Faculty members at the CRHC have expertise in survey instrument selection, design, deployment, and evaluation. This includes particular expertise in using state-of-the-art techniques to generate questionnaires and interviews, identify platforms and methods for survey deployment appropriate to the target participant, maximize response rates, conduct psychometric evaluation of instruments, and recommend instrument modifications based on these evaluations. We have expertise in the full range of survey domains including demographics, psychosocial, quality-of-life, social media, patient reported outcomes, health utility measures, and many others.
Faculty
Timothy Anderson, MD, MAS
Dr. Anderson is a primary care physician and health services researcher with expertise in retrospective studies, prospective cohort studies, and interventional trials.
Janel Hanmer, MD, PhD
Dr Hanmer’s research focuses on the design and analysis of survey data, particularly health utility measures used in cost-effectiveness analyses.
Tamar Krishnamurti, PhD
Dr. Krishnamurti has experience in scale development and experimental survey design.
Galen E. Switzer, PhD
Associate Chief of Research, Division of General Internal Medicine
For more than 20 years, Dr. Switzer has developed and evaluated clinical and psychosocial research measures and compiled validated measures for research projects across multiple contexts. As part of his completed and ongoing projects, his research group has collected and analyzed questionnaire and interview data from >10,000 participants.
Lan Yu, PhD
Dr. Yu's research has focused on applying advanced psychometric theories, such as item-response theory and structural equation modeling to health-related outcomes. She has been the lead psychometrician for the NIH Roadmap Initiative, Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Pittsburgh research site since 2007. Her research interests include large survey data, secondary data analysis, psychometrics, and item-bank development for various patient-reported outcomes.