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Sunitha Mathew
Vice President & Practice Director, Clinical Research
Contact
SunithaMathew@westat.comOverview
Sunitha Mathew, MS, is a Vice President and Practice Director for Clinical Research. She has extensive experience directing key business and health research initiatives pivotal to organizational growth, including 20+ years overseeing complex clinical, epidemiological, and translational research programs both domestically and internationally. She has directed coordinating center projects in precision medicine, blood banking and transfusion medicine practice, cancer epidemiology, and chronic disease prevention, successfully optimizing collaboration among stakeholders to maximize research outcomes.
Mathew is a thought leader in the use of cutting-edge data science techniques for linking, harmonizing, and making sense of “big data” such as electronic health records, claims, and other administrative data for research purposes. Mathew’s research uses innovative analysis techniques and tools to better understand the links between blood donor and component characteristics and adverse transfusion outcomes. This research will make an important contribution to clinical practice by improving the safety and effectiveness of transfusion therapies in both children and adults.
Education
- MS, Biotechnology, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.
- BS, Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Botany, University of Mysore, India
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Association between tobacco product use and asthma among US adults from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study waves 2-4
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BMJ Open Respiratory Research
January 2023
M.F. Brunette, M.J. Halenar, K.C. Edwards, Kristie Taylor, J.A. Emond, S.E. Tanski, S. Woloshin, et al.
DOILink for: Association between tobacco product use and asthma among US adults from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study waves 2-4 -
The Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-IV-Pediatric (REDS-IV-P): A research program striving to improve blood donor safety and optimize transfusion outcomes across the lifespan
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Transfusion
January 2022
C.D. Josephson, S. Glynn, Sunitha Mathew, R. Birch, S. Bakkour, L. Baumann Kreuziger, M.P. Busch, et al.
DOILink for: The Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-IV-Pediatric (REDS-IV-P): A research program striving to improve blood donor safety and optimize transfusion outcomes across the lifespan -
How do we...form and coordinate a national serosurvey of SARS-CoV-2 within the blood collection industry?
62,
Transfusion
January 2022
Rebecca Fink, L. Fisher, H. Sulaeman, H. Dave, M.E. Levy, L. McCann, C. Di Germanio, et al.
DOILink for: How do we...form and coordinate a national serosurvey of SARS-CoV-2 within the blood collection industry?