Nora Hutchinson, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Nora Hutchinson, M.D.,C.M., MPhil, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She is a practicing hospitalist and holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from McGill University and a Master of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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She is board-certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Prior to joining faculty at UCSF in September 2023, Dr. Hutchinson combined clinical work as a hospitalist at the Massachusetts General Hospital with research as a postdoctoral researcher at the Multi-Regional Clinical Trial Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard. Her focus on meta-research, clinical trials, and research ethics emerged during her time as an Internal Medicine fellow and postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Santé.
Dr. Hutchinson seeks to improve research practices so that the conduct and output of research reflect what is most valued by patients. This has shaped her prior work on the patient contribution to clinical trials, early trial termination, novel clinical trial designs, research informativeness, and the ethics of pragmatic clinical trials and learning health systems.
Education & Training
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- Internal Medicine Residency Training Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital
- MPhil History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine Cambridge University
- Internal Medicine Fellowship Training McGill University
- M.D.,C.M. Medicine McGill University
Interests
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- Research Ethics
- Meta-Research
- Clinical Trials
Publications (16)
Top publication keywords:
Clinical Trials as TopicEthics, MedicalPediatricsBiological ProductsTechnology Assessment, BiomedicalComprehensionPatient ParticipationNeoplasmsConsumer Health InformationResearch DesignDrug ApprovalDrugs, InvestigationalTruth DisclosureAntineoplastic AgentsClinical Trials, Phase I as Topic
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A scoping review of challenges in pediatric health technology assessments with a focus on pharmaceutical interventions.
International journal of technology assessment in health care 2025 Hutchinson N, Otterman LS, Bain PA, Koppelman E, Bierer BE -
Integrating N-of-1 Trials Into Learning Health Care Systems.
JAMA neurology 2025 Brown JEH, Chiong W, Hutchinson N -
Probability of Regulatory Approval Over Time: A Cohort Study of Cancer Therapies.
JCO oncology practice 2023 Hutchinson N, Bicer S, Feldhake E, Carlisle BG, Gonen M, Del Paggio J, Kimmelman J -
Large numbers of patients are needed to obtain additional approvals for new cancer drugs: A retrospective cohort study.
Scientific reports 2023 Ouimet C, Hutchinson N, Wang C, Matyka C, Del Paggio JC, Kimmelman J -
Timing for First-in-Minor Clinical Trials of New Cancer Drugs.
The Journal of pediatrics 2023 Bicer S, Hutchinson N, Feldhake E, Nelson A, Oliviero E, Waligóra M, Kimmelman J
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How to limit uninformative trials: Results from a Delphi working group.
Med (New York, N.Y.) 2023 Gelinas L, Hutchinson N, Zarin DA, Bierer BE -
Disclosure of Possible Trial Termination to Participants of Interventional Clinical Trials.
JAMA 2023 Hutchinson N, Gelinas L, Zarin D, Bierer BE -
Competition for recruitment in SARS-CoV-2 Trials in the United States: a longitudinal cohort analysis.
BMC research notes 2022 Hutchinson N, Klas K, Carlisle BG, Polak M, Kimmelman J, Waligora M -
The proportion of randomized controlled trials that inform clinical practice.
eLife 2022 Hutchinson N, Moyer H, Zarin DA, Kimmelman J -
Quantifying Patient Investment in Novel Neurological Drug Development.
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2022 MacPherson A, Gumnit E, Ouimet C, Hutchinson N, Kieburtz K, Pearson TS, Kimmelman J -
How informative were early SARS-CoV-2 treatment and prevention trials? a longitudinal cohort analysis of trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.
PloS one 2022 Hutchinson N, Klas K, Carlisle BG, Kimmelman J, Waligora M -
Patient Participation in Clinical Trials of Oncology Drugs and Biologics Preceding Approval by the US Food and Drug Administration.
JAMA network open 2021 Hutchinson N, Carlisle B, Doussau A, Bosan R, Gumnit E, MacPherson A, Fergusson DA, Kimmelman J -
Probability of Success and Timelines for the Development of Vaccines for Emerging and Reemerged Viral Infectious Diseases.
Annals of internal medicine 2020 MacPherson A, Hutchinson N, Schneider O, Oliviero E, Feldhake E, Ouimet C, Sheng J, Awan F, Wang C, Papenburg J, Basta NE, Kimmelman J -
The proportion of North American cancer trials that evaluate novel targets.
Investigational new drugs 2020 Gumnit E, Feustel AC, Wong S, Bosan R, Hutchinson N, Kimmelman J -
Ethical and Policy Issues for Seamless Phase I Oncology Trials.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2019 Hutchinson N, Vinarov E, Iasonos A, Kimmelman J -
Examining the Reading Level of Internet Medical Information for Common Internal Medicine Diagnoses.
The American journal of medicine 2016 Hutchinson N, Baird GL, Garg M