Wm. Christopher Mathews, M.D., M.S.P.H.

Director, UCSD Owen Clinic
Professor of Clinical Medicine
UCSD Medical Center

200 W. Arbor Dr.
San Diego, CA 92103-8681
Mail Code 8681

Phone: (619) 543-2535
Fax: (619) 543-7841
Email :cmathews@ucsd.edu

 

Dr. Mathews received his medical degree from the University of Southern California in 1975; He completed his internship and residency at UCSD. He has been a member of the UCSD medical faculty since 1979 and is currently director of the Owen Clinic and Professor of Clinical Medicine.

Dr. Mathews completed residency training in internal medicine at UCSD in 1978 and joined the faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine. Between 1985-87, he attended UCLA School of Public Health as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, completing the M.S.P.H. degree in health services research and clinical epidemiology.

Dr. Mathews has served for 6 years as a member of the FDA Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee. His primary research interests are in HIV health services, quality of care, and international health. He has published papers utilizing many of the methodologies to be emphasized in our courses, including cohort analysis, case control designs, survival analysis, survey research, quality of life assessment, decision analysis, and diagnostic test evaluation. In addition, he taught a 9 month weekly seminar on biostatistics and epidemiologic methods for fellows and junior faculty for 8 years, prior to directing and teaching the CREST biostatistics core curriculum.Dr. Mathews directs the Basic Biostatistics I and II core modules.

Dr. Mathews has a strong interest in epidemiological and biostatistical methods in patient oriented research and has taught courses to fellows and junior faculty in these areas for over 10 years.




University of California, San Diego