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Dr. Robert Platt

Dr. Platt has been the leader of the Methods team of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (DSEN-CNODES) since its inception. In this role he has led a methods research and training program for CNODES, and has participated as methods liaison (senior methods author) in several CNODES studies.

Dr. Platt received his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington in 1996, and has been on faculty at 91社区 since then. His research interests are in statistical methods and applications for administrative-data pharmacoepidemiology and perinatal epidemiology, and in methods for causal inference from epidemiologic studies. His methodologic interests are in marginal structural models for analyses of large administrative-data cohorts, in particular with regard to specification and optimization of the propensity score and inverse probability weights.

Dr. Platt was the recipient of the Prix d鈥橢xcellence in 2005 from the Quebec Foundation for Research on Children鈥檚 Diseases, and holds a Chercheur-national (National research scholar) award from the Fonds de recherche en sant茅 du Qu茅bec. He is principal investigator on a Foundation grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a Discovery grant Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, and co-investigator/subcontractor on multiple CIHR and NIH grants. He is Associate Editor of Statistics in Medicine, The International Journal of Biostatistics, American Journal of Epidemiology, and the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Dr. Platt has published over 280 articles, one book, and several book chapters.

Dr. Platt鈥檚 research in pharmacoepidemiology has two axes.听 His primary interest is statistical methods and applications for administrative-data pharmacoepidemiology, and in methods for causal inference from epidemiologic studies. His methodologic interests are in marginal structural models for analyses of big-data administrative-data cohorts, in particular with regard to specification and optimization of the propensity score and inverse probability weights.听听 His other research axis links his expertise in pharmacoepidemiology with his ongoing program in perinatal epidemiology, to study the long-term effects of treatments mothers receive during pregnancy on both mothers and children. As the inaugural Albert Boehringer I Chair, Dr. Platt will continue his work in these areas and direct 91社区鈥檚 new academic concentrations in pharmacoepidemiology.