Prof. Dr. Tim Mathes
Group Prof. Mathes
telephone: +49 551 3964064
fax: +49 551 3965605
e-mail address: Tim.Mathes@med.uni-goettingen.de
location: Humboldtallee 32, EG 141
Short biography
Professional activity
[Since 10/2021]
Professor at the Department of Medical Statistics at the University Medical Center Göttingen
[01/2019 - 09/2021]
Research Associate, Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (Department of Evidence-based Health Services Research), Chair of Pneumology and Chair of Clinical Pharmacology, Witten/Herdecke University.
[08/2011 - 01/2019]
Research Associate, Institute for Research in Operative Medicine, Department of Evidence-based Health Services Research and Clinical Research, Witten/Herdecke University.
[08/2010 - 07/2017]
Student assistant and diploma student, Institute for Research in Operative Medicine, Department of Evidence-based Health Services Research and Clinical Research, Witten/Herdecke University.
[10/2007 - 12/2010]
Nursing assistant, Theo-Burauen-Haus of the Workers' Welfare Association, Cologne
[08/2005 - 09/2006]
Nursing assistant and community service, Klinikum Bremen-Mitte
PhD
[12/2014]
PhD thesis at the University of Witten/Herdecke
Training
[10/2014 - 07/2017]
Studies in medical biometry/biostatistics (Master) at the University of Heidelberg
[10/2006 - 07/2011]
Studies in Health Economics (Diploma) at the University of Cologne
Research interests
- Methods for meta-analysis in the case of few studies
- Evidence synthesis methods for harm endpoints
- Evidence synthesis methods for studies based on real-world data
- Assessing the transferability of evidence synthesis results
- Evidence-based patient information on harm endpoints
- Methods for evidence syntheses of economic studies
- Classification of study designs
- Use of registries for randomised controlled trials (registry-based RCTs)
- Bias sources of real-world data-based non-randomised trials
- International comparison of methods for health technology assessments
- Quantitative methods for studies in health services research (e.g. interrupted time series)
Professional societies and editor activities
Memberships and acitvities in professional societies:
- GMDS - German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology
- DKVF - German Network for Health Services Research
- EBM-Netzwerk - German Network for Evidence-Based Medicine
- Cochrane (Cochrane-Member)
- Department spokesman for the methodology department of the EBM network
Editor activities:
- Senior (Protocol) Editor, BMC Systematic Reviews
- Editorial-Board member (Associated Editor), BMC Medical Research Methodology
- Academic Editor, Plos One
Exam thesis
Dissertation at the University Witten/Herdecke
Title: Systematische Reviews von gesundheitsökonomischen Evaluationen – Methoden und Bedeutung für die Entscheidungsfindung
More information
More information can be found on Tim Mathes' profile at Researchgate.