Dr. Kevin Weinfurt

Biography

Kevin Weinfurt is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of the Faculty in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. He holds appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, as well as the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine. Dr. Weinfurt has experience as a part-time Special Governmental Employee at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he contributed to the Patient-Focused Drug Development initiative. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from Georgetown University, and his graduate studies included history and philosophy at Linacre College, Oxford. His research focuses on clinical outcome assessments, pragmatic trial methodology, and bioethics, with current work leading a coordinating center for the NIH Health Systems Research Collaboratory aimed at advancing pragmatic clinical trials. He has served on various advisory panels including the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections and has been involved as an educator in bioethics and research methods.

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