Organizing Committee Member
Francesco Chiappelli
Professor
California State University
Los Angeles
Biography
Professor Francesco Chiappelli, (Ph.D, 1986) (Dr. Endo, honoris causa 2014) has been a full tenured faculty member of the School of Dentistry, Center for the Health Sciences, at UCLA since the early 1990’s. He also contributes to the undergraduate biostatistics program of the Health Sciences department at California State University, Northridge as part-time faculty since 2015. Trained as a fundamental and clinical immunologist (NIAID fellowship), his initial field of research was cellular psychoneuroendocrine-immunology. Concerned by the loose nature of certain data sets in his field, Dr. Chiappelli soon focused on characterizing and optimizing the methodology for identifying the best available evidence. His work in the domain of research synthesis and systematic reviews contributed to the establishment and broad recognition of Evidence-Based Dentistry and Comparative Effectiveness Research in Healthcare, for which he was elected AAAS Fellow (2011), Fulbright Specialist (2009), Conjoint Professor for Research and Health Innovation (University of Newcastle, Australia, 2016), among other national and international honors. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed research and review papers, fifty book chapters, and a dozen books in the field of his expertise.
Research Area
His work in the domain of research synthesis and systematic reviews contributed to the establishment and broad recognition of Evidence-Based Dentistry and Comparative Effectiveness Research in Healthcare and cellular psychoneuroendocrine-immunology.