Maria Pisu, Ph.D.
Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
628 Medical Towers
1530 3rd Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294-4410
Office Phone: (205) 975-7366
FAX: (205) 934-4888
mpisu@uab.edu
Maria Pisu, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration with a secondary appointment in the Division of Preventive Medicine in the UAB Department of Medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University, and then worked for two years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a Prevention Effectiveness Fellow. In 2000, she joined UAB as a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE). She received training in economic methods for the evaluation of health interventions and econometric methods for the analysis of secondary data. Examples of her previous work consist of modeling the cost-effectiveness of hepatitis B vaccination of prison inmates, and analyzing health care utilization data from a randomized control trial of influenza vaccination of day-care children. Currently, she is the director of the Economic Evaluation and Modeling Unit of the COERE and she is working on the evaluation of an intervention to assist caregivers of Alzheimer and Parkinson disease patients and improve their quality of life, of an Internet-based intervention to improve the care of myocardial infarction patients, and of a similar Internet-based intervention to prevent glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis.