Isabelle Boutron

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Isabelle Boutron (born February 14, 1971) is a professor of epidemiology at the Paris Descartes University^[1] and head of the INSERM- METHODS team within the Centre of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS). She was originally trained in rheumatology and later switched to a career in epidemiology and public health. She is also deputy director of the French EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) Centre, director of Cochrane France and co-convenor of the Bias Methods group of the Cochrane Collaboration.

Biography and education[]

Boutron graduated from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in rheumatology in 2002 and obtained her PhD in epidemiology in 2006. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford from 2008 to 2009, working under Douglas Altman.

After being trained in rheumatology, Boutron was awarded of a fellowship from the French Ministry of Health and a 2-year fellowship from the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris. With these fellowships, she switched her career focus to epidemiology and public health. She was awarded a PhD in epidemiology in 2006 and became assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Paris Diderot University in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics directed by Dr. Philippe Ravaud. After a postdoctoral position in the University of Oxford, she joined the Paris Descartes University as associate professor (2009-2012) and professor since 2012.

Scientific activities[]

Boutron's research activities mainly focus on investigating how clinical research is planned, conducted, and reported. She has worked on the internal and external validity of non-pharmacological trials, and co-led the extension of the CONSORT statement on reporting treatment trials for nonpharmacologic treatments.^[2][3] Along with her colleagues she edited a book entitled “Randomized Clinical Trials of Nonpharmacological Treatments.” She also investigates the distorted dissemination of research finding through publication bias, selective reporting of outcomes and spin defined as a distorted interpretation of research findings. Boutron has demonstrated the high prevalence of such distortion in the published scientific literature^[4][5] and shown how the biased presentation, and interpretation of research results may bias the interpretation of readers,^[6] which is a critically important aspect of the knowledge translation process.

Boutron has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, with 5 highly cited (i.e.top 1%) articles as first or second author. She is an academic editor for the academic journals [[BMC Med] and [PLoS Biology]]. She is responsible for the teaching programs in Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, for medical students at Université de Paris, and is co-leader (with Pr. Ravaud) of the international Master 2 program, Comparative Effectiveness Research

Academic awards and honors[]

• Award Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy, Académie des sciences (2014)

Personal[]

Isabelle Boutron is married to Emmanuel Boutron. She has two children: Antoine born in 1999 and Augustin born in 2003.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

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