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COR Team Members

Director: Jeffrey H. Silber, MD, PhD

Biography

Contact Dr. Silber at:
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3535 Market Street, Suite 1029
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-590-5635

Center for Outcomes Research
Fax: 215-590-2378
E-mail: silber@email.chop.edu


Associate Director: Orit Even-Shoshan, MS

Biography

Contact Orit Even-Shoshan at:
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3535 Market Street, Suite 1029
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-590-2809

Center for Outcomes Research
Fax: 215-590-2378
E-mail: shoshan@email.chop.edu


Faculty: Scott A. Lorch, MD, MSCE

Biography

Contact Dr. Lorch at:
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3535 Market Street, Suite 1029
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-590-1714

Center for Outcomes Research
Fax: 215-590-2378
E-mail: lorch@email.chop.edu


Faculty: Tanguy J. Brachet, PhD

Biography

Contact Dr. Brachet at:
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3535 Market Street, Suite 1029
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-590-5758

Center for Outcomes Research
Fax: 215-590-2378
E-mail: brachet@email.chop.edu


Program Director: Stephanie Smith-Simone, PhD, MPh

Biography

Contact Dr. Smith-Simone at:
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3535 Market Street, Suite 1029
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-590-6895

Center for Outcomes Research
Fax: 215-590-2378
E-mail: smithsimone@email.chop.edu



Research Team

Laura Jill Bressler, BA

bresslerl@email.chop.edu


Laura Bressler is a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in biology with a special focus in health care management and policy. She has worked as a research assistant at the Center for Outcomes Research since 2007.

Corinne Fager, MS

fager@email.chop.edu


Corinne Fager, MS, is a statistical programmer who has worked at the Center for Outcomes Research since 2007. She has a master's degree in applied statistics from Villanova University.

Julia Meurling, MPH

meurling@email.chop.edu


Julia Meurling, MPH, is a project manager for the Obesity and Surgical Outcomes (OBSOS) study. She has a master's of public health degree in epidemiology from Columbia University and her training includes working on the Early Life Factors in Adult Health Study at Columbia and at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene working on West Nile virus surveillance. Her interests include study design, methodology and data collection. Ms. Meurling joined the Center for Outcomes Research in 2006.

Lanyu Mi, MS

mil@email.chop.edu


Lanyu Mi, MS, is a statistical programmer who has worked at the Center for Outcomes Research since 2006. She has a master's degree in statistics.

Richard Ross, MS

ross@email.chop.edu


Richard Ross, MS, a statistical programmer at the Center for Outcomes Research, has a master's degree in biostatistics from Johns Hopkins. He has over 10 years experience as an analyst and statistician on healthcare related studies using Medicare data. Mr. Ross has analyzed large databases of patient and hospital information to construct models predicting mortality, complications and other quality of care measures using diagnostic, physiological and socio-demographic information. He has extensive experience with statistical programming packages and the presentation of results at meetings. He has been at Penn and working with Drs. Silber and Rosenbaum since 1991.

Yun Teng, MS

tengy@email.chop.edu


Yun Teng joined the Center for Outcomes Research in June 2007. She is a statistical programmer focusing on the creation and maintenance of large administrative databases and on statistical modeling. Ms. Teng has a master's degree in statistics from the Montclair State University, NJ.

Yanli Wang, MS

wang@email.chop.edu


Yanli Wang, MS, a statistical programmer, has worked at the Center for Outcomes Research since 2004. She has a master's degree in statistics, and has developed expertise in handling large databases and creating analysis files from raw data.

Hong Zhou, MS

zhou@email.chop.edu


Hong Zhou, MS, has been the systems analyst at the Center for Outcomes Research since 1997. She has a bachelor's degree in engineering, a master's degree in economics and a master's degree in information science management. Her expertise focuses on Unix system administration tasks and database management. She evaluates and chooses hardware and software, and she maintains the reliability of computer systems and improves their efficiency. She also handles very large national databases to support the work of investigators, faculties and research staff on various projects.



Administrative Coordinator

Traci Frank

frank@email.chop.edu


Ms. Frank has served as the administrative coordinator at the Center for Outcomes Research since its inception. Previously, she worked at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.