Marlene J. Egger, PhD
Marlene J. Egger is a Professor and health services researcher with a PhD in statistics from Stanford University. She has served as faculty in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and in the interdepartmental Master of Statistics program since 1979. She serves currently as director of Biostatistics in the Public Health Division of DFPM. She is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.
Dr. Egger spent her early career as the Biostatistician for the Cooperative Systematic Studies of Rheumatic Diseases. She was the first director of the Utah Cancer Center's Biostatistics Shared Resource, where she did statistical consulting for epidemiology, clinical trials, and other biomedical studies. She served on study sections and FDA advisory committees. She has been very active in the American Statistical Association and was honored by being named a Fellow of ASA in 2001. She retooled in health services research in the 1990's, with an emphasis on access to health care for children, and she spent ten years performing maternal and child health (public health) workforce enhancement with the Rocky Mountain Public Health Education Consortium. She is also a member of Delta Omega, the public health honor society.
Current research interests include primary care practice redesign, access to health care, women's health, and selected others. Methodological expertise includes biostatistics, clinical quality improvement, and outcomes research, with some experience in qualitative research.
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