Katherine M. Detre, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology
Director, Epidemiology Data Center
Department of Epidemiology
A531 Crabtree Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Voice: 412-624-5595
E-mail: detre@edc.pitt.edu

Research Interests

Coronary Artery Disease Clinical Trials - Evaluation of Therapies Epidemiological Methods

Education & Training
  • Queen's University Medical School, Canada - M.D. Medicine, 1952
  • Yale University- M.P.H. Biometry, 1964
  • Yale University- Dr.P.H. Biometry, 1967
Selected Publications

Kip KE, Alderman EL Bourassa MG, Brooks MM Schwartz L, Holmes DR Jr, Califf RM, Whitlow PL, Chaitman BR, Detre KM, for the BARI investigators. Differential influence of diabetes mellitus on increased jeopardized myocardium after initial angioplasty of bypass surgery. Accepted: Circulation, 2002

VanderSalm T, Kip KE, Jones Rh, Schaff HV, Shemin RJ, Aldea GS, Detre KM. What constitutes optimal surgical revascularization: answers from BARI. Accepted: J Am Coll Cardiol, 2002

Bourassa MG, Detre KM, Johnston JM, Viachos HA, Holubkov R. Effect of prior revascularization on outcome following percutaneous coronary intervention: NHLBI dynamic registry. Accepted: Eur Heart J, 2002

Detre KM, Holubkov R. Coronary revascularization on balance: Robert L. Frye Lecture. Mayo Clin Proc 2002;77:72-82

BARI Investigators. Seven-year outcome in the bypass angioplasty revascularization investigation (BARI), by treatment and presence of diabetes. J Am Coll Cardiol 2002;23:14-18

Berger PB, Belianou JL, Vlachos HA, Feit F, Jacobs Ak, Faxon DP, Attubato M, Keller N, Stadius ML, Weiner BH, Williams DO, Detre KM, on behalf of the BARI investigators. Survival following coronary angioplasty versus coronary artery bypass surgery in anatomic subsets in which coronary artery bypass surgery improves survival compared with medical therapy. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001;38:1440-1449

Detre KM, Kip KE, Feinleib M, Matthews KA, Belle S. Mortality of males to females in comparable high-level jobs: 15 year experience in the Federal Women's Study. Am J Epidemiol 2001;154:221-229

Krone RJ, Hardison RM, Chairman BR, Gibbons RJ, Sopko G, Bach R, Detre KM. Risk stratification after successful coronary revascularization: the lack of a role for routine exercise testing. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001;38:136-142

Suwaidi A, Jassim MB, Ye W, Cohen HA, Detre KM, Williams Do, Holmes DR. Immediate and one-year outcome in patients with coronary bifurcation lesions in the modern era and the NHLBI dynamic registry. Am J Cardiol 2001;87:1139-1144

Laskey WK, Wiliams DO, Vlachos HA, Cohen H, Holmes DR, King SB, Kelsey SF, Slaer J, Faxon D, Al-Bassam M, Block E, Detre KM. Changes in the practice of percutaneous coronary intervention: a comparison of enrollment waves in the NHLBI dynamic registry. Am J Cardiol 2001;87:964-969


 
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