Outcomes and effectiveness research can be defined as the science behind the evaluation of the quality and outcomes of clinical care and interventions.

While research that leads to medical advances is vital, equally important to the field of medicine is discovering how optimal care can best be provided. The mission of the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research is to improve the effectiveness and quality of medical care, both in this country and through programs that reach around the world.

There are many aspects involved with providing effective and high quality care to patients. Among them are identifying how well preventive, diagnostic, and therapuetic interventions work in the real world and who benefits most from them. Others concern revealing disparities and discoving why they exist, developing models to assure that resources are available and are optimally deployed, and medical decision making.

Outcomes and effectiveness researchers are clinicians with advanced training in clinical epidemiology and/or health services research, as well as PhDs with expertise in a related science, including outcomes measurement, quality of care assessment, informatics, and operations resesearch/modeling sciences.

Department Chairman Alvin I. Mushlin, M.D., Sc.M., whose research for many years has focused on the application of decision and cost-effectiveness analysis to the evaluation of clinical policies and medical technologies, is currently serving as interim chief of the Division.

Contact information:

Alvin I. Mushlin, M.D., Sc.M.,
Interim Division Chief
212-746-1269
aim2001@med.cornell.edu

Mailing Address:
Weill Medical College - Department of Public Health
Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
411 East 69th Street, Box 74
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 212-746-1269
Fax: 212-746-8544