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Professor, Vice Chariman
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Richard Gershon, PhD, is widely recognized for his expertise in advancing the use of technology for increasing the impact and reach of psychometrically robust health measurements. Having completed PhD work in both Clinical and Personality Psychology from Northwestern University, Dr. Gershon is the Vice Chair for Research in Medical Social Sciences and a Professor in Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine-Health and Biomedical Informatics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is a leading expert in the application of Item Response Theory (IRT) in individualized and large scale assessments and has developed item banks and Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) for educational, clinical, and health applications, including cognitive, emotional, sensory, and motor applications. Dr. Gershon has had a robust career in Patient Report Outcomes (PRO) and Performance Outcomes as he has acted as the principal investigator for the NIH Toolbox for the Assessment of Neurological Function and Behavior, the NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox, the NIH Roadmap Patient Reporting Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Technical Center, and the National Children's Study: Vanguard Study (South ROC). Currently, Dr. Gershon is the contact principal investigator for The Mobile Toolbox for Monitoring Cognitive Function, MyCog: Rapid detection of cognitive impairment in everyday clinical settings, Toolbox Detect: Low Cost Detection of Cognitive Decline in Primary Care Settings, and ARMADA: Advancing Reliable Measurement in Alzheimer’s Disease and cognitive Aging. He is also MPI of the following projects: ECHO PRO Research Resource: A Developmentally-based Measurement Science Framework for Assessing Environmental Exposure and Child Health, NIH Toolbox Design Consulting for Research Domain Criteria Field Test Battery, and AAD-PEPR: Asthma and Atopic Dermatitis Validation of PROMIS Pediatric Instruments. In addition to these roles, he is co-investigator and the Technical core PI for the National Person-Centered Assessment Resource and co-investigator for the NIH/NCATS project Improving Patient Reported Outcome Data for Research through Seamless Integration of the PROMIS Toolkit into EHR Workflows. Furthermore, he serves as the site PI for the NICHD project “A Cognitive Test battery for Intellectual Disabilities," and the DOD project “Assessing Rehabilitation Outcomes after Severe Neuromusculoskeletal Injury: Development of Patient Reported Outcomes Assessment Instruments". Altogether he has served as PI, MPI or co-investigator for over 70 NIH, DoD, and Foundation awards.
