State University. He is also the Director of the Biostatistics Resource at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Deputy Director of the Biostatistics Shared Resource of the James Graham Brown Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has collaborated extensively with clinical, basic, and population science investigators and taken leadership roles in biostatistics oversight of program project awards including P20, P30, U19, and the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Core of OSU’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications as author / co-author with collaborators in birth defects, transplantation, liver disease, cancer, and community acquired pneumonia. His main areas of methodological research include statistical bioinformatics (cluster validation, data integration, missing value imputation and classification for high-throughput data) and survival analysis (competing risks and multistate models) which has been funded by the NIH.
Jordan Cloyd, MD
Dr Jordan Cloyd is a surgical oncologist who cares for patients with gastrointestinal, hepatopancreatobiliary, neuroendocrine, and peritoneal surface malignancies. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania and attended medical school at the University of California San Francisco. He completed a general surgery residency at Stanford University and a complex general surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His research interests focus on clarifying optimal multimodality therapies and individualizing treatment strategies for patients advanced with gastrointestinal cancers.
Courtney Collins, MD, MS
Dr. Courtney Collins is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Ohio State University Medical Center primarily based at OSU East. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA and went on to medical school at New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY. She received her surgical training at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, MA where she was accepted into the Surgical Research Scholars program. During her two years of dedicated research time as a Surgical Research Fellow she also received a Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Following residency, she completed a yearlong Advanced GI/ Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Her research is focused on improving both clinical outcomes and quality of care for older adults with surgical pathology.
Emily Huang, MD, MEd.
Dr. Huang is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, and a core member of the Surgical Education Team in the Department of Surgery. She completed her undergraduate degree at Princeton University and her medical doctorate at Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She trained in general surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and during that time also obtained a master’s degree in Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at the University of Chicago prior to joining the faculty at the Ohio State University.
Dr. Huang’s clinical interests in colorectal surgery include inflammatory bowel disease and complex decision-making processes for patients with benign and malignant colorectal disease. Her research interests in surgical education center on the development of tools for improving intraoperative teaching and feedback, utilizing her expertise in qualitative research methodologies.
Clara Lee, MD, MPP, FACS
Dr. Clara Lee is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon and health services researcher at The Ohio State University. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a Medical Degree from Yale School of Medicine. She completed residency in general surgery at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and residency in plastic surgery at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Lee’s clinical practice is focused on cancer reconstruction and microsurgery. Her research is devoted to understanding and improving how patients with cancer make decisions about their treatments. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Pelotonia Foundation, the Plastic Surgery Foundation, and the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation.
Ko Un “Clara” Park, MD
Dr. Park is a breast surgical oncologist who specializes in the multidisciplinary treatment of breast cancer patients and oncoplastic operations, including nipple-sparing mastectomy. In addition to her clinical work, she is an assistant professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include improving patient outcomes through clinical trials, molecular genomic testing for breast cancer, and outcomes research including optimizing pain control and opioid use after breast surgery. She is also interested in improving the education process of future surgeons and trainees in surgical oncology. Dr. Park has co-authored many articles in well-respected publications, including Annals of Surgical Oncology, Journal of the American College of Surgeons and Journal of Surgical Oncology.
Timothy Pawlik, MD, MPH, PhD
Dr. Pawlik received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Pawlik completed surgical training at the University of Michigan Hospital and spent two years at the Massachusetts General Hospital as a surgical oncology research fellow. He then went on for advanced training in surgical oncology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Dr. Pawlik’s main clinical interests include alimentary tract surgery, with a special interest in hepatic, pancreatic and biliary diseases.
Benjamin Poulose, MD
Benjamin K. Poulose, MD, MPH is a Professor of Surgery with clinical and research interests in Abdominal Core Health. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Poulose completed his surgical training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and fellowship training in abdominal wall reconstruction, interventional endoscopy, and minimally invasive surgery at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. Dr. Poulose co-leads the Americas Hernia Society Quality Collaborative, which has several ongoing research and quality improvement initiatives involving patients, hospitals, surgeons, industry, the United States Food and Drug Administration, and the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Carmen Quatman, MD, PhD
Dr. Quatman is an orthopaedic surgeon with fellowship training in geriatric orthopaedic trauma. She completed her MD and PhD degrees at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships at The Ohio State University and Cincinnati Children’s. Dr. Quatman is a surgeon-scientist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center with a focus on musculoskeletal injury prevention and surgical outcomes across the aging spectrum.
Heena Santry, MD, MS
Dr. Santry is an acute care surgeon at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Vice-Chair for Health Services Research and Director, Center for Surgical Health Assessment, Research, & Policy (SHARP). She is a multi-modal health services researcher who studies emergency general surgery structures, processes, and outcomes. She is funded by the AHRQ to study the impact of the dissemination of acute care surgery nationally. Dr. Santry’s bibliography can be found here.
Scott Strassels, PharmD, PhD
Scott Strassels, PharmD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and the Scientific Director for the Center for Surgical Health Assessment, Research, & Policy (SHARP). He completed his Bachelor’s and PharmD degrees from the University of Arizona, his PhD in health outcomes research and policy and pharmacoeconomics research fellowship at the University of Washington, and acute pain outcomes fellowship at the Tufts Medical Center. He is a health economics and outcomes researcher who studies the structures, processes, and outcomes related to pain, palliative care, and end of life. Dr. Strassels’ bibliography can be found here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Strassels+S%5Bau%5D).