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The Health Assessment Lab draws from a national and international group of specialists and psychometricians, including:

Anastasia E. Raczek, MEd, Senior Scientist - Bibliography

Ms. Raczek has been involved in educational, psychological, and health measurement for the past 19 years. She currently serves as Co-Investigator for two NIH-funded grants (Principal Investigator John E. Ware, Jr. PhD) to develop conceptual frameworks and computerized adaptive test (CAT) systems for children’s health. Ms. Raczek has led several studies on the measurement of health outcomes, including the design and development of a CAT system for health-related quality of life (HRQOL) assessment in chronic kidney disease, development and validation of the COPD Population™ Screener, and norm and validation studies for the SF-10™ Health Survey for Children (a parent-completed short-form survey designed to measure physical and psychosocial functioning in pediatric populations). She also was part of the team of researchers at New England Medical Center's Health Institute devoted to the measurement of patient-reported health outcomes, and participated in validation studies of the SF-36^® Health Survey. She previously served as a Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy (CSTEEP) at Boston College, conducting research studies of large-scale assessments with complex sampling designs, policy research, and program evaluations.

Matthias S. F. Rose, MD, Ph.D, Senior Scientist - Bibliography

Dr. Rose has been a Senior Scientist at Health Assessment Lab and QualityMetric Incorporated since December 2004. Before that he worked as an Associate Professor and Assistant Medical Director at the Clinic for Internal Medicine, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin. He has a board certification for Internal Medicine and 15 years of clinical experience, working in different departments for internal medicine in three university hospitals in Berlin, and since 1998 as a psychotherapist. His scientific work is focused on exploring the value of Patient-reported Outcome (PRO) assessments for the treatment of chronic conditions. One of his articles, exploring the determinants of PROs of patients with diabetes, was awarded with the Heinrich Bauer Award from the North German Diabetes Society in 1999. In 1997, his development of a German questionnaire assessing the health-related quality of life of patients with diabetes won the Lilly Quality of Life Award. Dr. Rose established his own work group at the Charité applying the Item Response Theory (IRT) to the development of Computer Adaptive Tests (CAT) six years ago, and was the first researcher to receive support from the government-funded German Research Society (DFG) for the development of CATs in health care. They were the first which established CATs on Personal Digital Assistants for use in daily clinical contexts as part of an ePRO system he and his co-workers developed more than a decade ago. Following an initiative from the Berlin Senate, this software system is currently implemented in various German hospitals. Today, he consults with national and international companies developing mobile computer-assisted PRO assessment systems for clinical practice.






	Staff Scientists: The Health Assessment Lab draws from a national and international group of specialists and psychometricians, including: Anastasia E. Raczek, MEd, Senior Scientist - Bibliography Ms. Raczek has been involved in educational, psychological, and health measurement for the past 19 years. She currently serves as Co-Investigator for two NIH-funded grants (Principal Investigator John E. Ware, Jr. PhD) to develop conceptual frameworks and computerized adaptive test (CAT) systems for children’s health. Ms. Raczek has led several studies on the measurement of health outcomes, including the design and development of a CAT system for health-related quality of life (HRQOL) assessment in chronic kidney disease, development and validation of the COPD Population™ Screener, and norm and validation studies for the SF-10™ Health Survey for Children (a parent-completed short-form survey designed to measure physical and psychosocial functioning in pediatric populations). She also was part of the team of researchers at New England Medical Center's Health Institute devoted to the measurement of patient-reported health outcomes, and participated in validation studies of the SF-36^® Health Survey. She previously served as a Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy (CSTEEP) at Boston College, conducting research studies of large-scale assessments with complex sampling designs, policy research, and program evaluations. Matthias S. F. Rose, MD, Ph.D, Senior Scientist - Bibliography Dr. Rose has been a Senior Scientist at Health Assessment Lab and QualityMetric Incorporated since December 2004. Before that he worked as an Associate Professor and Assistant Medical Director at the Clinic for Internal Medicine, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin. He has a board certification for Internal Medicine and 15 years of clinical experience, working in different departments for internal medicine in three university hospitals in Berlin, and since 1998 as a psychotherapist. His scientific work is focused on exploring the value of Patient-reported Outcome (PRO) assessments for the treatment of chronic conditions. One of his articles, exploring the determinants of PROs of patients with diabetes, was awarded with the Heinrich Bauer Award from the North German Diabetes Society in 1999. In 1997, his development of a German questionnaire assessing the health-related quality of life of patients with diabetes won the Lilly Quality of Life Award. Dr. Rose established his own work group at the Charité applying the Item Response Theory (IRT) to the development of Computer Adaptive Tests (CAT) six years ago, and was the first researcher to receive support from the government-funded German Research Society (DFG) for the development of CATs in health care. They were the first which established CATs on Personal Digital Assistants for use in daily clinical contexts as part of an ePRO system he and his co-workers developed more than a decade ago. Following an initiative from the Berlin Senate, this software system is currently implemented in various German hospitals. Today, he consults with national and international companies developing mobile computer-assisted PRO assessment systems for clinical practice. Home \| Research Projects \| Surveys \| Publications \| Staff \| Contact Us