General Internal Medicine

Lesley H. Curtis, PhD

Professor in Population Health Sciences
Professor in Medicine
Interim Executive Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Chair in the Department of Population Health Sciences
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute
Campus mail 215 Morris Street, Suite 210, Durham, NC 27701
Phone (919) 681-6709
Email address lesley.curtis@duke.edu

Dr. Curtis is a health services researcher who oversees a portfolio of projects that use observational data to address questions related to clinical and comparative effectiveness, pharmacoepidemiology, health care delivery, and epidemiological trends across a broad array of clinical conditions and clinical care settings. An expert in the use of Medicare claims data for health services and clinical outcomes research, she has led the linkage of Medicare claims with several large clinical registries and epidemiological cohort studies including the Framingham Heart Study and the Cardiovascular Health Study. 

Dr Curtis directs the Center for Pragmatic Health Systems Research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and leads the Distributed Research Network Operations Center for PCORI’s National Clinical Research Network (PCORnet), working with health systems and patient networks to develop a harmonized data infrastructure for robust observational and interventional research.

Areas of expertise: Health Services Research and Health Policy

 

Education and Training

  • Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2000

Grants

Publications

Clough, JD, Martin, SS, Navar, AM, Lin, L, Hardy, NC, Rogers, U, and Curtis, LH. "Association of Primary Care Providers' Beliefs of Statins for Primary Prevention and Statin Prescription." Journal of the American Heart Association 8, no. 3 (February 2019): e010241-null.

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30681391
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Simon, GE, Richesson, R, Weinfurt, K, Hernandez, AF, and Curtis, LH. "Statistical Code for Clinical Research Papers." Ann Intern Med 170, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 80-null.

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30596873
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Raman, SR, Brown, JS, Curtis, LH, Haynes, K, Marshall, J, Pawloski, PA, and Platt, R. "Cancer Screening Results and Follow-up Using Routinely Collected Electronic Health Data: Estimates for Breast, Colon, and Cervical Cancer Screenings." Journal of General Internal Medicine (October 22, 2018). (Letter)

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30350029
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Al-Khatib, SM, Stevenson, WG, Ackerman, MJ, Bryant, WJ, Callans, DJ, Curtis, AB, Deal, BJ, Dickfeld, T, Field, ME, Fonarow, GC, Gillis, AM, Granger, CB, Hammill, SC, Hlatky, MA, Joglar, JA, Kay, GN, Matlock, DD, Myerburg, RJ, and Page, RL. "2017 AHA/ACC/HRS guideline for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: Executive summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society." Heart Rhythm 15, no. 10 (October 2018): e190-e252.

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29097320
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Al-Khatib, SM, Stevenson, WG, Ackerman, MJ, Bryant, WJ, Callans, DJ, Curtis, AB, Deal, BJ, Dickfeld, T, Field, ME, Fonarow, GC, Gillis, AM, Granger, CB, Hammill, SC, Hlatky, MA, Joglar, JA, Kay, GN, Matlock, DD, Myerburg, RJ, and Page, RL. "2017 AHA/ACC/HRS guideline for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society." Heart Rhythm 15, no. 10 (October 2018): e73-e189.

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29097319
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Dinan, MA, Curtis, LH, Setoguchi, S, and Cheung, WY. "Advanced imaging and hospice use in end-of-life cancer care." Supportive Care in Cancer : Official Journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer 26, no. 10 (October 2018): 3619-3625.

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29728843
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Kusumoto, FM, Bailey, KR, Chaouki, AS, Deshmukh, AJ, Gautam, S, Kim, RJ, Kramer, DB, Lambrakos, LK, Nasser, NH, and Sorajja, D. "Systematic review for the 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS guideline for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society." Heart Rhythm 15, no. 10 (October 2018): e253-e274.

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29097318
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Austin, TR, Wiggins, KL, Blackshear, C, Yang, Y, Benjamin, EJ, Curtis, LH, Sotoodehnia, N, Correa, A, and Heckbert, SR. "Atrial fibrillation in an African-American cohort: The Jackson Heart Study." Clinical Cardiology 41, no. 8 (August 17, 2018): 1049-1054.

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29968356
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Raman, SR, Bush, C, Greiner, M, Smerek, MM, and Curtis, LH. "Electronic health records (EHR) vs Medicare claims data: Comparing the relative completeness of non-fatal outcomes in a linked cohort.": WILEY, August 1, 2018.

Scholars@Duke

Raman, SR, Curtis, LH, Temple, R, Andersson, T, Ezekowitz, J, Ford, I, James, S, Marsolo, K, Mirhaji, P, Rocca, M, Rothman, RL, Sethuraman, B, Stockbridge, N, Terry, S, Wasserman, SM, Peterson, ED, and Hernandez, AF. "Leveraging electronic health records for clinical research." American Heart Journal 202 (August 2018): 13-19.

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29802975
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