CADTH Lecture Series – Comparative Effectiveness for Interventions and Devices

CADTH is hosting a series of lectures by prominent scholars and opinion leaders to share their perspectives on some of the most pressing issues facing health technology assessment (HTA) and health care today.

Art Sedrakyan, MD, PhD, Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College

In the United States, 63% of all hospital stays — or more than 24 million hospital stays annually — involve the use of some type of procedure and related medical device. Of these, more than 15 million involve major operating-room procedures. Given these volumes, you’d think that the infrastructure to study the in-hospital and long-term outcomes of device use would be well developed, but in fact it is very limited. Join Dr. Art Sedrakyan, a leading authority in comparative effectiveness research, for an insightful lecture that will show how the use of international data resources and routinely available US data can support informed decisions about hospital procedures and interventions and encourage national investment in device/intervention evaluations. Dr. Sedrakyan’s lecture will cover:

• A brief history of comparative effectiveness research, outcomes research, and current developments
• Unique aspects of surgery/interventions and device evaluation and innovation
• Case studies with innovative data and methods development.

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2015 Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT
Location: 2nd Floor Council Chambers, 865 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario

There is no fee to participate, but advance registration is required.

Register online by 5:00 p.m. September 21, 2015.