Curtis Meinert, PhD, is a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  He is the founding father of the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Trials and was Director of the Center from its inception in 1990 until he stepped aside in September 2005.  He received his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Minnesota in 1964.  Throughout his career he has been involved in the design and conduct of more than twenty clinical trials, starting with the University Group Diabetes Program in the 1960s.  He was a founding member of the Society for Clinical Trials, served on it first Board of Directors, and was Editor of its Journal, Controlled Clinical Trials from its inception in 1980 until 1993.  In 1999 the Society for Clinical Trials Executive Committee approved a proposal to establish a keynote address at the annual SCT meetings and that the lecture would be know as the “Curtis Meinert Keynote Address”.  The first “Curtis Meinert Honorary Keynote Address” was at the annual meeting in 2000.  In 2006, the Society named him in the inaugural group of individual to be recognized as a Fellow of the Society.  In November 2006 at the 134 Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, he received the Statistics Section Award “For his leadership and unstinting service promoting the role of randomized, controlled clinical trials, including: founding the Center for Clinical Trials, founding and serving as editor of the journal Controlled Clinical Trials, and training and mentoring generations of specialists and experts in clinical trials.”

Dr. Meinert is the author of several textbooks and dictionaries, Clinical Trials: Design, Conduct and Analysis (Meinert and Tonascia, 1986, Oxford University Press; Clinical Trials: Design, Conduct and Analysis, Second Edition (Meinert, 2012, Oxford University Press; An Insider’s Guide to Clinical Trials (Meinert, 2011, Oxford University Press); Clinical Trials Handbook Design and Conduct (Meinert, 2012, Wiley); Clinical Trials Dictionary: Terminology and Usage Recommendations (Meinert, 1996, Center for Clinical Trials, publisher, Baltimore) and Clinical Trials Dictionary: Terminology and Usage Recommendations, Second Edition (Meinert, 2012, Wiley).  He has been active on the Institutional Review Boards for both the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.  His current research interests involve writing “Good Practice Policies and Procedures” for clinical trials, as well as writing about methodological issues in clinical trials.