Bio
Dr. Michael Terrin is an internist with subspecialty certification in pulmonary medicine, and an MPH in epidemiology. Dr. Terrin has directed or been deputy director of Coordinating Centers for more than 25 studies with emphases on clinical trials and cohort studies. In 1979-1982, he held a cardiovascular epidemiology training grant at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
He led the Data Coordinating Center for the NHLBI-sponsored Multicenter Study of Hydroxyurea (MSH) in Sickle Cell Anemia and for the NHLBI-sponsored FOCUS clinical trial comparing transfusion strategies. He was responsible for the data coordination of a landmark study in pulmonary embolism (PIOPED) and for the portion of the first NHLBI-initiated thrombolytic agent clinical trials, TIMI I and TIMI II, that discovered t-PA’s dose and patient characteristic-dependent risk of cerebral hemorrhage in acute myocardial infarction.
He is currently contact and Data Coordinating Center (DCC) Principal Investigator for the NIA-sponsored Non-Invasive Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Clinical Trial (N-TA3CT), DCC Principal Investigator for the NICHD-sponsored Azithromycin to Prevent BPD in Ureaplasma-Infected Preterms (AZIP3), Principal Investigator for the NHLBI Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium (PCBC) Administrative Coordinating Center and Principal Investigator for the NHLBI Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium (PCTC) Administrative Coordinating Center.
Dr. Terrin is co-Principal Investigator of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core (Core 1) of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Older Americans Independence Center (Claude D. Pepper Center). Dr. Terrin has served in a mentorship capacity to associate professors and assistant professors who have established research independence.
Dr. Terrin is a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Gerontology, and on the Department’s training grant (T32) for the Epidemiology of Aging. Dr. Terrin as dedicated his career to the design, conduct and analysis of clinical investigations with an emphasis on coordinating center data functions.