Richard Riegelman, MD, PhD
Richard Riegelman, MD, PhD, is a professor of Epidemiology-Biostatistics
and Founding Dean of the George Washington University School
of Public Health and Health Services. Dr. Riegelman came to
GWUMC as a Primary Care Internal Medicine resident in 1976
and joined the faculty in Medicine and Health Care Sciences
in 1978. During his early years on the faculty he had responsibility
for development of the preventive medicine curriculum and
the Master of Public Health program in the School of Medicine
and Health Sciences. He practiced primary care internal medicine
for 20 years as part of the GW Medical Faculty Associates.
Dr. Riegelman has over 50 publications, including contributions
to epidemiology methods, as well as 6 books for students and
practitioners of medicine and public health. Studying a Study
and Testing a Test: How to Read the Medical Evidence has sold
over 70,000 copies in its first four editions and is widely
used to teach evaluation of the health research literature.
His other books include: The Measures of Medicine, Minimizing
Medical Mistakes, Putting Prevention into Practice, Statistical
First-Aid, and Statistical Operations.
As Founding Dean of The George Washington University's School
of Public Health and Health Services, Dr. Riegelman brought
together public health and health services programs and expanded
training to include Ph.D. and Doctor of Public Health degrees.
He launched initiatives in long-term care, health law and
policy, health services research, community oriented primary
care, health information systems, health communications and
distance education. Under his leadership the School of Public
Health and Health Services expanded its research and educational
programs to include four research Centers and nearly 1000
on-campus and distance education students at the undergraduate,
graduate certificate, masters and doctoral levels.
- Courses/Teaching Interests:
- Biostatistics
- Research methods
- Epidemiology
- Qualitative methods in health policy analysis
