BENOIT D. TANO, M.D.,Ph.D.
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EDUCATION:
M.D., Medical College of Ohio, School of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio, June 1999
Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, 1988, Economics
Fields of Specialization: Econometrics, Labor Economics
M. A., State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, 1983, Economics
Field of Specialization: Econometrics
B. S., the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, August 1994, Biology
Maîtrise D’économie Appliquée (BS), Option : Economie Publique, Université D’Abidjan, Abidjan, Côte D’Ivoire, 1980, Economics
Honors: Mention Bien
Licence D’économie Appliquée (BA), Option : Economie Publique, Université D’Abidjan, Abidjan, Côte D’Ivoire 1979, Economics
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION:
Fellowship in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Department of Medicine/Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, June 2006
GlaxoSmithKline/Ohio State University Medical Center, Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research Fellowship, June 2004
Internal Medicine Residency, Ohio State University Medical Center, Department
Of Internal Medicine, June 2002
CERTIFYING EXAMINATIONS:
Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2002
Certified, American Board of Allergy and Immunology, 2006
PERMANENT MEDICAL LICENSES:
State of Ohio Medical License # 35.80344
North Carolina Medical License # 200301297
Texas State Medical Board License # M4963
Virginia Board of Medicine License # 0101245503
AWARDS:
August 1998 Medical College of Ohio Bookstore Award: Presented to non-traditional students in recognition of their academic achievement.
1980 - 1982 National Merit Scholarships awarded by the Government of Côte D’Ivoire for graduate studies in the U. S.
1976 - 1980 National Scholarships awarded by the Government of Côte D’Ivoire
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS / EMPLOYMENT:
July 1, 2008-Present, Director, The Center for Asthma, Allergy, Immunology & Hormone Health, Tyler, Texas and Woodbridge, Virginia
November 17, 2008-November 17, 2009, Staff Physician (Allergy & Immunology-Contractor), Dewitt Army Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir,Virginia.
July 1, 2006-July 1, 2008, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division ofAllergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas.
July 1, 2004-June 2006, Clinical Allergy and Immunology Fellowship, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
July 2003-June 2004, GSK/OSU Pharmacoeconomics/Health Outcomes Research Fellowship, GlaxoSmithKline, Global Health Outcomes-North America, Respiratory,
Five Moore Drive, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina .
July 2002-June 2003, GSK/OSU Pharmacoeconomics/Health Outcomes Research Fellowship, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine/ Center for HOPES, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.
June 1999-June 2002, Internship and Residency, Department of internal medicine, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.
August 1994 - September 1996, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio.
Courses Taught: Advanced Labor Economics, Principles, Intermediate and Advanced Macroeconomics; Principles and Intermediate Microeconomics; Economics for Business Decisions Making (graduate level); Managerial Economics; Principles of Microeconomics (honors course) and Econometrics.
August 1988 - August 1994, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio.
Courses Taught: See above
August 1987 – June 1988, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, SUNY - Cortland, Cortland, New York.
Courses Taught: Two sections of intermediate microeconomic theory, a section of computer applications in management and economics including laboratory sessions; a section of managerial economics.
August 1986 – January 1987, Lecturer, Department of Economics, the University at Albany, Albany, New York.
Courses Taught: Full responsibility as instructor of two sections of principles of macroeconomics.
August 1984 - August 1986 - Research Consultant. Consulting for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences’ Research Facilities Center at SUNY - Albany.
Duties: Training and helping graduate students and faculty to use microcomputers (IBM PCs and Apple Computers).
January 1983 – January 1984, Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, SUNY - Albany, Albany, N. Y
TEACHING EXPERIENCE WHILE IN MEDICAL SCHOOL:
Fall 1997 and 1998, Co-teaching of Health Care Economics elective course with Dr. Anand Mutgi, Medical College of Ohio, School of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio.
Fall 1996, Creation and teaching of Health Care Economics elective course, Medical College of Ohio, School of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio.
PUBLICATIONS:
I. Clinical:
1. Tano B, Hoffmann S, Pathak D. Cost-Effectiveness of AdvairÒ (Fluticasone Propionate and Salmeterol Combination): A Review. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 741-747, December 2003
2. Khuder, S. A., A. Mutgi, E. Schaub, B. Tano. Meta-Analysis of Hodgkin’s disease Among Farmers. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Environmental Health, 1999; 25(5): 436-441
Abstracts:
1. Tano BD, All That Wheezes is not Asthma: Misclassification, Comorbidities and Treatment Outcomes in Acute Asthma Exacerbations. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Volume 121 , Issue 2 , Pages S162 - S162, February 2008
2. Tano BD, Race, asthma exacerbations and Leaving Against Medical Advice (LAMA) Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Vol. 119, issue 1, supplement 1, Page S7, January 2007
3. Tano BD, Leaving Against Medical Advice (LAMA) in Asthma Exacerbation: Characteristics and Determinants of Leavers. Value Health 9 (3): A100-A100, May 2006
4. Tano BD, Bilderback AL, Rand CS, Krishnan JA. Heliox in the Treatment of Patients Hospitalized for Asthma Exacerbations. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Vol. 117, No. 2: S95-S95, February 2006
5. Tano BD, Stanford R, Pathak D. Aggregating Cost Data from Multi-center Clinical Trials: An Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Elasticity Approach. Value Health 7 (3): 303-303, May 2004
6. Tano BD, Transitions between Mild, Moderate and Severe Asthma States and their Determinants: A Logistic Regression Approach. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Vol. 113, No. 2: S272-S272, February 2004
7. J. Mauskopf, T Shih, R.D. Borker, B. Tano, R. Stanford, P. Jhingran, Budget Model for Estimating Economic Impact of Fluticasone Propionate/Salmeterol via Diskus® in an Adult Asthma Population. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Vol. 113, No. 2: S80-S80, February 2004
8. Tano B D, Hoffmann S, Pathak D., Heliox in the Treatment of Status Asthmaticus: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis. Value Health 6 (6): 776-776, Nov-Dec 2003
9. Tano BD, Sood N, Hoffmann S, Pathak D. Treatment of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH): A Cost-utility Analysis. Value Health 6 (3): 308-308, May-June 2003
Abstracts while in medical school
10. Akpunonu, B. E., A. Mutgi, S. Khuder, D. Federman and B. Tano. Which Calcium Channel Antagonist (CCA) is Superior in Hypertension? A Meta
Analysis. Hypertension, Vol. 29, No. 3, March 1997, p 842.
11. Selman, S. H., B. Tano, Carcinoma of the Prostate: ``Latent” to ``Clinically Insignificant”. A Historical Perspective. The Journal of Urology, vol. 161, No. 4, Supplement, May 1999, p. 186
PRESENTATIONS DURING ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY FELLOWSHIP AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS ASTHMA AND ALLERGY CENTER (JHAAC):
1. COPD Outcomes Tools (presented at MEDTAP, 2005)
2. Exercise-induced Anaphylaxis (EIA) and Urticaria (presented at JHAAC, Wednesday Noon Conference, 2005)
3. Venom Immunotherapy-induced Anaphylaxis (presented at JHAAC, Wednesday Noon Conference, 2005)
4. Progression of Asthma Measured by Lung Function in the Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) (presented at JHAAC, Wednesday Noon Conference, 2005)
5. Probiotics (presented at JHAAC, Wednesday Noon Conference, 2005)
6. Heliox in the Treatment of Acute Asthma Exacerbation: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (presented at JHAAC, Wednesday Noon Conference, 2005)
7. All that Wheeze is not asthma: Diagnosis and Treatment of Concomitant Asthma and COPD (presented at JHAAC, Wednesday Noon Conference, 2005)
8. Quality of Life Measures in Allergic Respiratory Diseases (presented at JHAAC, Wednesday Noon Conference, 2005)
9. Aggregating Cost Data from Multicenter Clinical Trials: An Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Elasticity Approach (presented at MEDTAP, 2004)
10. A case of Severe Steroid-Dependent Asthma (presented at JHAAC, Wednesday Noon Conference, 2005)
11. Allergy Grand Rounds: Eosinophilic Esophagitis (presented at JHAAC, Friday ACI Conference, April 14, 2006)
12. T-Regulatory Cells in Allergy and Asthma (presented at JHAAC, Wednesday Noon Conference, April 19, 2006)
PAPERS PRESENTED AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY MEETINGS:
- Tano BD, Hormone Allergy. Invited for presentation at the Hospital Central Do Exercito, Divisao De Ensino E Pesquisa,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 22, 2007
2. Tano BD, Heliox in the Treatment of Acute Asthma Exacerbation: A Cost- Effectiveness Analysis. Invited for presentation at BOC Medical HELIOX Conference 2006,Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus July 18, 2006
3. Tano BD, Leaving Against Medical Advice (LAMA) in Asthma Exacerbation: Characteristics and Determinants of Leavers. Poster Presentation, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), 11 Annual International Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 20-24, 2006
4. Tano BD, Bilderback AL, Rand CS, Krishnan JA. Heliox in the Treatment of Patients Hospitalized for Asthma Exacerbations. Poster Presentation, AAAAI 62 Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, March 3-7, 2006
5. Tano BD, Heliox in the Treatment of Acute Asthma Exacerbation: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Invited for presentation at the 51 International Respiratory Congress, December 3-6, 2005, San-Antonio, Texas
6. Tano BD, Stanford R, Pathak D. Aggregating Cost Data from Multi-center Clinical Trials: An Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Elasticity Approach. Poster Presentation, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), 9 Annual International Meeting Arlington, VA, May 2004
7. Tano BD, Transitions between Mild, Moderate and Severe Asthma States and
Their Determinants: A Logistic Regression Approach. Poster Presentation, AAAAI 60 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 19-23, 2004
8. J. Mauskopf, T Shih, R.D. Borker, B. Tano, R. Stanford, P. Jhingran. Budget Model for Estimating Economic Impact of Fluticasone Propionate/Salmeterol via Diskus® in an Adult Asthma Population. Poster Presentation, AAAAI 60 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 19-23, 2004
9. Tano BD, Hoffmann S, Pathak D. Heliox in the Treatment of Status Asthmaticus in the ICU: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Poster Presentation, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 6 Annual European Congress, Barcelona Spain, November 9-11, 2003
10. Tano BD, Sood N, Hoffmann S, Pathak D. Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension (PH): A Cost-Utility Analysis. Poster Presentation, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), 8 Annual International Meeting Arlington, VA, May 2003
11. Tano BD., B. Akpunonu, A. Mutgi, S. Khuder and D. Federman. Which Calcium Channel Antagonist (CCA) is Superior in Hypertension? A Meta Analysis. Poster Presentation, the Inter-American Society of Hypertension Meeting, Mexico City, March 15-18, 1997.
II. Economics:
Peer - Reviewed Journal Articles:
1. Tano, D. K. Are Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States: New Evidence from the Gross Change Data. Economics Letters, 36: 113-117, 1991.
2. Tano, D. K. The Added Worker Effect: A Causality Test. Economics Letters, 43: 111-117, 1993.
3. Tano, D. K., and D. Black, Employers’ Hiring Decisions and Inefficiency in the market for Economists. Journal of Economics and Business 47 (1): 65- 77, 1995.
Book Review:
1. Tano, D. K. Labor Markets in Action: Essays in Empirical Economics. By Richard B. Freeman. Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts 1989. Southern Economic Journal 57 (3) 884 - 886, 1991.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT ECONOMICS SCHOLARLY MEETINGS:
1. Tano, D. K. Effects of the Minimum Wage Laws on the Transition Probabilities of Youths, Young Adults and Prime Age Workers. Western Economic Association annual meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 1994.
2. Tano, D. K. Does Money Supply Respond to Government Spending? A Sequential Causality Test. Western Economic Association Annual Meeting in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 1993.
3. Tano, D. K. The Added Worker Effect: A Causality Test. Western Economic Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, July 1992.
4. Tano, D. K. Further Evidence on the Distinction between Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force: The Results of Three Tests with the Gross Change Data. Western Economic Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, June 1991.
5. Tano, D. K. Employers’ Hiring Decisions and Inefficiency in the Labor Market: A Statistical Decision Theory Applied to the Market for Economists. Western Economic Association Annual Meeting in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 1989.
LANGUAGES:
ENGLISH, FRENCH (National Language of Côte D’Ivoire) and SPANISH
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
ARCP, Active Member since 2007
AAAAI, Active Member since 2004
ACAAI, Active member since 2004
ISPOR, Active Member since 2002
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