Current Officers	Past Officers
President Jack Vevea Jack L. Vevea majored in Classical Greek as an undergraduate and subsequently worked in the printing industry until he was in his early 30s. At that point, he returned to university, studying psychology and mathematics, and completed a doctorate in educational statistics at the University of Chicago under the mentorship of Larry V. Hedges.  He has been a professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and, currently, the University of California, Merced.  His work focuses on difficult statistical challenges in psychological and educational research. He is particularly active in the field of meta-analysis, working on issues related to random- and mixed-effects statistical models and on the problem of publication bias. He relishes this opportunity to state, once again, that publication bias is not a problem of meta-analysis, but, rather, a problem of how we do research. Indeed, in the context of meta-analysis, we have our only opportunity to assess (and perhaps correct for) publication bias.	Presidents of SRSM Christopher Schmid 2018 — 2019 Michael Borenstein 2017 — 2018 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 Georgia Salanti Georgia Salanti studied Mathematics in Greece, Epidemiology in Belgium and Sociology in the UK. She has a PhD in Statistics from the Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich in Germany. She is now associate professor in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Before that, she was associate professor at the University of Ioannina in Greece and postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge, UK. She has been working in the field of evidence synthesis since 2003 and has contributed to the methodology of meta-analysis and systematic reviews. She participates in the European Network of HTA Agencies (EUnetHTA) Joint Action 3 (2016 - 2020) funded by the European Commission, representing the Swiss Network for Health Technology Assessment. She has participated in several guideline and methodological WHO meetings. In 2010 she received the Award L'Oréal-UNESCO "Women in Science” for her research achievements. She has been working with the Cochrane Collaboration since 2004 and initiated the Cochrane Comparing Multiple Interventions Methods Group that shapes the Cochrane Collaboration’s policy for network meta-analysis. Her recent research interests include the optimal use of real-world evidence in meta-analysis, dose-response models and methods for predicting heterogeneous treatment effects in comparative effectiveness research. Her work is been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the European Research Council and the European Commission.
Past President 2018 — 2019 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.
Secretary Tianjing Li Dr. Tianjing Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The primary goal of Dr. Li’s research is to develop, evaluate, and disseminate efficient methods for comparing healthcare interventions and to provide trust-worthy evidence for decision-making. Dr. Li has worked with Cochrane in various capacities for 15 years. Currently, in addition to her new role as a Coordinating Editor for Cochrane Eyes and Vision, she co-convenes the Cochrane Comparing Multiple Interventions Methods Group. She is an Associate Scientific Editor for the 2nd edition of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Outside of Cochrane, Dr. Li serves as an Editor-in-Chief for the journal Trials and the Review Editor for JAMA Ophthalmology. She is an elected member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology and was awarded the Society’s inaugural Early Career Award in 2016.	Past Secretaries Will Shadish 2006 — 2010 Betsy Becker 2011 — 2012 Thomas Trikalinos 2013 — 2016 Julian Little 2016 — 2019
Treasurer Ian Salandha Ian Jude Saldanha is a former physician (Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India) who then trained in public health, epidemiology, clinical trials, and evidence synthesis (MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA). Dr. Saldanha is an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, and of Epidemiology, at the Brown University School of Public Health. He is the Assistant Director of the Brown Evidence-based Practice Center. He researches outcome use in clinical research, outcome measurement, and technology for evidence synthesis, and has conducted evidence syntheses on a wide range of topics. He has served as an evidence synthesis expert committee member on a couple of committees for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Saldanha serves as an editor for the journal Systematic Reviews and for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Effective Healthcare Program.	Past Treasurers Will Shadish 2006 — 2010 Jack Vevea 2011 — 2014 Michael Brannick 2014 — 2018 Terri Pigott 2019 — 2020
Local Arrangements Co-Chair Georgia Salanti Georgia Salanti studied Mathematics in Greece, Epidemiology in Belgium and Sociology in the UK. She has a PhD in Statistics from the Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich in Germany. She is now associate professor in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Before that, she was associate professor at the University of Ioannina in Greece and postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge, UK. She has been working in the field of evidence synthesis since 2003 and has contributed to the methodology of meta-analysis and systematic reviews. She participates in the European Network of HTA Agencies (EUnetHTA) Joint Action 3 (2016 - 2020) funded by the European Commission, representing the Swiss Network for Health Technology Assessment. She has participated in several guideline and methodological WHO meetings. In 2010 she received the Award L'Oréal-UNESCO "Women in Science” for her research achievements. She has been working with the Cochrane Collaboration since 2004 and initiated the Cochrane Comparing Multiple Interventions Methods Group that shapes the Cochrane Collaboration’s policy for network meta-analysis. Her recent research interests include the optimal use of real-world evidence in meta-analysis, dose-response models and methods for predicting heterogeneous treatment effects comparative effectiveness research. Her work is been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the European Research Council and the European Commission.
Local Arrangements Co-Chair Matthias Egger biography to come
Research Synthesis Methods Editors
Co Editor Gerta Rücker 2018 — present Gerta Rücker is a senior statistician at the Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University of Freiburg, Germany. She holds a PhD in mathematics. Her special interests are meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies and network meta-analysis. She has published a large number of methodological research papers, co-authored 11 Cochrane reviews and other systematic reviews. She is an author of the R packages netmeta, diagmeta and metasens. With Guido Schwarzer and James Carpenter she has written a book Meta-Analysis with R, published in the Use R! series by Springer in 2015.	Past Editors Mark Lipsey 2010 — 2012 Chris Schmid 2010 — 2014 Hannah Rothstein 2013 — 2016 Tasha Beretvas 2016 — 2018 Ian Shrier 2015 — 2020
Co Editor Terri Pigott 2020 — present Terri Pigott is Associate Provost for Research and a Professor of Research Methodology in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago. She served as Dean of the School of Education from 2014-2017. Prior to Loyola, she was Associate Program Officer at the Spencer Foundation in Chicago. Dr. Pigott is the former co-Chair and current co-Editor of the Methods Group of the Campbell Collaboration, an international collaboration supporting the production of systematic reviews of social interventions. She has numerous publications on methods of meta-analysis, including work on handling missing data and computing power in meta-analysis. She is also interested in outcome reporting bias in education research, and its implications for systematic review. She serves on a number of editorial boards including Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Methods, and Research Synthesis Methods. She is chair of the AERA SIG on Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, and a long-time member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (SRSM)