CERTAIN Leadership

Advisory Board

• Peter Dunbar, MD
• Tom Fritz, MPA
• S. Malia Fullerton, PhD
• Erin Holve, PhD
• Robert Mecklenburg, MD
• Kathy Schmitt, MPA
• Jonathan Sugarman, MD, MPH
• Peter Tang

Executive Committee

• David R. Flum, MD, MPH
• Ellen T. Farrokhi, MD
• Larry G. Kessler, ScD
• Sean D. Sullivan, PhD
• Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD

Investigative Cores

Administrative Core

• David R. Flum, MD, MPH - CERTAIN Medical Director
• Rafael Alfonso, MD, MSc, PhD - CERTAIN Scientific Director 
• Allison Devlin, MS - CERTAIN Program Director
• Sarah O. Lawrence, MA - Manager, CERTAIN Stakeholder Engagement
• Stephanie Mallahan - CERTAIN Program Operations Coordinator

Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Core

• E. Beth Devine, PharmD, MBA, PhD - Lead
• Larry G. Kessler, ScD
• Sean D. Sullivan, PhD
• N. David Yanez, PhD - Lead

Health Informatics Technology (HIT) Core

• Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD - Lead
• Erik Van Eaton, MD
• E. Beth Devine, PharmD, MBA, PhD
• Daniel Capurro, MD 
• Michael Tepper, PhD
• Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, PhD

Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Core

• Donald Patrick, PhD, MSPH - Lead
• Todd C. Edwards, PhD - Co-Lead, Patient-Reported Outcomes Core

Vascular Clinical (VI) Core

• Ellen T. Farrokhi, MD - Lead; SCOAP Medical Director
• Alexander Clowes, MD
• Mark Meissner, MD

Spine Clinical Core

• Michael Lee, MD - Lead
• Neal Shonnard, MD - SCOAP Associate Medical Director, Spine SCOAP

Urology (Uro) Clinical Core 

• John L. Gore, MD, MS - Lead
• Jonathan Wright, MD

Cardiothoracic (CT) Clinical Core

• Farhood Farjah, MD, MPH - Lead