Dena Bravata
is a health services researcher in Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University School
of Medicine, with extensive experience in quantitative methods for evidence synthesis and a Staff
Physician in Internal Medicine at the VA Palo Alto Health Care system. She is currently the Project
Director for the UCSF-Stanford EPC project to create a comprehensive evidence report on the use of
information technologies and decision support systems for bioterrorism. The evidence report will be
published in April 2002 but has already received favorable attention from policy-makers. It is
currently under review by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine Committee on
Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism as they formulate their recommendations for priorities
for future research funding and prepare their report on syndromal surveillance systems. Dr. Bravata
has extensive experience using advanced methods of meta-analysis. She performed the most comprehensive
meta-analysis of quality of life, alcohol use, and employment among liver transplant recipients
published to date. For this project she used a variety of meta-analytic methods including sign tests,
standardized mean differences, odds ratios and functional status outcomes. Dr. Bravata has also used
Bayesian methods and generalized least square techniques, calculated summar reciever-operator-characteristic
curves, meta-ANOVA and meta-regression techniques.
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