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Diana B. Petitti, MD, MPH,
FACPM
West Regent
Dr.
Petitti received her BA degree from Cornell University,
her MD from Harvard Medical School, and her MPH from
Berkeley School of Public Health. Her past employment
includes two years with the Centers for Disease Control as
an EIS officer, a five year term in the Northern
California Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and 10
years as a faculty member at the University of California
San Francisco School of Medicine, where she achieved
tenure. It was during a sabbatical year at UCSF that she
authored the book, Meta-analysis, Decision Analysis, and
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods for Quantitative
Synthesis in Medicine, which is now is its second edition
and is widely used to teach methods for systematic review
to medical students and fellows.
Dr.
Petitti left UCSF in 1993 to accept a position as Research
Director with Kaiser Permanente Southern California. In
this position, she was a member of the senior management
team of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group
overseeing guidelines, technology assessment, and quality
assessment and improvement as well as clinical and health
services research.
Dr.
Petitti has authored more than 160 journal publications
and a second book, Applied Epidemiology, co-authored, with
Ross Brownson. Her publications have appeared in many
prestigious journals including JAMA, the New England
Journal of Medicine, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and
the American Journal of Epidemiology.
She has
served on numerous national and international committees,
including most recently the Institute of Medicine’s
committee that produced the report, “Knowing What Works in
Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation.” She is serving
the 5th year of a six year term as Vice Chair
of the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
Dr.
Petitti is an adjunct Professor in the Department of
Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern
California, where she is on sabbatical and working on a
new book, “Epidemiology: Triumph and Trash.”
ACPM Board of
Regents
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