Dr Martin Duracinsky, MD, PhD, is clinician in the Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology Department of Bicetre hospital (Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris). He teaches methodology of clinical research at Paris-Diderot University.
As a researcher, his main research topic is on Patient-Centered Outcomes and new modes of administration (electronic, ePRO, ecohort). He has developed and validated several Patient-Reported Outcomes questionnaires, among them the specific symptoms and quality of life PROQOL-HIV questionnaire for people living with HIV in 9 countries. He is responsible of the unit “Methodological assessment of clinical endpoints, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research” within the Paris-Diderot University research team: EA 7334 REMES, Recherche Clinique ville-hôpital, Méthodologies & Société. Among current projects, he leads several international validation studies with Brazil and Australia, such on quality of life in patients with viral hepatitis C, and on sexual dysfunction and a project to optimize the screening strategy of infectious diseases (Tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis B and C) among migrants in France.
He currently supervises a PhD student (2015-2018), and he supervises several students in master, and in thesis of medicine and pharmacy.
