Health Services Research Centers in Departments of Surgery
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Baylor College of Medicine
Surgical Health services Academy for Research and Education (SHARE)
Director: Barbara W. Trautner, MD, PhD

Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Center for Surgery and Public Health
Director: Zara Cooper, MD

The Comparative Effectiveness Research Translation Network (CERTAIN)
Directors: David Flum, MD & Larry Kessler, MD

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Center for the Evaluation of Surgical Care
Director: Philip Goodney, MD, MS

Duke University
Surgical Center for Outcomes Research (SCORES)
Director: Chuck Scales, MD


Indiana University School of Medicine
Surgical Outcomes & Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC)
Director: Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, MS

Johns Hopkins University
Department of Neurosurgery Center
Patient Report Outcomes, Comparative Effectiveness and Surgical Safety (PROCESS)
Director: Debraj Mukherjee, MD, MPH

Massachusetts General Hospital
Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery
Director: Matthew Hutter, MD, MPH

Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic Surgical Outcomes Program in the Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery
Director: Elizabeth Habermann, PhD

McGill University
McGill Centre for Improvement of Surgical Outcomes (CISO, Montreal Canada)
Director: Julio Fiore, PhD & Liane Feldman, MD

Michigan Medicine
Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy (CHOP)
Director: Jennifer Waljee, MD, MPH, MS

Nationwide Children’s Hospital
The Center for Surgical Outcomes (CSOR)
Directors: Katherine Deans, MD & Peter Minneci, MD

Nebraska Medical Center
Center for Advanced Surgical Technology (CAST)
Director: Dmitry Oleynikov, MD

Stanford University
Surgery Policy Improvement Research & Education (S-SPIRE)
Director: Arden M. Morris, MD, MPH

The Ohio State University
Center for Surgical Assessment, Research and Policy (SHARP)
Director: Heena Santry, MD

The University of Texas
Center for Surgical Trial and Evidence-based Practice (C-STEP)
Director: Kevin Lally, MD & Lillian Kao, MD

University of Colorado
Surgical Outcomes and Applied Research (SOAR)
Surgical Director: Robert A. Meguid, MD, MPH
Research Director: Kathryn Colborn, PhD

University of Pennsylvania
Center for Surgery and Health Economics Link to Website
Director: Rachel Kelz, MD

University of Utah
Utah Intervention Quality & Implementation Research (U-INQUIRE)
Directors: Benjamin Brooke, MD, PhD

University of Washington
Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE)
Directors: David Flum, MD & Erika Wolff, MD


Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Center for Surgical Quality and Outcomes Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Directors: David Penson, MD & Daniel Barocas, MD

Vanderbilt University Medical Center for Colorectal Research
Director: Alexander Hawkins, MD