Til Stürmer, MD, MPH
Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Contact information:
Office address:
Division of Preventive Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
900 Commonwealth Avenue East, 3rd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: 617-278-0627
FAX: 617-734-1437
E-mail: til.sturmer@post.harvard.edu
Primary office address:
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
1620 Tremont Street, Suite 3030
Boston, Massachusetts 02120
Phone: 617-278-0627
FAX: 617-232-8602
Primary research interests:
Dr. Stürmer has a dual focus in epidemiologic methods and clinical epidemiology. His research in epidemiologic methods includes the development of more efficient matching strategies in genetic epidemiology; measurement error correction methods in case-control studies; the value of propensity scores for pharmacoepidemiologic studies; and the novel integration of ideas from measurement error correction and propensity score analysis to improve control for confounding by medication-use choices using data from validation studies. His research in clinical epidemiology covers many topics, including nephro- and cardiovascular toxicity of paracetamol and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; chemoprevention of colorectal cancer and dementia with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; determinants of antibiotic resistance; and hormone therapy, pain, and sub-clinical inflammation in osteoarthritis.
Recent publications:
Brenner H, Chang-Claude J, Seiler CM, Stürmer T, Hoffmeister M. Potential for colorectal cancer prevention of sigmoidoscopy versus colonoscopy: population-based case-control study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 2007; 16: 494-499.
Erb A, Stürmer T, Marre R, Brenner H. Prevalence of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli: overview of geographical, temporal, and methodological variations. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 2007; 26: 83-90.
Stürmer T, Buring JE, Lee IM, Gaziano JM, Glynn RJ. Metabolic abnormalities and risk for colorectal cancer in the Physicians' Health Study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 2006; 15: 2391-2397
Dreinhöfer K, Dieppe P, Stürmer T, Gröber-Grätz D, Flören K, Günther KP, Puhl W, Brenner H. Indications for total hip replacement: comparison of assessments of orthopaedic surgeons and referring physicians. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2006; 65: 1346-1350.
Stürmer T, Hasselbach P, Amelang M. Personality, lifestyle, and risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer: follow-up of population based cohort. British Medical Journal 2006; 332: 1359-1362.
Solomon DH, Avorn J, Stürmer T, Glynn RJ, Mogun H, Schneeweiss S. Cardiovascular outcomes in new users of Coxibs and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs: high risk subgroups and time course of risk. Arthritis and Rheumatism 2006; 54: 1378-1389.
Brenner H, Chang-Claude J, Seiler CM, Stürmer T, Hoffmeister M. Does a negative screening colonoscopy ever need to be repeated? Gut 2006; 55: 1145-1150.
Stürmer T, Rothman KJ, Glynn RJ. Insights into different results from different causal contrasts in the presence of effect-measure modification. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 2006; 15: 698-709.
Glynn RJ, Schneeweiss S, Stürmer T. Indications for propensity scores and review of their use in pharmacoepidemiology. Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology 2006; 98: 253-259.
Gebhardt K, Brenner H, Stürmer T, Raum E, Richter W, Schiltenwolf M, Buchner M. The course of high-sensitive C-reactive protein in correlation with pain and clinical function in patients with acute lumbosciatic pain and chronic low back pain - a 6 months prospective longitudinal study. European Journal of Pain 2006; 10: 711-719.
Brookhart MA, Schneeweiss S, Rothman KJ,.Glynn RJ, Avorn J, Stürmer T. Variable selection for propensity score models. American Journal of Epidemiology 2006; 163: 1149-1156.
Stürmer T, Buring JE, Lee IM, Kurth T, Gaziano JM, Glynn RJ. Colorectal Cancer After Start of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use. American Journal of Medicine 2006; 119: 494-502.
Solomon DH, Avorn J, Wang PS, Vaillant G, Cabral D, Mogun H, Stürmer T. Prescription opioid use among older adults with arthritis or low back pain. Arthritis and Rheumatism (Arthritis Care & Research) 2006; 55: 35-41.
Debling D, Amelang M, Hasselbach P, Stürmer T. Diabetes and cognitive function in a population-based study of elderly women and men. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications 2006; 20: 238-245.
Stürmer T, Joshi M, Glynn RJ, Avorn J, Rothman KJ, Schneeweiss S. A review of the application of propensity score methods yielded increasing use, advantages in specific settings, but not substantially different estimates compared with conventional multivariable methods. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2006; 59: 437-447.
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