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Dr.
Strom is Chair and Professor of Biostatistics & Epidemiology,
Professor of Medicine,  Professor
of Pharmacology, Director of the Center for Clinical
Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Chair of the
Graduate Group in Epidemiology & Biostatistics,
all at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
He has been on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine since 1980.
The
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
he has created at Penn includes over 300 individuals,
funded by over $20 million/year. Over the years,
his program has trained 200 clinicians; all but 12
still remain as academic investigators. In the process,
he has been a leader in the rigorous formal training
of clinical researchers.
Although
Dr. Strom's interests span many areas of clinical
epidemiology, his major research interest is in the
field of pharmacoepidemiology. Author and editor
of one of the field's major texts (the third edition
was published in 2000), Dr. Strom was President of
the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology.
In addition to writing over 280 original papers,
he has been PI of over 140 grants, including over
$43 million in direct costs alone, and has contributed
to many more. Recent grants include an NCI Program
Project Grant on Molecular Susceptibility to Hormone-Induced
Cancer and an award from the Agency for Health Care
Research and Quality for a Center for Research and
Education in Therapeutics. He has been invited to
give over 225 talks outside his local area, including
being the keynote speaker for multiple international
meetings. Dr. Strom has been a consultant to NIH,
FDA, CDC, AAMC, foreign governments, most major pharmaceutical
manufacturers, and many law firms.
Dr.
Strom was a member of the Board of Regents of the
American College of Physicians. In addition to being
on the Board of ACE, he is a member of the American
Epidemiology Society, and is one of a handful of
clinical epidemiologists ever elected to the American
Society of Clinical Investigation and American Association
of Physicians. |
