BRIAN l. STROM

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.