About CERTs
Steering Committee
Alvin I. Mushlin, MD, ScM
Dr. Mushlin is the principal investigator of the Weill Cornell Medical Center CERTs. He is also Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He holds a joint appointment as Public Health Physician-in-Chief at New York-Presbyterian Hospital's Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Mushlin's research interests focus on the application of decision and cost-effectiveness analysis to the evaluation of clinical policies and medical technologies. Dr. Mushlin led one of the first cost-effectiveness studies to be conducted alongside a randomized clinical trial of a medical device, the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial (MADIT). He has been a consultant to many national groups, including the Clinical Efficacy Assessment Project of the American College of Physicians, the National Blue Cross Association, and the United States Preventive Health Services Task Force. Dr. Mushlin earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at Vanderbilt University. After internship and residency in internal medicine at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, he joined the initial group of Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars at Johns Hopkins University where he completed his medical residency and a Master's of Science degree in Public Health.