E. Andrew Balas

Who is E. Andrew Balas?

E. Andrew Balas M.D., Ph.D. serves as Dean and Professor at Georgia Health Sciences University. Balas is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine and also the Allied Health Research Institute.

Previously, he served as Dean of the College of Health Sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, Dean of the Saint Louis University School of Public Health, Director of the Missouri European Union Center and Weil Distinguished Professor of Health Policy at the University of Missouri.

During the 105th Congress, Andrew Balas served as Congressional Fellow for the Public Health and Safety Subcommittee of the United States Senate. He drafted the reauthorization act that created the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and launched one of the first government initiatives to prevent health care errors.

Most of his scholarly activities have been focused on digital knowledge management for health care improvement. Among others, Andrew Balas is the lead authors of the landmark study on the transfer of research evidence from clinical trials to patient care. The widely cited study estimated that it takes an average of 17 years to put new scientific evidence into practice.