Our staff expertise includes medical, pharmaceutical, biostatistical, epidemiological, study design, data analysis, information systems, and data management disciplines.

• Investigators experienced with observational studies using large administrative databases, and with clinical trials, are also clinical specialists in pharmacy, end-stage renal disease, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, clinical cardiology, diabetes, geriatrics, dementia, and pediatric nephrology, with additional expertise in health policy and epidemiology.
• Biostatisticians and epidemiologists are experts in study design, data analysis, and data interpretation, with experience and versatility across a wide spectrum of theoretical and applied analytic issues using sophisticated biostatistical methods and epidemiological techniques.
• Information systems specialists bring skills central to data management efforts across all database systems and machine platforms, including expertise in large computer system and network design, installation, and management; programming and application development; database system development; data management; data merging; data quality assurance; data warehousing; and Web development, including online data retrieval systems.
• Publication specialists work closely with scientific and technical staff to plan and design poster and slide presentations, data reports, journal articles, and other communications. Publication group members write and edit text, create and format tables and figures, and oversee production.