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Ware, John

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overview	Biography: Prior to joining the UMMS faculty, Dr. Ware founded QualityMetric Incorporated and served as its CEO and Chairman for more than 10 years. He served for 12 years as Senior Scientist, The Health Institute, Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and was the Principal Investigator for the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), where he led the development of the SF-36^® Health Survey and other tools widely used in documenting disease burden and treatment outcomes. Prior to moving to Boston he was Senior Research Psychologist for 14 years at the RAND Corporation where he led the development of health status measures used in the Health Insurance Experiment. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles, including papers from the MOS which received the Academy Health "Article of the Year" Award for 1993. In the early 1990's, Dr. Ware was among the first to demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of computerized adaptive testing and other "modern" psychometric methods in assessing generic and disease-specific health outcomes. These studies led to the cross-calibration of the SF-36® Health Survey and other widely-used measures on common metrics so that results from different instruments could be compared. This novel work has been applied to numerous medical conditions and has had a substantial impact on the field, leading to a 2003 President's Award from the International Society of Quality of Life Research. His other awards and honors include Pepperdine University's 25th Annual Dolores Award to the outstanding graduate in psychology and education, Academy Health’s 1994 Distinguished Investigator Award for "significant and long-lasting contributions to the field of health services research," the 1998 Novartis/Zitter Group Outcomes Leadership Award for advancing the science of outcomes research, and the 1999 Foundation for Accountability (FACCT) Ellwood Award, presented in recognition of his lifetime efforts to create "a consumer-focused, accountable healthcare system". In 2002, Dr. Ware was the first recipient of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award. Academic Background: 1964 BA Psychology Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA 1966 MA General Psychology Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA 1974 Ph.D. Measurements/Statistics Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Research: Dr. John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D, President and CEO, John Ware Research Group, Inc. and is Professor and Chief, Outcomes Measurement Science in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). He is an internationally recognized leader of the field of healthcare outcomes assessment and a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), National Academy of Sciences. Dr Ware's research focuses onimproving patient reported outcomes (PRO) tools used in population health surveys and clinical research worldwide.

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Biography:

Prior to joining the UMMS faculty, Dr. Ware founded QualityMetric Incorporated and served as its CEO and Chairman for more than 10 years. He served for 12 years as Senior Scientist, The Health Institute, Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and was the Principal Investigator for the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), where he led the development of the SF-36^® Health Survey and other tools widely used in documenting disease burden and treatment outcomes. Prior to moving to Boston he was Senior Research Psychologist for 14 years at the RAND Corporation where he led the development of health status measures used in the Health Insurance Experiment.

He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles, including papers from the MOS which received the Academy Health "Article of the Year" Award for 1993. In the early 1990's, Dr. Ware was among the first to demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of computerized adaptive testing and other "modern" psychometric methods in assessing generic and disease-specific health outcomes. These studies led to the cross-calibration of the SF-36® Health Survey and other widely-used measures on common metrics so that results from different instruments could be compared. This novel work has been applied to numerous medical conditions and has had a substantial impact on the field, leading to a 2003 President's Award from the International Society of Quality of Life Research. His other awards and honors include Pepperdine University's 25th Annual Dolores Award to the outstanding graduate in psychology and education, Academy Health’s 1994 Distinguished Investigator Award for "significant and long-lasting contributions to the field of health services research," the 1998 Novartis/Zitter Group Outcomes Leadership Award for advancing the science of outcomes research, and the 1999 Foundation for Accountability (FACCT) Ellwood Award, presented in recognition of his lifetime efforts to create "a consumer-focused, accountable healthcare system". In 2002, Dr. Ware was the first recipient of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award.

Academic Background:

1964 BA Psychology Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA

1966 MA General Psychology Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA

1974 Ph.D. Measurements/Statistics Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Research:

Dr. John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D, President and CEO, John Ware Research Group, Inc. and is Professor and Chief, Outcomes Measurement Science in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). He is an internationally recognized leader of the field of healthcare outcomes assessment and a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), National Academy of Sciences.

Dr Ware's research focuses onimproving patient reported outcomes (PRO) tools used in population health surveys and clinical research worldwide.

One or more keywords matched the following items that are connected to Ware, John

Item Type	Name
Academic Article	Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the participation measure for post-acute care (PM-PAC).
Academic Article	Conceptualization and measurement of health-related quality of life: comments on an evolving field.
Academic Article	The potential synergy between cognitive models and modern psychometric models.
Academic Article	Predicting declines in physical function in persons with multiple chronic medical conditions: what we can learn from the medical problem list.
Academic Article	Psychometric evaluation of the SF-36 health survey in Medicare managed care.
Academic Article	Item response theory methods can improve the measurement of physical function by combining the modified health assessment questionnaire and the SF-36 physical function scale.
Academic Article	Validation testing of a three-component model of Short Form-36 scores.
Academic Article	Assessing the factor structure of a role functioning item bank.
Academic Article	Development of an item bank and computer adaptive test for role functioning.
Academic Article	Short and precise patient self-assessment of heart failure symptoms using a computerized adaptive test.
Academic Article	Computerized adaptive testing--ready for ambulatory monitoring?
Concept	Psychometrics
Academic Article	Method of administration of PROMIS scales did not significantly impact score level, reliability, or validity.
Academic Article	The PROMIS Physical Function item bank was calibrated to a standardized metric and shown to improve measurement efficiency.
Academic Article	Testing item response theory invariance of the standardized Quality-of-life Disease Impact Scale (QDIS(?)) in acute coronary syndrome patients: differential functioning of items and test.
Academic Article	Evaluation of smoking-specific and generic quality of life measures in current and former smokers in Germany and the United States.
Academic Article	Development of a Short Version of the Thyroid-Related Patient-Reported Outcome ThyPRO.
Academic Article	Preliminary Evaluation of a New German Translated Tobacco Quality of Life Impact Tool to Discriminate Between Healthy Current and Former Smokers and to Explore the Effect of Switching Smokers to a Reduced Toxicant Prototype Cigarette.
Academic Article	Standardizing disease-specific quality of life measures across multiple chronic conditions: development and initial evaluation of the QOL Disease Impact Scale (QDIS?).
Academic Article	Varying the item format improved the range of measurement in patient-reported outcome measures assessing physical function.
Academic Article	Developing a New Version of the SF-6D Health State Classification System From the SF-36v2: SF-6Dv2.
Academic Article	The validity of single-item measures of health-related quality of life across groups differing in acute respiratory symptom severity.
Academic Article	Improved Items for Estimating SF-36 Profile and Summary Component Scores: Construction and Validation of an 8-Item QOL General (QGEN) Survey.

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