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Leslie Lenert, MD, MS Professor IR, Medicine Cancer Prevention & Control Program Contact by Email

Dr. Lenert received his MD degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984, trained in Internal Medicine at University of Texas, Southwestern School of Medicine, and then completed a combined fellowship in Medical Informatics and Clinical Pharmacology at Stanford University. He was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Stanford from 1990 to 1998 and Clinical Chief of the Division from 1995 to 1998. At that time, Dr. Lenert moved to the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Section of Health Services Research at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. There he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998 and full Professor in 2004.

An important focus of Dr. Lenert’s research has been the uses of the Internet for delivery of healthcare for conducting experiments in patient populations. Work in this area includes some the earlier publications of applications of standardized questionnaires in patient populations on the web, assessment of the validity of self report data in web based populations, and methods for promoting behavioral change over the web. Applications areas for work include ulcerative colitis, schizophrenia, migraine headache, rheumatoid arthritis, and smoking cessation. From a technical (informatics) perspective, Dr. Lenert's work explores approaches for measurement of patients’ preferences and values and use of this information to promote better decision making and better communications between doctors and patients.

Dr. Lenert nationally recognized for his expertise in these areas. He is a member of the editorial boards of Medical Decision Making, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and Journal of Biomedical Informatics. He is also a member of the Agency for Health Research and Policy’s Healthcare Technology and Decision Sciences study section. In 2002, he appointed to the American College of Medical Informatics, largely in recognition of his work in this area.

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