News and Events

We are pleased to welcome Rachel Geyer to The Clear Center as Interim Executive Administrative Director. Rachel Geyer is a research scientist in the Department of Family Medicine. She has extensive experience coordinating and managing research projects at the...

Drs. Pradeep Suri and Patrick Heagerty, working together with a research group based primarily at King's College London, were awarded the 2024 Outstanding Paper Award from the The Spine Journal and the North American Spine Society for the manuscript "The association...

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch to The Clear Center as Associate Director of the Methodology Core. Dr Tarczy-Hornoch is Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education. He is also Chief Data Officer, UW Medicine...

Congratulations to our numerous CLEAR Center faculty and affiliates to their contributions to a manuscript indexed on the pre-print server medRxiv. The paper is titled, "Mortality with concurrent treatment with gabapentin and opioids among people with spine diagnoses...

Congratulations to Patrick Heagerty, PhD, for his recent publication, "Planning stepped wedge cluster randomized trials to detect treatment effect heterogeneity Statistics in Medicine". The article can be accessed using the link. Dr. Heagerty is the CLEAR Center...

Congratulations to Patrick Heagerty, PhD, for his recent publication, "Process guide for inferential studies using healthcare data from routine clinical practice to evaluate causal effects of drugs (PRINCIPLED): considerations from the FDA Sentinel Innovation Center"....

Congratulations to Patrick Heagerty, PhD, for his recent publication, "Using effect scores to characterize heterogeneity of treatment effects in clinical trials". The article can be accessed using the link. Dr. Heagerty is the CLEAR Center Methodology Core Director,...

Congratulations to Pradeep Suri, MD, for his recent publication, "Clinical assessment and management of lumbar spinal stenosis: clinical dilemmas and considerations for surgical referral". The article can be accessed using the link. Dr. Suri is the CLEAR Center...

Register for the next webinar by speaker Dr. Kevin Anstrom, PhD, MS of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, taking place on Monday, June 3rd, 2024. The title of his talk is, "Biomarkers for Evaluating Spine Treatments Trial – Some Design and Statistical...