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Ethan M. Basch

Ethan M. Basch MD, MSc

Oncology, Healthcare Management
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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Dr. Basch is a practicing medical oncologist and health services researcher whose work focuses on the use of patient-reported measures to assess drug toxicity and symptom endpoints in clinical research, routine care, and quality assessment. His group established that the current approach to adverse event reporting in oncology misses essential information about the patient experience, which can be captured via direct patient reporting.

His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, the Lancet, Lancet Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. He leads the National Cancer Institute’s initiative to create a patient version of the standard lexicon for adverse event reporting in oncology trials, the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE). He is a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute, a member of the Methodology Committee of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Co-Chair of the Health Outcomes Committee for the Alliance cooperative group, Board Member of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL), and has led multiple guideline panels for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). His research is funded by grants and contracts from the NCI, Department of Defense, ASCO, and multiple foundations. He is currently a faculty member at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with ongoing research based at MSKCC, but spends most of his time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is Director of the Cancer Outcomes Research Program. Dr. Basch’s clinical focus is prostate cancer.
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