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OTHER AREAS OF RESEARCH
Tara Bishop, MD
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medicine
Email: tlfernan@med.cornell.edu
Tel: (646) 962-8117
I would be thrilled to mentor medical residents and fellows. The goal of my research is to improve the
safety, quality, and efficiency of health care in the U.S. I specifically look at the problems of medical
errors in the outpatient setting, overuse of health care services, and inefficiencies of outpatient care. I am
particularly interested in how payment mechanisms, malpractice fears, and organizational systems affect
these problems. I use a number of methods in my research including secondary data analysis, surveys,
randomized trials of interventions, and qualitative techniques.
Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research, Department of Public Health
Email: lac2021@med.cornell.edu
Tel: (646) 962-8044
Dr. Casalino studies the organization of physician practices, the use of organized processes to improve the
quality of care and to control costs by physicians and hospitals, physician relations with hospitals and
health plans, and healthcare policy. Examples of projects: (1) national survey of medical groups to obtain
data on group structure, IT, and policy environment; (2) review of medical records in 23 medical groups
to determine frequency of physicians’ failing to inform patients of clinically significant abnormal
outpatient test results; (3) large national survey to estimate the cost to physician practices of dealing with
health plans.
Recent Residents Mentored: Lhasa Ray
Curtis L. Cole, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Public Health
Chief Information Officer
Email: ccole@med.cornell.edu
Tel: (212) 746-0483
I have supervised several students and residents who have successfully completed projects in medical
informatics. Topics of specific interest are evaluation of electronic medical records; terminology and
terminology servers; clinical research management systems; data warehousing; decision support; quality
and safety reporting; patient portals; semantic web; and social networking. I can also suggest potential
collaborative projects with other faculty. I can assist residents trying to access data for projects.
Gary Deng, MD, PhD
Associate Member and Attending Physician
MSKCC, Integrative Medicine Service
Email: dengg@mskcc.org
Tel: (646) 888‐0841
Clinical trials of complementary therapies in cancer supportive care include use of acupuncture and
botanical agents. Trainees will learn the fundamentals of complementary therapies and design of clinical
studies. They will assist in the conduct of rigorously designed clinical trials to evaluate the safety and
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