Kay Dickersin

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Full Name	Kay Dickersin
Occupation	Researcher
Date Of Birth	Nov 10, 1951(1951-11-10)
Age	73
Birthplace	Philadelphia
Country	United States
Horoscope	Scorpio

Kay Dickersin Biography

Kay Dickersin is one of the most popular and richest Researcher who was born on November 10, 1951 in Philadelphia, United States. When she was in Fullerton College, and through her biology classes, Dickersin was introduced to an area of study called epidemiology which she admired because it combines science and the social sphere and is based on experiments (clinical tests). Also during the latter part of the 1970s, she believed that chances for women in research labs were not as plentiful. Both of these factors led her to shift her research fields toward public health which she believed to be a field she believes is more welcoming to women. Dickersin began her studies in the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in

1979. She focused on clinical trials. Curtis L. Meinert became her advisor. Her postgraduate education was cut short after the family relocated to Boston for four years in 1981, so that her husband could go to medical school. In this time, she worked with two mentors who were influential, Thomas C. Chalmers and Sir Iain Chalmers, and became fascinated by research synthesis and related biases. After returning to Baltimore to finish her PhD in the field of clinical trials, as well as research that was directly connected to bias in publication. The research she conducted in her PhD research paper, “Publication and the Meta-analysis of Clinical Trials,” was the first work in the Department to utilize the concept where a collection of related research papers is joined by connecting text instead of the usual concept of a standalone document that has chapters.

After she completed the requirements for her PhD during 1989. Dickersin was transferred towards her current position at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine in Baltimore at first into the Department of Ophthalmology and later to the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. After 1998, the doctor was transferred towards Brown University School of Medicine which she founded the Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence-Based Healthcare. She was offered the position of director of the Center for Clinical Trials at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and was changed in 2014 to become the Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis.

Over the course of her career, Dickersin served on a variety of federal advisory committees, for example, she was appointed by President Clinton to the National Cancer Advisory Board (1994-2000). Internationally, she was instrumental in starting the World Health Organization’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) and served as Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Group from 2005-2008 when it was disbanded. She has also served on numerous Institute of Medicine and National Research Council committees, which include for example: The Vaccine Safety Committee (1992-3); Committee to Advise the Department of Defense on its FY 1993 Breast Cancer Program (1993); Committee to Study the Reimbursement of Routine Patient Care Costs for Medicare Patients Enrolled in Clinical Trials (1998-9); Committee to Assess the System for Protecting Human Research Subjects (Advisory Consultant) (2001-2); Committee on the Review of Evidence on High Clinical Value Services (2005-7); Committee on Comparative Effectiveness Research Prioritization (2009); Committee for the Handling Missing Data in Clinical Trials (2009–10); Committee on Standards for Systematic Reviews of Clinical Effectiveness Research (2009–11).

In 2003, Dickersin initiated a coalition of consumer and health advocacy groups (later named Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare or CUE. The idea behind CUE was to bring together consumer groups, who traditionally have not worked together, to form a professional organization for learning and networking. In addition to serving these functions, CUE helps scientist groups to identify consumers for meaningful engagement in research and on advisory and guideline panels. As of 2019, CUE is directed by Dr. Janice Bowie at Johns Hopkins.

In 1986, a year after she resumed her PhD research, Dickersin was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer. This led to her forming an organization to support breast cancer, Arm-in-Arm, with Marsha Oakley. It also led to her involvement with the national and international consumer advocacy , including as the founder mom for the National Breast Cancer Coalition in 1991. The papers she wrote about the beginning in the NBCC are located at the Schlesinger Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Being the sole researcher who was on the Board of Directors of the NBCC she initiated the series of “teach- ins” for the Board intended to introduce Board participants to basic concepts of biology and epidemiology which they’d have to know to contribute in the field of research. The faculty of teaching comprised Francis Collins and others. The project was expanded in 1995 into Project LEAD, a flagship science education program provided by NBCC to consumers and advocates, and continues to be active in 2014. Her long-standing support of the involvement of patients and consumers in the process of research is evident in her involvement with her involvement in the Department of Defense (DoD) Breast Cancer Programme.

Kay Dickersin Net Worth

Kay Dickersin is one of the richest Researcher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kay Dickersin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dickersin’s formal academic as well as research education spans the fundamental clinical, public, and health sciences. Dickersin completed her undergraduate degree from Bennington College situated in Bennington, Vermont, planning to major in art. After two years, she changed to a college for undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated with an undergraduate degree and a Master of Arts and a Master of Arts in Zoology (cell biology) at the UC Berkeley, in 1974 and 1975 respectively. She was awarded an PhD in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1989. In her undergraduate years she was awarded the Howard Hughes Fellowship in Medical Research in the year 1971. Moreover, as part of her PhD research, she was awarded the NIH traineeship.

Her research career has covered a range of areas of clinical trials as well as systematic studies of trials. She has conducted clinical trials. For instance, she was the principal investigator for the two multicenter federally-funded randomized studies, The data centre for Ischemic Ophthalmia Decompression Trial (IONDT) and the Surgical Treatments Outcomes Project for Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding (STOP-DUB). Dickersin began to be intrigued by systematic reviews around the late 1980s, focusing on the issue of finding all relevant research related to an area. Her initial research was focused on the issue of bias in publications and the difficulty of locating the research literature on clinical trials However, her subsequent research has examined how the selective nature of outcomes reporting could distort the knowledge of clinical trials. She has also been a part of the development and implementation of “fixes” related to these issues, with the aim of improving the integrity of research. For instance, she helped in the development of registry of clinical trials and has facilitated public access to research findings, and the creation of the Cochrane Collaboration in 1993.

The US Cochrane Center coordinated the development of Cochrane’s Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) from 1994 to 2005, which was then turned over to The Cochrane Library publisher for further development and maintenance. Dickersin’s papers related to the Cochrane Collaboration are at the National Library of Medicine.

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