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.

Contact information:

Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD, MPH
Chief, Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
Department of Public Health
The Livingston Farrand Associate Professor of Public Health
Tel: 646-962-8044
Fax: 646-962-0281
lac2021@med.cornell.edu

Mailing Address:
Weill Medical College - Department of Public Health
Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
402 East 67th Street, Box 74
New York, NY 10065
Phone: 646-962-8044
Fax: 646-962-0281