CHP/PCOR
Stanford University
117 Encina Commons
Stanford, CA 94305-6019

jholty@stanford.edu
(650) 723-2114 (voice)
(650) 723-1919 (fax)

Research Interests
using decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis and meta-analysis to study bioterrorism, anthrax and lung-cancer staging

Jon-Erik Holty joined CHP/PCOR in July 2002 to participate in the VA's Ambulatory Care Practice and Research fellowship program. He is currently working toward a master's degree in health research and policy at Stanford, and in July 2005 he will begin a fellowship in pulmonary critical care, also at Stanford.

His work focuses on using decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis and meta-analysis to study bioterrorism and lung-cancer staging. He is involved in several research projects at CHP/PCOR, including a systematic review of inhalational anthrax cases since 1900; modeling the logistics of responding to a large U.S. anthrax attack; and evaluating the accuracy of transbronchial needle aspiration biopsy for staging in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. For the VA fellowship program, he supervises residents in the VA Palo Alto's emergency department.

Holty's research experience includes a summer at Columbia University's Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (1996), where he served as a research trainee under a program of the National Institutes of Health. He also has military experience, having served in the Marine Corps Reserves throughout college and during his first year of medical school. In 1995 he received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, the highest non-combat medal given in the Navy or Marine Corps.

Holty received a BS in biochemistry and political science from the University of California-Los Angeles, an MD from Columbia University, and completed an internal medicine residency at Stanford.