| Date | Speakers | Seminar Title |
| Sep 27 |
Professor Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Department of Population Medicine |
Instrumental Variable Analysis and Interrupted Times Series Analysis: You Can’t Fix by Adjustment What You Bungled by Design |
| October 11 |
Associate Physician Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School
Research Fellow at the Division of Endocrinology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School |
Canary: A Natural Language Processing Platform for Clinicians and Researchers |
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Monday, October 16 *Special Seminar Date* 9:00 a.m. – 10: a.m. Light breakfast will be served |
Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor Harvard University |
Simplifying Matching Methods for Causal Inference |
| October 25 |
Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine Harvard Medical School |
Clinical vs. Machine-Learning Algorithms to Predict Cancer Stage Using Claims Data for Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy |
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November 29 (Conference Room 1) |
Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
A System Dynamics Model for Understanding Long-Term Trends in Routine Population Screening |
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December 6 (Conference Room 1) |
Assistant in Medicine Director of Trauma Research Boston Children's Hospital Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School |
The Effect of Legislation on Motor Vehicle and Firearm Injuries in the U.S. |
| Tuesday, December 12 *Special Seminar Date* |
Deputy Associate Director of the Healthcare Delivery Research Program National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences |
Cancer Care Delivery Research – Why It Matters |
| January 10 |
Fellow, Harvard Medical School Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care |
The effect of an incident diabetes diagnosis on contraception prescribing |
| January 24 |
Pierantonio Russo, MD, FCPP, FAAP Chief Medical Officer BehaveCare
Suggested Reading: "Health Care Efficiency: Measuring the Cost Associated with Quality" |
The Evolution of the Health Insurance Industry in the USA: From Indemnity to Value Base and Artificial Intelligence |
| February 28 |
General Internist, Massachusetts General Hospital |
Policies to Address Health Care Spending and Value |
| March 21 |
Pari V. Pandharipande, MD, MPH Director, MGH Institute for Technology Assessment Associate Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School Radiologist, Abdominal Imaging Massachusetts General Hospital |
***This seminar has been postponed to (6/20/18) due to inclement weather *** The Role of Imaging in Decision-Making: Insights Gained from Decision Science |
| March 28 |
Fellow, Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Health Policy and Insurance Research |
*Rescheduled to 6/6/18* The Intensity of Care at the End-of-Life in Women with Breast Cancer |
| April 11 |
Fellow, Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Health Policy and Insurance Research |
(Un)affordability of anticancer drugs and the need to set priorities based on value measures |
| April 25 |
Assistant Professor Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Division of Chronic Disease Across the Lifecourse |
Contextual Factors and Health: Current Epidemiologic Approaches and Future Directions in Mobile Health Technology |
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May 9 |
Kristina Henderson Lewis, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor Epidemiology & Prevention General Surgery Implementation Science Wake Forest School of Medicine |
Sweetening the Deal: Expanding the Use Case for EHR's with Patient -Reported Sugary Beverage Consumption |
| May 23 |
Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Department of Population Medicine |
Member Uptake of Insurer Strategies to Improve the Value of Diabetes Care: mHealth and Consumer-Directed Health Plans |
| June 6 |
Fellow, Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Health Policy and Insurance Research |
The Intensity of Care at the End-of-Life in Women with Breast Cancer |
| June 20 |
Pari V. Pandharipande, MD, MPH Director, MGH Institute for Technology Assessment Associate Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School Radiologist, Abdominal Imaging Massachusetts General Hospital |
The Role of Imaging in Decision-Making: Insights Gained from Decision Science |