Lesley H. Curtis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences in the Duke School of Medicine. A health services researcher by training, Dr. Curtis is an expert in the use of Medicare claims data for health services and clinical outcomes research, and a leader in national data quality efforts. Dr. Curtis serves as co-PI of the FDA’s Sentinel Innovation Center, Co-Investigator of the Data Core for the FDA’s Sentinel Initiative to monitor the safety of FDA-regulated medical products, and Chair of the Data Quality Subcommittee for the National Evaluation System for health Technology (NEST) Coordinating Center that generates real-world evidence for health technology and medical devices. She serves as co-Investigator of the coordinating center for PCORI’s National Clinical Research Network (PCORnet), working with health systems and patient networks to develop a harmonized network infrastructure that leverages health systems and electronic health record data 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
- PCORnet CC - SCOPE 1: Program Management, Collaboration and Coordination
- PCORnet CC - SCOPE 2: Common Data Model Maintenance, Expansion and Linkage
- Collaboratory Resource Coordinating Center for Pragmatic and Implementation Studies for the Management of Pain (PRISM) (U24)
- Unified Program for Therapeutics in Children
- Postdoctoral Training in Cardiovascular Clinical Research
- Addressing Bias from Missing Data in EHR Based Studies of CVD
- Duke CTSA (TL1) Year 5
- Sentinel WO WO2013 Mod #7 Identification and mitigation of structured EHR source data mapping issues (DI3)
- Sentinel WO2012 Mod #6 Master Plan for Integration of Innovation Technologies and IC Collaboration Activities (Year 3)
- Sentinel WO WO2000.2 Mod #6 Maintenance of the Innovation Center (IC)
- Evaluating fitness-for-use of Electronic Health Records in Clinical Research
- NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory - Coordinating Center
- NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory - Coordinating Center
- Using the NIH Collaboratory Distributed Research Network to Identify and Characterize ADRD patients
- 1/2 IMPACt-LBP CCC
- A Patient-Centered Approach for Addressing Access to Care to Improve Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients
- Representation of Unstructured Data Across Common Data Models (DI2)