Section outline

  • Lecture: Observational Designs and Studies of Diagnostic Tests

    Format: In-class lecture

    Topic: Review common study designs, discuss how to choose what's right for your research question; also describe studies of diagnostic tests.

    Faculty: Warren Browner, MD MPH

    Location:  MB-Genentech Hall 106, Byers Auditorium

    Faculty Bio: Dr. Warren Browner is CEO  of California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), a Senior Scientist in the CPMC Research Institute, and Professor (adjunct) of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at UCSF.  He previously was Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at UCSF; Chief of General Internal Medicine and Acting Chief of the Medical Service at the San Francisco VA, and Vice President, Academic Affairs at CPMC.  He received an A.B. from Harvard, an M.D. from UCSF, and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from Berkeley; he completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in clinical epidemiology at UCSF. He has been a member of panels for the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the Food and Drug Administration, and the California Hospital Association’s Hospital Quality Institute. He is the author of Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research, a co-author of Designing Clinical Research, and was the Executive Editor of the American Journal of Medicine.  He received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCSF Academic Senate in 1988; was one of UCSF’s 125 Distinguished Employees in 1989; and one of 150 Distinguished Alumni of UCSF in 2015. He serves on the Board of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and is the Immediate Past-Chair of the Board of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. He has lived in San Francisco since 1975, when he moved here to attend medical school.