Course » Instructor
Michael Borenstein, PhD
Director, Biostat, Inc.
Associate Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1990-2001)
Director of Biostatistics, Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center (1982-2002)
Biostat100@GMail.com
Michael Borenstein is the co-author (with Larry Hedges, Julian Higgins, and Hannah Rothstein) of the text Introduction to Meta Analysis (Wiley, 2009, 2021). He is also the author of the text Common Mistakes in Meta-Analysis and How to Avoid Them. A PDF of this book may be downloaded here for free.
Dr. Borenstein has published numerous papers on meta-analysis and contributed chapters to texts on meta-analysis and systematic reviews. He is the primary developer of the software Comprehensive Meta Analysis (CMA) which will be used in this course. This software was developed with funding from the National Institutes of Health in the United States, in collaboration with experts from the US, the UK, and Australia. It was initially published in the year 2000 and is now in its fourth major release. The software is used by tens of thousands of researchers throughout the world.
Dr. Borenstein has been the primary investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop methods and software for conducting and teaching meta- analysis. He serves as a reviewer for meta-analyses submitted for publication. He is a founding member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology, and served as its president in 2017-2018. Dr. Borenstein has been teaching workshops on meta-analysis since 2005 at numerous venues including the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the Federal Drug Administration, and the Karolinska Institute, as well as scores of workshops open to the public.
Select publications may be downloaded here
Testimonials
"The meta-analysis seminar was extremely clear, informative, and helpful. We were especially pleased that it was at an appropriate level for the faculty and researchers who were from various areas of specialization in health and medical sciences at our University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Thank you."
Syed S. Haque, PhD - Professor and Chairman, Department of Health Informatics, Director of Graduate Programs in Biomedical Informatics
"A very clear, usable way to approach meta-analysis. As a non-statistician, I found this course very understandable and applicable to my work in systematic reviews. Dr. Borenstein has a gift of being able to clearly explain difficult concepts. This is a fantastic course!"
Dru Riddle, PhD, CRNA - Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas USA, School of Nurse Anesthesia