Kay Dickersin
| Kay Dickersin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 November 1951 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Residence | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Johns Hopkins University University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Professor, researcher |
| Known for | Research on publication bias, research on selective outcome reporting, strengthening research integrity, Cochrane Collaboration, consumer engagement in research |
Kay Dickersin (born November 10, 1951) is an academic who trained first in cell biology and subsequently epidemiology. She went on to a career studying factors that influence research integrity, in particular publication bias and outcome reporting bias. She is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of the Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis there. She is also Director of the US Cochrane Center and the US Satellite of the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group within the Cochrane Collaboration. Dickersin has received multiple awards for her research.
Dickersin’s formal academic and research training spans the basic, clinical, and public health sciences. Dickersin began an undergraduate degree at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, planning to major in art. After two years, she transferred undergraduate institutions to University of California, Berkeley. She received both a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Zoology (cell biology), from the UC Berkeley, in 1974 and 1975, respectively. She was awarded a PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1989. While an undergraduate, she received a Howard Hughes Fellowship in Medical Research in 1971, and during her PhD research she received an NIH traineeship.
Dickersin spent two months in Dorothy and Claude A. Villee’s research laboratory at Harvard University to complete a "field work term” at Bennington College. Her new interest in science led her to leave Bennington after 2 years, and to work in Allan Tobin’s lab in developmental biology at Harvard College. Subsequently, she transferred undergraduate institutions to University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, where she did undergraduate and master's degree research, she worked in Daniel Mazia’s lab. Her master’s thesis was “Increased Permeability of Sea Urchin Eggs to Adenine After Fertilization, Parthenogenetic Activation, and Exposure to Ammonia”. After her master's degree, Dickersin taught biology at two community colleges in California (West Valley College and Fullerton College) and subsequently worked in Roger Sloboda’s lab at Dartmouth College doing developmental biology research.
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