Current Officers	Past Officers
President 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.	Presidents of SRSM 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 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.
Past President 2016 — 2017 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.
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 Terri Pigott 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).	Past Treasurers Will Shadish 2006 — 2010 Jack Vevea 2011 — 2014 Michael Brannick 2011 — 2018
Local Arrangements Co-Chair Larry Hedges biography to come
Local Arrangements Co-Chair Terri Pigott 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).
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
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.