Dr. Alexis Ogdie is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine. She is also Deputy Director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Director of the Penn Psoriatic Arthritis and Spondyloarthritis Program. Dr. Ogdie’s research program focuses on pharmacoepidemiology and observational studies of psoriatic arthritis, an inflammatory arthritis that affects approximately 25% of patients with psoriasis and about 500,000 Americans. Her research program aims to improve outcomes in psoriatic arthritis by accelerating diagnosis, increasing the focus on meaningful, patient-centered outcomes, and developing and advancing methods for precision medicine. Areas of expertise include epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology, biostatistical methods for observational studies (e.g., time to event modeling, prediction modeling), outcome measures (e.g., qualitative and quantitative/psychometric assessment), clinical trial design, and more general qualitative methods (e.g., survey, focus group, and interview studies).