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Branko Kopjar is a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington.[1]

He is best known for his contributions in the 1990s to the field of injury prevention and his later work on spine, orthopedic and spinal cord injury research.[2] In addition, he has been published in several top journals in the fields of cardiology,[3] oncology,[4] public health, neurosurgery and orthopedics[1] resulting in a total of more than 500 articles, reports, reviews and abstracts.[1] Prior to joining the University of Washington, Dr. Kopjar served as the Research Director for the Norwegian Foundation for Health Services Research, Head of the Section for Preventive Medicine at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and as a Ministerial Adviser on health policy to two European governments.[1] He was a participant at the World Injury Conference meetings held in Melbourne, Australia in 1995.[5]

One of his most notable publications include a 2002 sole-authorship which showed that Azithromycin is effective in patients with chronic bronchitis. The findings were published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.[6]

A year later, he partnered with the Veterans Health Administration to conduct a study on nearly 9,000 patients suffering from coronary heart disease. The research examined how adherence to prescribed statins impacted secondary prevention of coronary heart disease.[7]

In 2013, Dr. Kopjar was a co-author on a paper which for the first time showed that surgical decompression is an effective procedure to treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy, a common disease of the spine that can lead to paralysis.[8]

In 2016, he was a co-author on a paper which showed that surgical intervention, in combination with radiation and chemotherapy, improves outcomes for patients whose cancer has metastasized to the spinal cord.[9]

Dr. Kopjar was a study author on a 2018 publication in the Journal of Neurosurgery which led to a label change for i-FACTOR™ Peptide Enhanced Bone Graft.[10]

In 2020, Dr. Kopjar, along with Drs. Edward. T Davis and Joseph Pagkalos, published a paper on the effects of bearing surfaces on the survival of cementless and hybrid total hip arthroplasty (THA). The paper was a culmination of a multi-year effort that involved analyzing more than 420,000 primary THAs.[11] Clinicians had for years speculated on the likelihood that bearing surface does in fact impact the long-term patient outcomes. THA is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in the world as more than 5% of people will undergo the procedure by the age of 80.[12]

Dr. Kopjar's work has been recognized with several awards including the John M. Eisenberg Best Paper Award issued by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,[1] and the 2013,[13] 2014,[14] 2015[15] and 2016[16] Best Paper or Outstanding Paper Awards issued by the North American Spine Society. He is a member of the North American Spine Society's Performance Measurement Committee and its Outcomes Compendium Task Force.[17]

Dr. Kopjar is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology.[18] and of the Academy of Translational Medicine. He holds a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Economics and Epidemiology. Dr. Kopjar also holds a Master of Science in biostatistics and as part of his post-graduate work he completed a research fellowship in health statistics.[1]

In 2017 he was appointed as a visiting consultant to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, a National Health Service hospital in Northfield, England. As of 2019, Dr. Kopjar is a faculty member and the program director for the Executive Master of Public Health program at the University of Washington School of Public Health. The MPH program is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 in the United States.[19] He is also a faculty member in the Master of Health Administration program at the same university,[20] which is also a top 10 program.[21] In 2014, Dr. Kopjar was honored with a five-year Distinguished Professorship to the Orthopaedic Department at Chongqing Medical University in Chongqing, P.R. China.,[22][1] a World Health Organization-recognized teaching hospital.[23]

As of 2020, Dr. Kopjar serves as a consultant to the FDA's Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices panel.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h https://depts.washington.edu/hserv/faculty/Kopjar_Branko
  2. ^ Neckerman, Kathryn (2004). Social Inequality. Russell Sage Foundation. pp. 252–267. ISBN 1610444205. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
  3. ^ Miller, Rosalie R.; Li, Yu-Fang; Sun, Haili; Kopjar, Branko; Sales, Anne E.; Piñeros, Sandra L.; Fihn, Stephan D. (July 2003). "Underuse of cardioprotective medications in patients prior to acute myocardial infarction". The American Journal of Cardiology. 92 (2): 209–211. doi:10.1016/s0002-9149(03)00541-1. PMID 12860227.
  4. ^ Nater, Anick; Tetreault, Lindsay A.; Kopjar, Branko; Arnold, Paul M.; Dekutoski, Mark B.; Finkelstein, Joel A.; Fisher, Charles G.; France, John C.; Gokaslan, Ziya L.; Rhines, Laurence D.; Rose, Peter S.; Sahgal, Arjun; Schuster, James M.; Vaccaro, Alexander R.; Fehlings, Michael G. (1 September 2018). "Predictive factors of survival in a surgical series of metastatic epidural spinal cord compression and complete external validation of 8 multivariate models of survival in a prospective North American multicenter study". Cancer. 124 (17): 3536–3550. doi:10.1002/cncr.31585. PMID 29975401.
  5. ^ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ice/ice95v2/ice_ii.pdf
  6. ^ Kopjar, B. (1 September 2002). "Azithromycin is effective in patients with chronic bronchitis". Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 50 (3): 433–a–434. doi:10.1093/jac/dkf114. PMID 12205072.
  7. ^ https://www.ajconline.org/article/S0002-9149(03)01047-6/fulltext
  8. ^ "New treatment for 'arthritis of the spine' prevents paralysis".
  9. ^ Fehlings, Michael G.; Nater, Anick; Tetreault, Lindsay; Kopjar, Branko; Arnold, Paul; Dekutoski, Mark; Finkelstein, Joel; Fisher, Charles; France, John; Gokaslan, Ziya; Massicotte, Eric; Rhines, Laurence; Rose, Peter; Sahgal, Arjun; Schuster, James; Vaccaro, Alexander (20 January 2016). "Survival and Clinical Outcomes in Surgically Treated Patients With Metastatic Epidural Spinal Cord Compression: Results of the Prospective Multicenter AOSpine Study". Journal of Clinical Oncology. 34 (3): 268–276. doi:10.1200/JCO.2015.61.9338. PMID 26598751.
  10. ^ https://ryortho.com/breaking/additional-fda-approval-for-cerapedics-i-factor-bone-graft/
  11. ^ Davis, Edward T.; Pagkalos, Joseph; Kopjar, Branko (2020). "Effect of Bearing Surface on Survival of Cementless and Hybrid Total Hip Arthroplasty". JBJS Open Access. 5 (2): e0075. doi:10.2106/JBJS.OA.19.00075.
  12. ^ Maradit Kremers, Hilal; Larson, Dirk R.; Crowson, Cynthia S.; Kremers, Walter K.; Washington, Raynard E.; Steiner, Claudia A.; Jiranek, William A.; Berry, Daniel J. (2 September 2015). "Prevalence of Total Hip and Knee Replacement in the UnitedStates". The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume. 97 (17): 1386–1397. doi:10.2106/JBJS.N.01141. PMC 4551172. PMID 26333733.
  13. ^ http://www.thespinejournalonline.com/issue/S1529-9430(13)X0011-7
  14. ^ "Outstanding papers in spine: 3 recipients at NASS".
  15. ^ http://www.thespinejournalonline.com/issue/S1529-9430(15)X0003-9
  16. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  17. ^ "Branko Kopjar - Profile | North American Spine Society".
  18. ^ http://engage.washington.edu/site/MessageViewer?em_id=173842.0&dlv_id=0
  19. ^ "About | UW School of Public Health".
  20. ^ "Faculty | UW MHA - Master of Health Administration – Seattle".
  21. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2012-02-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  22. ^ "Faculty | UW Executive Master of Public Health Degree - Online & Seattle".
  23. ^ Chongqing Medical University
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