Associate Professor Marissa Lassere

Associate Professor Marissa Lassere MBBS (Hons) University of Sydney

Associate Professor Lassere graduated in medicine with honours from the University of Sydney in 1984, became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1991 and was awarded her PhD by the UNSW in 1998.

Associate Professor Lassere is a rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist with a strong interest in statistics, measurement, health informatics and patient-centred research. She has an established track record in performing collaborative clinical research. She chaired an international meeting of clinicians, statisticians, regulators, pharmaceutical industry and bench researchers on the statistical and substantive issues of surrogate validation and presented this work at international meetings (NCI/NIH Nov 2006 & 2007).

She has consistently attracted competitive research grant funding as CIA ~ $1,900,00 in the past 5 years (NHMRC, Commonwealth Department of Health) and is CIC on a 5 year NHMRC Enabling Grant ($1.5 million).

She has successfully attracted 18 peer-reviewed NHMRC and Arthritis Foundation of Australia grants, scholarships and has published 99 papers in peer-reviewed journals since 1990. She has successfully supervised three PhD students (awarded 2004, 2005, 2007). She has been an invited speaker at 14 international meetings since 2000 and chaired several plenary modules of OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology).

She is a member of the NSW State Shared Scientific Assessment Committee and the Australian Rheumatology Association Quality Group.