Danielle Whicher, MHS is a Project Manager at CMTP and is pursuing a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has been involved in a wide range of projects concerning comparative effectiveness research, health technology assessments, and pragmatic clinical trials and has published several articles on these topics. Ms. Whicher has also been involved in planning a number of large conferences at CMTP including one on Pragmatic Clinical Trials in May 2009, the 2011 CER Institute, and was the project manager for the course CMTP taught at the AcademyHealth 2010 Annual Research Meeting on Pragmatic Clinical Trials in Comparative Effectiveness Research. Ms. Whicher holds a Masters in Health Science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.