Biography
Dr. Stephen Lyman is Associate Professor in the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness in the Department of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and an assistant scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in the Foster Center for Clinical Outcome Research. Dr. Lyman received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. Prior to that, he earned an M.S.P.H. degree in epidemiology the University of South Florida. After finishing his PhD, Dr. Lyman conducted sports injury epidemiology research at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama and subsequently conducted highway safety research at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in Arlingon, Virginia. His expertise is in large database analysis, repeated measures analysis, sports injury prevention research, and surgical trial development. Dr. Lyman’s interests include studying outcomes and safety pertaining to common orthopedic procedures and identifying disparities in access to appropriate orthopedic surgical care.
