John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D, is a founder of QualityMetric Inc., and its President and Chief Scientific Officer. He is also Executive Director of the Health Assessment Lab at the Health Institute, New England Medical Center, Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at Harvard University. He is Principal Investigator of the International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) Project, which is translating and validating the SF-36 Health Survey for use in 45 countries. Prior to moving to Boston in 1988, he was Senior Research Psychologist for 14 years at the RAND Corporation, where he developed health status and patient satisfaction measures used in the Health Insurance Experiment. He was the Principal Investigator for the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), which developed the SF-36 Health Survey and other tools widely used in monitoring outcomes for patients treated in different systems of care. He co-authored the papers from the MOS which received the Association for Health Services Research (AHSR) "Article of the Year" Award for 1993. In 1994, he received AHSR's "Distinguished Investigator" Award. In 1998 he received the Novartis/Zitter Group's "Outcomes Leadership Award" for his work in advancing the science of outcomes research. In 1999, he was named individual recipient of the Ellwood Award, presented by FACCT, in recognition of his lifetime efforts and contribution to the “creation of a consumer-focused, accountable health care system”. Dr. Ware is currently developing the next generation of patient-based assessments that use advances in computer technology to provide very brief measures, yet meet the standard of precision necessary for use on an individual patient basis.

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