Mark has worked closely with Dr. John E. Ware, Jr., over the past seventeen years, providing analytic support for the SF-36, SF-12, and SF-8™ Health Surveys. Mr. Kosinski has been involved in numerous methodological studies on the measurement of health outcomes, including the development and validation of the SF-12 and SF-36 Physical and Mental Health Summary Scales, the SF-8 Health Survey, the Asthma Control Test (ACT) and the Headache Impact Test (HIT). In recent years, Mr. Kosinski has devoted most of his research interests in the development and analysis of item banks for computer adaptive health assessments. Mr. Kosinski has co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles related to the development and analysis of patient-reported outcome measures of health status, and has contributed to ten manuals and interpretation guides for various PRO measures including the SF-36, SF-12, and SF-8 Health Surveys. Over the past 10 years, Mr. Kosinski has been actively involved in working with the pharmaceutical industry in the analysis of clinical trial data with PRO measures as secondary indicators of treatment efficiency. Mr. Kosinski has a master's degree in Psychology from Bridgewater State University.

Jason comes to QualityMetric after consulting in academic and professional fields for several years. Jason was a senior statistician at UCLA for the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, where he provided statistical consultation for investigators. In addition, Jason founded Consulting Measurement Group and has acted as president, as well as senior statistician and psychometrician. Jason is also an active researcher, publishing and reviewing for many psychometric, psychological, and medical journals. Jason holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology.

Margaret joined QualityMetric in 2004 bringing more than ten years of combined research, administrative, and accounting experience. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Suffolk University. As a member of the Outcomes Insight Consulting team, she continues to deliver research support through extensive literature searches, conference posters, presentation slides, as well as on-site and web-based trainings.

Kavita Gajria joined QualityMetric Inc. in 2005. She is a pharmacist with a Master of Science degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Virginia Commonwealth University. Kavita's area of research expertise includes health economics, outcomes research, and pharmaceutical marketing. At QualityMetric, she has worked on numerous consulting projects for pharmaceutical and biotech companies and managed care organizations. Some of the projects that she has worked on include - development of patient reported outcomes tools; pharmacoeconomic studies evaluating cost- effectiveness of status quo disease treatments, and clinical studies evaluating disease burden on health related quality of life, health care use and expenditures; and assessment of therapeutics and wellness programs in improving health related quality of life outcomes. Kavita has also presented her research at international conferences such as ISPOR and published her research in peer-reviewed journals. Her previous research experience has been in drug development in the pharmaceutical industry and in health economics and outcomes research in academia.

Jennifer joined QualityMetric in January 2006. She brings to the team experience in developing and evaluating the measurement qualities of patient-reported outcomes measures. She has been working in many disease areas, such as gastrointestinal conditions, respiratory diseases, HIV, migraine. Prior to joining QM Jennifer designed and managed outcomes research studies including treatment satisfaction, patient preference, health related quality of life and symptom evaluation. Jennifer earned a Masters in Public Health and completed a two-year fellowship in Pharmaco-economics and Outcomes Research at University of Michigan.

Min joined QualityMetric in February 2006. Her research interests span the areas of health-related quality of life, health services utilization, pharmacoepidemiology, research methodological designs, quantitative methods, medication adherence/compliance. Her research covers many disease areas including cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, women's health, and mental health. Her research and analysis experiences include using clinical trials data, survey data and claims databases to do treatment effect analysis, health outcomes analysis (e.g., side effects evaluation), patient reported outcomes analysis (e.g., burden analysis, minimally important difference of PRO instruments), as well as involving in qualitative research, and survey instrument development and validation. She has twice received awards for her research presentations at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). She received both of MS and PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Texas at Austin. Min holds a MD from the Suzhou Medical College, China, and is trained in surgical oncology.

Geoffrey Hammond joined QualityMetric in 2007. Geoff recently completed his PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge in the UK, where his PhD focused on latent variable methodologies and their use in assessing heterogeneity in schizophrenia outcome. Part of his thesis work focused on longitudinal modeling of EQ-5D utility scores along with assessment of movement between EQ-5D dimensional states using Markov Transition modeling. During this time, Geoff was also a part-time assistant lecturer at Anglia-Rushkin University. Before his move to the UK, Geoff worked as a research assistant at the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where his research experience focused on patients with autonomic neuropathy and fibromyalgia. Geoff has presented numerous times at ISPOR, being awarded the best student podium presentation in 2005. His research at QualityMetric has focused on questionnaire development and application latent variable models to both longitudinal and cross-sectional data.

Regina joined the Outcomes Insight™ Consulting Division as a Senior Outcomes Analyst in August 2007. Prior to joining QM, Regina was a research assistant and PhD student in Biostatistics at Brown University, where she investigated the use of nonlinear mixed models to study cancer diagnostic accuracy. Regina also worked as a statistician at the Center for Statistical Sciences at Brown University, participating in the planning, data collection and analysis for several multi-site studies aimed at investigating alternative cancer diagnostic imaging methods. She also served as consulting statistician at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Regina holds a BA and MS in Statistics from the University of Connecticut.