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Jackson Hole Center for Preventive Medicine

                         Robert D. Langer, MD, MPH

 

Certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine

 

Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine

 

Member of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology

 

Fellow of the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology & Prevention

 

Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians

Education

Tufts College, B.A. (English), 1972

 

University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, M.D., 1978

 

Family Practice Residency, Overlook Hospital, Columbia College

of Physicians and Surgeons, 1979

 

San Diego State University, M.P.H, Epidemiology, 1988

 

University of California, San Diego, Preventive Medicine Residency, 1988

 

Professional Experience

The Center for Health Medical Group, Family Practice and Preventive Medicine, Managing

Partner, San Diego, CA, 1981-1986

 

Founder, President & CEO, Doctor's Record Systems, Inc., a medical software development        

company, San Diego, CA, 1982-1991

 

Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, (2000-

2005), Associate (1995-2000), Assistant (1988-1995)

 

Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public

Health, 2006-present

 

Director, Outcomes Research Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, 2005-2008

 

Principal Scientist and Senior Physician, Jackson Hole Center for Preventive Medicine, 2008-present

 

Honors

1972    B.A. cum laude, Tufts College

1978    James Scholar, University of Illinois College of Medicine

1978    Student Leadership Award, University of Illinois College of Medicine

1988    Best Student Paper, San Diego Epidemiology Research Exchange

1988    Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians

1991    Member, UCSD Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging

1991    Fellow, American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology

1992    Diplomate, American Board of Preventive Medicine

1996    Senior Investigator, UCSD Cancer Center


Research - Past 5 Years - Limited to Studies As Principal Investigator

Women's Health Initiative Clinical Trial and Observational Study, Vanguard Clinical Center,

National Institutes of Health

 

The Effects of Hormone Therapy on the Development and Progression of Dementia (The 

WHI Memory Study: WHIMS)

 

Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT), Southwest Oncology Group/

National Cancer Institute

 

The San Diego Successful Aging Follow-up Study, Stein Institute for Research on Aging

 

The HMO Research Network Cancer Research Network. National Cancer Institute.

 

The HMO Research Network Cardiovascular Research Network. National Heart, Lung, and

Blood Institute.

 

The National Distributed Research Network. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

 

An Algorithm to Improve Performance on a Quality Measure for Acute Bronchitis. National

Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control.

 

Optimal Second Line Therapy for Hypertension. Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality.

 

Predictors of Physician and Patient Compliance with Antihypertensive and Lipid Treatment.

Pfizer, Inc.

 

New Hypnotics and Cancer. Scripps Research Institute

 

Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Stage III Colorectal Cancer Compliance and Outcomes.

American Cancer Society.

 

The Effects of Tibolone on Carotid Artery Thickness and Bone Mineral Density (The OPAL Study),

Organon Inc.