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David Cella is the Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He studies questions regarding quality of life measurement in clinical trials, cross-cultural equivalence of quality of life measurement, efficacy of psychosocial interventions in chronic illness and medical outcomes research.
Cella has published more than 700 peer-reviewed articles, most of which focus on the unique contribution that the patient perspective has upon the evaluation of health and health care. He has studied quality of life as a scientific enterprise, bringing the voice of the patient into consideration of value and opportunities for improvement. Cella developed and is continually refining the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) Measurement System for outcome evaluation in patients with chronic medical conditions. He was steering committee chair and principal investigator of the statistical coordinating center for the NIH Roadmap Initiative to build a Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS). |
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