Kaleb Michaud, PhD
PhD, Stanford University, 2006
Co-Director, National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases (NDB)
Assistant Professor, Rheumatology & Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
Adjuct Affiliate, Center for Health Policy, Stanford University
Dr Michaud is Co-Director of the National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases (NDB), PI for the Rheumatoid Arthritis Investigator's Network (RAIN) Database, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He also assists with the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry and is a co-founder of the Arthritis Internet Registry with the Arthritis Foundation.
Dr. Michaud first worked with Dr. Fred Wolfe in 1992 and officially joined the NDB as its Senior Analyst in 2001. From 2004-2006 Kaleb was at Stanford as an ARHQ pre-doctoral fellow at PCOR and completed his PhD in Physics with Jay Battacharya acting as his primary advisor in 2006. His primary interests revolve around pharmacoepidemiology, health outcomes, quality of life and cost-effectiveness in rheumatology. He spends much of his timing working with and collaborating with others using the NDB, the world's largest long-term observational data bank in rheumatology with over 36,000 patients since 1998.
