Maria A. Lopez-Olivo, MD, PhD

Dr. Lopez-Olivo is Assistant Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center with expertise in pharmacology, epidemiology, and evidence-based medicine and its application to clinical decision-making evidence-based medicine, and translation of evidence into practice. She has conducted several systematic reviews of drug therapies for the Cochrane Collaboration and two Health Technology Assessments. In addition, she has experience in the methodologies for economic evaluations and has collaborated in the translation of evidence into educational tools to inform patients with chronic conditions and facilitate decision-making. She leads the CERTaIN: Knowledge Synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Clinical Decision Making course.