Ph.D., UCLA School of Public Health; M.D., Duke University; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles; B.S. in chemistry and biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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More ExpertsPaul G. Shekelle is a physician policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and has served as codirector of the Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) from 1997-2018. He is a staff physician at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine. He is widely recognized in the field of guidelines, quality measurement, and evidence-based medicine. He is a past chair of the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians (ACP). Shekelle earned his M.D. from Duke University and his Ph.D. from UCLA.
Agniel D, Haviland A, Shekelle P, Scherling A, Damberg CL, "Distinguishing High-Performing Health Systems Using a Composite of Publicly Reported Measures of Ambulatory Care," Ann Intern Med, 2020
Rudin RS, Friedberg MW, Shekelle P, Shah N, Bates DW, "Getting Value From Electronic Health Records: Research Needed to Improve Practice," Ann Intern Med, 2020
Greeley AM, Tanner EP, Mak S, Begashaw MM, Miake-Lye IM, Shekelle PG, "Sitters as a Patient Safety Strategy to Reduce Hospital Falls: A Systematic Review," Ann Intern Med, 175(5), 2020
Jue, J. J., Cunningham, S., Lohr, K., Shekelle, P., Shiffman, R., Robbins, C., ... & Schoelles, K, "Developing and Testing the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Guideline Clearinghouse Extent of Adherence to Trustworthy Standards (NEATS) Instrument," Annals of internal medicine, 170(7), 2019
Shekelle PG, Cook IA, Miake-Lye IM, Booth MS, Beroes JM, Mak S., "Benefits and Harms of Cranial Electrical Stimulation for Chronic Painful Conditions, Depression, Anxiety, and Insomnia: A Systematic Review," Ann Intern Med, 168(6), 2018
Shekelle PG, Shetty K, Newberry S, Maglione M, Motala A, "Machine learning versus standard techniques for updating searches for systematic reviews: a diagnostic accuracy study," Ann Intern Med, 167(3), 2017
Childers CP, Maggard-Gibbons M, Shekelle PG, "Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients With Coronary Stents Undergoing Elective Noncardiac Surgery: Continue, Stop, or Something in Between?" JAMA, 318(2), 2017
Paige NM, Miake-Lye IM, Booth MS, Beroes JM, Mardian AS, Dougherty P, Branson R, Tang B, Morton SC, Shekelle PG, "Association of Spinal Manipulative Therapy With Clinical Benefit and Harm for Acute Low Back Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis," JAMA, 317(14), 2017
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