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John E. Ware, Jr., PhD
Adjunct Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine (USA)

Dr. Ware, is Research Professor in the Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Visiting Professor in the College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University and has lectured on patient reported outcome measurement (PROM) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for more than 25 years. He is an internationally recognized PROM expert and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He led development of outcome measures in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment and was Principal Investigator for the Medical Outcomes Study, where he developed the SF-36^® Health Survey, and for the International Quality of Life Assessment Project translations of the SF-36 for use in multinational clinical trials and population health surveys. In the 1990’s, Dr. Ware was among the first to apply “modern” psychometric methods and computerized adaptive testing (CAT) to generic and disease-specific measures to standardize outcomes and measure population health more efficiently. He founded QualityMetric to develop web-based PROs and served as its CEO and CSO for 10 years. Dr. Ware has published more than 450 peer-reviewed articles. His current work focuses on the integration of disease-specific and generic PROMs using CAT survey logic to make patient screening and outcomes monitoring more practical and useful in clinical research and practice.