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Sally C. Morton

Expertise

Evidence Synthesis
Health Services Research
Meta-Analysis

Biography

Sally C. Morton, PhD, joined RTI in 2005 as vice president of statistics and epidemiology. Previously, Dr. Morton was head of the RAND Corporation Statistics Group from 1995 to 2002 and held the RAND endowed chair in statistics from 2000 to 2005. From 1997 to 2005, she was co-director of the Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center. Her methodological interests include the use of meta-analysis in evidence-based medicine, the sampling of vulnerable populations, and statistical methods for health services research. She is an editor of Statistical Science and served as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Dr. Morton is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Education

PhD, Statistics, Stanford University; MSc, Statistics, London School of Economics; MS, Operations Research, Stanford University; BS, Mathematical Sciences, Stanford University.

Selected Publications

MacLean, C.H., Newberry, S.J., Mojica, W.A., Khanna, P., Issa, A.M., Suttorp, M.J., Lim, Y.W., Traina, S.B., Hilton, L., Garland, R., & Morton, S.C. (2006 Jan). Effects of omega-3 fatty acids on cancer risk - A systematic review. JAMA, 295 (4):403-415.

Morton, S.C. (2005). Ephedra. Statistical Science, 20 (3):242-248.

Chodosh, J., Morton, S.C., Mojica, W., Maglione, M., Suttorp, M.J., Hilton, L., Rhodes, S., & Shekelle, P. (2005). Meta-analysis: Chronic disease self-management programs for older adults. Annals of Internal Medicine, 143 (6):427-438.

Li, Z.P., Maglione, M., Tu, W.L., Mojica, W., Arterburn, D., Shugarman, L.R., Hilton, L., Suttorp, M., Solomon, V., Shekelle, P.G., & Morton, S.C. (2005). Meta-analysis: Pharmacologic treatment of obesity. Annals of Internal Medicine, 142 (7):532-546.

Morton, S.C. (2005). Statistical collaboration to impact policy decisions. Statistics in Medicine, 24 (4):493-501.

Chang, J.T., Morton, S.C., Rubenstein, L.Z., Mojica, W.A., Maglione, M., Suttorp, M.J., Roth, E.A., & Shekelle, P.G. (2004). Interventions for the prevention of falls in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials. BMJ, 328 (7441):680-687.

Shekelle, P.G., Hardy, M.L., Morton, S.C., Maglione, M., Mojica, W.A., Suttorp, M.J., Rhodes, S.L., Jungvig, L., & Gagne, J. (2003). Efficacy and safety of ephedra and ephedrine for weight loss and athletic performance - A meta-analysis. JAMA, 289 (12):1537-1545.

Goldman, D.R., Bhattacharya, J., McCaffrey, D.F., Duan, N., Leibowitz, A.A., Joyce, G.F., & Morton, S.C. (2001). Effect of insurance on mortality in an HIV-positive population in care. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96 (455):883-894.

Stroup, D.F., Berlin, J.A., Morton, S.C., Olkin, I., Williamson, G.D., Rennie, D., Moher, D., Becker, B.J., Sipe, T.A., & Thacker, S.B. (2000). Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology - A proposal for reporting. JAMA, 283 (15):2008-2012.

Shapiro, M.F., Morton, S.C., McCaffrey, D.F., Senterfitt, J.W., Fleishman, J.A., Perlman, J.F., Athey, L.A., Keesey, J.W., Goldman, D.P., Berry, S.H., & Bozzette, S.A. (1999). Variations in the care of HIV-infected adults in the United States - Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study. JAMA, 281 (24):2305-2315.

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