CCEB Seminar-Joseph C Cappelleri, PhD, MPH, MS

"Methods for Interpretation of Patient-Reported Outcomes" Joseph C Cappelleri, PhD, MPH, MS Executive Director of Biostatistics, Pfizer Inc   Joseph C. Cappelleri, '91, has a palpable enthusiasm for learning, research and improving the human condition.Describing his time at Cornell as a spiritual one, he credits the College of Human Ecology with helping him find his intellectual identity and giving him the framework for a meaningful life."I found a foundation and home at Cornell," Cappelleri said. "Through faculty, students and other associations, I was able to find my intellectual voice. It was the cross-fertilization of being in an intellectual climate, having the right nurturing and supportive environment to bring out the best in me, and a community anchored in the enjoyment of thought, clarity and research for a higher purpose."As a statistical scientist, a medical researcher, and an executive director of biostatistics at Pfizer Inc, where he has been for the past 22 years, Cappelleri is considered one of the most prolific researchers in the pharmaceutical industry; he has co-authored approximately 450 publications and 900 external presentations. He is lead author on a book on patient-reported outcomes, co-authored another book on phase 2 clinical trials and co-edited a monograph on health economics and outcomes research. As an adjunct professor, he has served on the faculties at Brown University (biostatistics), Tufts Medical Center (medicine), and the University of Connecticut (statistics), where he has taught a semester-long course on epidemiology.