By Franny White October 17, 2022 Portland, OR
Miguel Marino, Ph.D., is an subordinate prof of biostatistics successful the OHSU School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine and the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health’s Biostatistics Group. (Courtesy of Shelby Brakken)
An Oregon Health & Science University biostatistician whose probe exposes radical and taste wellness inequality is among 100 recently elected members of the National Academy of Medicine, which advises the federation connected aesculapian issues.
The predetermination recognizes Miguel Marino, Ph.D., an subordinate prof of biostatistics successful the OHSU School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine and the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health’s Biostatistics Group, for being a satellite person successful superior attraction biostatistics, utilizing innovative approaches to survey radical and taste subpopulations successful physics wellness records, oregon EHRs. The academy notes Marino’s “pioneering methods to usage EHR information for wellness equity probe person revolutionized this field.”
Election to the academy is considered 1 of the highest honors successful the fields of wellness and medicine, and recognizes individuals who person demonstrated outstanding nonrecreational accomplishment and committedness to service. New members are elected by existent members.
“Dr. Marino’s statistical innovations uncover however U.S. wellness attraction providers and institutions tin amended service historically marginalized communities that proceed to acquisition wellness inequities today,” said OHSU President Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H., FACS. “Advancing wellness equity is of captious importance. We are arrogant of Dr. Marino and his transformational work, and pleased that his efforts are being recognized by the National Academy of Medicine.”
A first-generation Mexican American, Marino employs statistic to reply pressing questions astir wellness policy, wellness disparities, wellness security and more. He uses aggregate layers of information — specified arsenic a patient’s preferred connection oregon spot of birth, whether clinics are located successful agrarian oregon municipality areas, and authorities oregon national policies — to research differences among chiseled subgroups of patients who probe often lumps unneurotic owed to their shared contention oregon ethnicity. Marino seeks to recognize however each subgroup accesses care; if definite conditions impact immoderate subgroups much than others; and however antithetic policies oregon approaches to wellness attraction tin amended entree oregon trim inequity.
He and John Heintzman, M.D., co-founded the Primary Care Latino Equity Research Lab, oregon PRIMER Lab, astatine OHSU. He is statistical exertion for JAMA Health Forum; co-chairs the NIH Community Engagement Alliance’s Needs Assessment & Evaluation Workgroup; and serves connected the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee connected Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations. In 2020, the National Academy of Medicine named him an Emerging Leader successful Health and Medicine.
Marino earned a doctorate successful biostatistics from Harvard University, arsenic good arsenic a master’s grade successful biostatistics and a bachelors’ grade successful mathematics and applied science, some from the University of California, Los Angeles. He served arsenic a post-doctoral chap astatine the Harvard School of Public Health earlier joining OHSU successful 2012.
Other OHSU module members who person antecedently been elected to the National Academy of Medicine include: Erik Brodt, M.D.; Deborah Cohen, Ph.D.; Jennifer DeVoe, M.D.; Brian Druker, M.D.; Richard Goodman, M.D., Ph.D.; Eric Gouaux, Ph.D., Joe Gray, Ph.D.; Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H., FACS; Craig Newgard, M.D., M.P.H.; and Gary Westbrook, M.D.
More accusation and a database of each 100 caller National Academy of Medicine members tin beryllium recovered successful the academy’s announcement.
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