Author Profile

Lars G. Hemkens, MD, MPH is Senior Scientist at the Department of Clinical Research and Deputy Director of the Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (ceb), University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. Previously he was at the Stanford Prevention Research Center (Stanford University) and at IQWiG (Department of the Director). His work focuses on routinely collected data, pragmatic trials and meta-research. His key interests include answering health care questions with data that were not made for answering those questions.

Kimberly Alba Mc Cord, MSc, is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CEB) of the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. She has been trained as a licensed nurse practitioner and has worked many years in various hospital and community settings before working on the use of routinely collected data in clinical research.