The newly introduced research track, launched in July 2019, was established to provide selected and highly motivated residents in the residency program with opportunities for research that include skill-building didactic and group sessions with mentored research experiences.
Soko Setoguchi, MD, DrPH, a cardiologist by training, board-certified general internist, and epidemiologist, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) and at Rutgers School of Public Health. She serves as the Director of Clinical Research Education in Department of Medicine. She is also the new Co-Director of the Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Science (MS-CTS) at Rutgers School of Graduate Studies. After her medical school and training in Cardiology in Japan, she completed her doctoral training in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. She was on the research faculty in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and at Duke Clinical Research Institute before she completed US residency training in Internal Medicine at University of North Carolina Hospital and then RWJMS. Dr. Setoguchi is an international leader in the field of pharmacoepidemiology, the study of the health effects of medications and other medical products in populations. She has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed papers in leading medical journals and has been funded by both federal and non-federal sources for her pharmacoepidemiology research program. Her research uses large databases to perform health services and outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research for medications and implantable medical devices in patients with chronic disease.
