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Eckman, Mark MD
Division: General Internal Medicine
Title: Director, Division of General Internal Medicine, Director, Center for Clinical Effectiveness
Education: Trinity College, Hartford, CT, BS, 1976; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, MS, 1977; Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, MD, 1981
Training: Internship and Residency, Albany Medical Center Hospital, Albany, NY 1981-1984; Clinical Decision Making Fellowship, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 1984-1986
Clinical Interests: Anticoagulation therapy; atrial fibrillation; venous thromboembolism; thrombosis; evidence-based medicine; testing; screening
Research Interests: Decision analysis; cost-effectiveness analysis; patient-specific decision making; computerized decision support tools; medical informatics; patient-centered care; quality of life; atrial fibrillation; anticoagulation therapy; venous thromboembolism, thrombosis
Recent Publications:
Eckman MH, Rosand J, Knudsen KA, Singer DE, Greenberg SM. Restarting oral anticoagulation after intracranial hemorrhage. Stroke, 35:5e-6e, 2004.
Eckman, MH. Bridging on the River Kwai: The Perioperative Management of Anticoagulation Therapy. Medical Decision Making, 25:370-373, 2005.
Schauer DP, Moomaw C, Wess M, Webb T, Eckman MH. Psychosocial risk factors for adverse outcomes in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation receiving warfarin. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 20:1114-1119, 2005.
Wilson S, Leonard A, Moomaw C, Schneeweiss S, Eckman M. Underuse of Controller Medications Among Children with Persistent Asthma in the Ohio Medicaid Population: Evolving Differences with New Medications. Ambulatory Pediatrics, 5:83-89, 2005.
Johnston JA, Brill-Edwards P, Ginsberg J, Pauker SG, Eckman MH. Cost-effectiveness of low molecular weight heparin in pregnant women with a prior history of venous thromboembolism. American Journal of Medicine. 118:503-514, 2005.
Notes: For the past twenty-one years, I have followed my passion as a general internist and a decision scientist, first as an active member of the Division of Clinical Decision Making at the New England Medical Center (1984-1999) and more recently as director of the Center for Clinical Effectiveness in the Institute for the Study of Health at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center (1999 - present). As both a researcher and a clinician, this environment has supported my interests in combining both clinical and theoretic applications of decision analysis to the care of individual patients and to broader issues of health policy. In particular my methodological interests have included the application of artificial intelligence techniques to decision analysis, the development of patient-specific decision support tools, and the continued study and development of new decision analytic methods. In terms of decision analytic application areas, my interests also extend to more generic issues of health policy planning and cost-effectiveness analyses, attempting to use quantitative methods to help make decisions about the allocation of increasingly scarce health care resources. I also have maintained a special interest in the decision analytic issues surrounding anticoagulation therapy within a variety of clinical situations, including atrial fibrillation, venous thromboembolism, and thrombophilic states. Within our institution in particular and the profession in general, I am also deeply committed to pursuing the continued development and application of computational and information technologies to the practice of medicine and medical education. I believe that the challenges we encounter as both clinicians treating individual patients and as administrators managing and leading systems of care, provide the most fertile soil for interesting research and innovative problem solving. The model we are striving to create at the Institute for the Study of Health is one that balances a portfolio of research projects that on the one hand address the operational and strategic needs of our own institution, but also utilize these real-world challenges and investigations as the nidus for more scholarly work.
Email: mark.eckman@uc.edu
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