Christopher G. Rowan PhD | Principal Investigator & Board Member

Christopher G. Rowan PhD (Chris) is the Founder and Principal Investigator of Veritas Research Foundation (501(c)(3)) and Adjunct Associate Professor at Rutgers University Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science (PETS). He is a pharmacoepidemiologist, biostatistician, and drug safety researcher by training. Chris has extensive experience using comparative methods to estimate causal relationships between medication exposure and adverse drug events (ADEs). His research vision is to safeguard public health using innovative strategies to detect, quantify, and confirm drug related harm.

Chris is experienced in designing and executing retrospective, observational drug safety studies using electronic health record (EHR) and health insurance claims databases – in a variety of disease and therapeutic areas. His recent publications include comparative safety/effectiveness research, predictive modeling studies, and methodologic investigations. His research proficiencies include advanced study design and analytic approaches to address confounding and selection bias, interpretation of research findings, and dissemination through peer reviewed publications (abstracts and manuscripts).

Chris received his Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiology with a minor in Biostatistics (specialty in pharmacoepidemiology) from the University of Pennsylvania. He received the 2010 Saul Winegrad award for outstanding dissertation. Chris conducted a pre-doctoral fellowship at the FDA in the Division of Drug Risk Evaluation. He is an active member of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) and serves as Statistical Reviewer for JAMA Network Open and is a regular reviewer for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety (PDS) and other prominent medical journals.