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<\/p>\nOur speaker series highlights the work of leading clinical researchers in rheumatology and in clinical research methods. The goal of the Boston MCRC is to carry out and disseminate high-level clinical and interdisciplinary research of relevance to rheumatology and musculoskeletal disorders, and continue to train the next generation of researchers in this field.<\/p>\n
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Dr. Frakt’s Presentation Title: A Press Release is Not Enough <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Austin Frakt, PhD is a health economist, professor, and researcher, as well as the creator and co-editor-in-chief of\u00a0The Incidental Economist.\u00a0<\/em> Dr. Dixon’s Presentation Title: TBD<\/p>\n William Dixon, MD qualified from Guy\u2019s and St. Thomas\u2019 Hospitals, London, trained as a rheumatologist in Manchester, UK and has higher degrees from The University of Manchester and McGill University, Montreal. He is a Professor of Digital Epidemiology, Director of the Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis<\/a><\/span> at the University of Manchester and an honorary consultant rheumatologist at Salford Royal Hospital.<\/p>\n His passion is using technology to support clinical care and research to improve patients\u2019 lives. This includes the collection and sharing of research quality data from clinicians, collecting patient-generated data including its integration into electronic health records, and analysis of social media data. Recent digital health studies include the national smartphone study and citizen science experiment Cloudy with a Chance of Pain<\/em><\/a><\/span>, <\/em>remote monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis (REMORA<\/em><\/a><\/span>) which uniquely integrates patient-generated data into the NHS, and Assembling the Data Jigsaw<\/em><\/a><\/span>, a local data integration pilot to use a range of data sources from clinicians and patients in Salford for addressing clinically important questions about arthritis.<\/p>\n Dr. Dixon is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute<\/a><\/span>, is Co-Director of the International Centre for Translational Digital Health<\/a><\/span>, a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Toronto and Melbourne, and is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Our Future Health<\/em><\/a><\/span>, <\/em>an ambitious health study of 5M people in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our speaker series highlights the work of leading clinical researchers in rheumatology and in clinical research methods. The goal of the Boston MCRC is to carry out and disseminate high-level clinical and interdisciplinary research of relevance to rheumatology and musculoskeletal disorders, and continue to train the next generation of researchers in this field. Schedule 2022\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9097,"featured_media":538,"parent":0,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/bostonmcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/bostonmcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/bostonmcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/bostonmcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/bostonmcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/bostonmcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/bostonmcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/535\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/bostonmcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/bostonmcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/bostonmcrc\/files\/2022\/01\/Frakt.jpg\")
Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 from 9:30 – 10:30am EST<\/strong><\/p>\nClick button, use passcode: 6t0nR3$9\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0
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\nHe has an educational background in physics and engineering. After receiving his PhD in statistical and applied mathematics he spent four years at a research and consulting firm conducting policy evaluations for federal health agencies.
\nDr. Frakt is now the Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center (PEPReC) at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at Boston University\u2019s School of Public Health. In addition, he is a Senior Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
\nDr. Frakt is Editor-in-Chief of\u00a0Health Services Research<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and serves on the editorial board of\u00a0The American Journal of Managed Care<\/em><\/a>. He has also served as a member of the\u00a0New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council<\/a>.<\/p>\nProfessor William Dixon<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 from 9:30 – 10:30am EST<\/strong><\/p>\n