Sharon-Lise Normand, Ph.D., is
Professor of Health Care Policy (Biostatistics)
in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
and Professor in
the Department of Biostatistics at the
Harvard School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the development
of statistical
methods for health services and outcomes
research, primarily using Bayesian approaches, including causal
inference, provider profiling,
item response theory analyses, latent variables
analyses, multiple informants analyses, and evaluation of medical
devices in randomized
and non-randomized settings.
Professor Normand serves
on several task forces for the American
Heart Association and the American College
of Cardiology, was a consultant to the US
Food and Drug Administration’s
Circulatory System Devices Advisory Panel
after serving a four-year term on the panel,
is a member of the Medicare Evidence Development
and Coverage Advisory Committee, and is
Director of Mass-DAC, a data coordinating
center that monitors the quality of all adult
cardiac surgeries and coronary interventions
in all Massachusetts’ acute
care hospitals.
Professor Normand has served
on several editorial boards including Biometrics,
Statistics in Medicine, Health Services
and Outcomes Research Methodology, Psychiatric
Services, and Cardiovascular Quality and
Outcomes. She was the 2010 President of
the Eastern North American Region of the
International Biometrics Society and is Vice Chair of
the Patient Centered Outcomes Research
Institute’s
Methodology Committee.
Professor Normand earned
her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University
of Toronto, holds a Masters of Science
as well as a Bachelor of Science degree
in Statistics, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship
in Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical
School. She is a Fellow of the American
Statistical Association, a Fellow of
the American College of Cardiology, a Fellow
of the American Heart Association, and
an Associate of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. |
