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
"As a professor of statistics, I was unsure whether to take the initial online course in meta-analysis, thinking that it might either be too dense and jargon-filled to be interesting (given Dr. Borenstein’s impressive credentials and knowledge base) or too basic (given that I was already teaching a course). As I finish the series now, however, I am awestruck by the quality of this offering. Dr. Borenstein is quite simply a master teacher, so he offers complex material in a completely comprehensible form, the best of both worlds. I picked up details on the statistics, the use of CMA, and the theory behind the statistics, but I also (hopefully) will model the style and clarity of his teaching style in my own work in the future. I look forward to the intermediate and advanced sessions."
Constance J. Dalenberg, PhD - Alliant International University - Online Workshop
"Excellent way of approaching meta-analysis, rendering it very simple using a very nice and user-friendly software. Everything is in it!"
Sylvain Larroque - Senior Biostatistician, Shire