Joseph J. Sudano, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University at The MetroHealth System
Center for Health Care Research and Policy
2500 MetroHealth Dr., R236A
Cleveland, OH
USA 44109


Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Sudano is a medical sociologist and health services researcher and Director of the Social and Behavioral Science Unit in the Center for Health Care Research and Policy at CWRU. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the CWRU School of Medicine. His research interests include ethnic disparities in health; health related survey data collection and analysis; social determinants of health; measurement equivalence in cross-cultural health status measurement; and structural equation modeling in health outcomes research.

Papers:
AM08 MAKING BETTER DECISIONS IN CAUSAL ANALYSIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING AND BAYESIAN NETWORKS