Current Officers	Past Officers
President Michael Borenstein Dr. Michael Borenstein is the Director of Biostat, a company that develops statistical software. Dr. Borenstein is the primary developer of Power And Precision, a computer program for sample size calculation, and of Comprehensive Meta Analysis, a computer program for meta analysis and systematic reviews. He served as Director of Biostatistics at Long Island Jewish Medical Center (1982-2002) and as Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1992-2002). Dr. Borenstein has served on a number of review groups and advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health, including SBIR review groups (1994-2002) and as a member of the NIMH Data Safety Monitoring Board (1997-2001). He is an active member of the statistical advisory groups of the Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations.	Presidents of SRSM Kay Dickersin 2016 — 2017 Jessica Gurevitch 2015 — 2016 Lesley Stewart 2014 — 2015 William Shadish 2013 — 2014 Hannah Rothstein 2012 — 2013 Jesse Berlin 2011 — 2012 David Jones 2010 — 2011 John Ioannidis 2009 — 2010 Larry Hedges 2008 — 2009 Alex Sutton 2007 — 2008 Betsy Becker 2006 — 2007 Julian Higgins 2005 — 2006
President-Elect Christopher Schmid Dr. Schmid is Professor of Biostatistics and Co-Director of the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health at Brown University School of Public Health. He directs the Clinical Study Design, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Core of the Rhode Island Center to Advance Translational Science and also directs the Evidence Synthesis Academy, a federally funded educational program for mid-career professionals and users of healthcare evidence. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, founding Editor of the journal Research Synthesis Methods, long-time statistical editor of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases and member of the Data Safety and Risk Management Committee for FDA. His research focuses on methods and applications for meta-analysis particularly Bayesian methods and software and on predictive models derived from combining data from different sources. He was lead statistician for the CKD-EPI consortium that developed the most commonly used formulas to estimate GFR based on the biomarkers serum creatinine and serum cystatin. Recently, he has been focusing efforts on meta-analysis of N-of-1 studies and is lead statistician on three current funded series of trials. He is an author of more than 250 publications and has served as a consulting statistician in diverse areas of medicine and health for academia, government and industry. He has coauthored consensus CONSORT reporting guidelines for N-of-1 trials and single-case designs, and PRISMA guidelines extensions for meta-analysis of individual participant studies and for network meta-analyses as well as the Institute of Medicine report that established national standards for systematic reviews Dr. Schmid graduated from Haverford College with a BA in Mathematics and received his PhD in Statistics from Harvard University. He worked for 20 years at Tufts Medical Center, including 6 years directing its Biostatistics Research Center before moving to Brown in 2012 where he directed its Masters program for 4 years.
Past President 2016 — 2017 Kay Dickersin Kay Dickersin's major research interests are related to epidemiology, randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta analysis, reporting biases, trials registers, peer review, evidence-based health care, and patient-centered outcomes research. She has conducted studies in a number of important subject areas, including women's health, eyes and vision, and surgery. Kay Dickersin serves as the Director for the Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis, whose faculty, staff and students are involved in methodologic research related to clinical trials and evidence synthesis. She and the Clinical Trials & Evidence Synthesis faculty develop and implement the curriculum in the area of concentration by the same name. She is also Director of the US Cochrane Center (USCC), one of 13 Centers worldwide participating in The Cochrane Collaboration. The Collaboration aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health by preparing, maintaining, and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of available evidence on the benefits and risks of health care. The USCC hosts Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE). Kay Dickersin also serves as Director of the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Review Group, US Satellite (CEVG@US).
Secretary Julian Little Julian Little is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Human Genome Epidemiology in the University Ottawa, Canada, where he is Director of the School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine. His research interests include the application of research synthesis methods to help identify potential biases in genetic association studies and improve transparency of reporting, in the evaluation of population-based screening and related interventions, including potential value of genetic information in this context, harmonization of biobanks, and epidemiology of cancer and of congenital anomalies.	Past Secretaries Will Shadish 2006 — 2010 Betsy Becker 2011 — 2012 Thomas Trikalinos 2013 — 2016
Treasurer Michael Brannick Michael Brannick is Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida. He teaches courses in introductory and advanced statistics, including a graduate seminar in meta-analysis. He has written methodological articles on the application of meta-analysis to personnel selection and the reliability of measurement, and used computer simulations to investigate the pros and cons of different weighting schemes. His papers also report applications of meta-analysis to several content areas, often in industrial and organizational psychology.	Past Treasurers Will Shadish 2006 — 2010 Jack Vevea 2011 — 2014
Local Arrangements Chair Julian Higgins Julian is Professor of Evidence Synthesis at the Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, UK. He has wide-ranging research interests in the areas of systematic review and meta-analysis methods. He was previously Chair in Evidence Synthesis at the University of York, and Programme Leader at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge. Julian is a past President of the Society, and a former member of the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group. He is still an active contributor to Cochrane, having co-edited the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions since 2003. With a Google Scholar H-index over 90, Julian was named as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2015 and 2016. Julian is a multiple winner of the Thomas C Chalmers Award from Cochrane; received the Frederick Mosteller Award for distinctive contributions to systematic reviewing from the Campbell Collaboration in 2010, and was awarded the Olkin Award for distinguished lifetime achievement by the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology in 2016.
Research Synthesis Methods Editors
Co Editor Tasha Beretvas 2016 — present Tasha Beretvas is a professor in the Quantitative Methods program in the Department of Educational Psychology, at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches multiple statistics courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. Her meta-analysis research interests lie in the application and evaluation of models and methods for handling methodological dilemmas in meta-analysis with a particular focus on single-case design meta-analysis.	Past Editors Mark Lipsey 2010 — 2012 Chris Schmid 2010 — 2014 Hannah Rothstein 2013 — 2016
Co Editor Ian Shrier 2015 — present Ian Shrier is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, McGill University, Montreal Canada. His current research interests focus on methods for information synthesis, decision-making, causal inference and injury epidemiology.