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Dr. Marsolo is a Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences (DPHS) and a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).  His current research focuses on infrastructure to support the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other real-world data sources in observational and comparative effectiveness research and public health surveillance, as well as standards and architectures for multi-center learning health systems.  He is co-Principal Investigator of the Common Data Model service of the Coordinating Center for the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet), a co-lead of the Data Infrastructure core of the FDA-funded Sentinel Innovation Center, and co-lead of the electronic health record (EHR) core of the Coordinating Center of the NIH Pragmatic Clinical Trials Collaboratory.  Dr. Marsolo received his PhD in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, with a dissertation on data mining, specifically the modeling and classification of biomedical data.