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| | | February 11, 2008 The winter 2008 issue of Toolbox news is now available under the Publications and Presentations section! | 2/11/2008 12:16 PM | | | | June 19, 2008 We are pleased to report that the NIH Directors who make up the Neuroscience Blueprint have approved funding the Toolbox “Pediatric Option.” Therefore we are “full speed ahead” on the development, validation and norming of instruments for children as young as 3 years of age. We have been presented with a truly exciting opportunity to demonstrate the validity of these efforts in pediatric populations and look forward to expanding our focus on this project.
| 6/19/2008 1:14 PM | | | | The first public conference, "Building the Toolbox" was held Monday, October 27, 2008, at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel and Conference Center, Bethesda, MD. We had over 250 attendees from across the country, and would like to thank everyone who participated and helped to make it a great success. Our next public conference will be in 2010 - further details will be provided as available. | 11/17/2008 4:25 PM | | | | The winter 2009 issue of Toolbox news is posted under Publications and Presentations section. This issue highlights three of the six domains that make up the Sensation aspect of the project: Audition, Somatosensation and Taste. Part II will be available this summer | 2/17/2009 3:10 PM |
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Richard Gershon, PhD, is Associate Chairman, Department of Medical Social Sciences, and a faculty member, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University. Dr. Gershon is a leading expert in the application of Item Response Theory (IRT) in both individualized and large scale assessment. He has developed item banks and Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) for educational, clinical and health applications, including cognitive, emotional, and motor applications. He is currently principal investigator on the NIH Toolbox. He is also co-investigator and measurement development expert on each of the following projects: 1) the NINDS sponsored project “Quality of Life Outcomes in Neurological Disorders” (Neuro-QoL), 2) the NIH Roadmap project “Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) and the cancer-specific supplement, as well as several smaller projects.
Contact Information
E-mail: gershon@northwestern.edu
847.863.6854
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