Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Til Stürmer is the Nancy A. Dreyer distinguished professor and chair of Department of Epidemiology at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is also the director of comparative effectiveness research at the NC TraCS Institute and the co-director of the NC Diabetes Research Center Advanced Clinical Study Methods Core (ACSMC). As former director of the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and past president of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE), he has been able to assemble an outstanding inter¬disciplinary team of researchers with expertise in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, internal medicine, geriatrics, and biostatistics from within and outside of UNC. His research team focuses on advancing study design and analytic methods to provide valid evidence for relative benefit and harm of clinically relevant treatment alternatives in older adults. Funded by the National Institute on Aging since 2005, his research team has published more than 110 papers with a focus on developing and implementing novel methods to answer therapeutic questions of importance to older adults in the absence of alternative evidence.

Til Stürmer teaches ‘Pharmacoepidemiology and comparative effectiveness research’ together with Jennifer Lund on Monday, June 10 and Tuesday, June 11.