Matt Vassar is a professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences.[when?]
He then completed a doctorate in Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics at Oklahoma State University.
Vassar's research has included descriptive analyses demonstrating a high burden of industry payments to physicians, leading to conflicts of interest of physicians of influence, including those on clinical practice guideline committees in oncology and urology.
[1] He has also demonstrated that public awareness of medical or societal issues is affected by television shows, such as how Stranger Things, which features an actor with cleidocranial dysplasia, increased awareness about this rare medical condition.
[3] Other areas of research include spin in abstracts of medical reports, the robustness of statistical significance of clinical trials, and the reproducibility of meta-analyses.