Interests

Primary interests (alphabetic order) include:

  • Clinical decision-making

  • Clinical research transparency and integrity

  • Epidemiology (particularly clinical epidemiology)

  • Epistemology

  • Evidence appraisal, synthesis, and application

  • Internal medicine (outpatient and inpatient) and its subspecialties

  • Knowledge dissemination and utilization

  • Meta-research (research on research)

  • Overdiagnosis and overtreatment

  • Palliative care; end-of-life care and hospice

  • Patient communication and education

  • Rational thinking and cognitive science

  • Research methodology1

  • Shared decision-making2

  • Statistics, particularly biostatistics1

  • Teaching and training others


  1. Research methodology and statistics are intimately related and interdependent, but they are often spoken of separately, so I also emphasize both in line with that convention. ↩︎

  2. Shared decision-making is arguably a necessary part of evidence-based medicine, but they are often spoken of separately, so I also emphasize both in line with that convention. ↩︎