लेखक: Michael W. W. Kattan

Michael W. Kattan, Ph.D., is Chairman of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Cleveland Clinic.  He directs a department of 90 professionals who span the areas of biostatistics, epidemiology, health outcomes research and statistical genetics.  Previously, he was Associate Attending Outcomes Research Scientist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Urology at Cornell University.  Dr. Kattan has written more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, many explicity dealing with medical decision making, and he serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Medical Decision Making.