Dr. Rochelle Tractenberg is a research methodologist specializing in designs and analyses with “difficult to measure” outcomes in biomedical and educational studies, and the development and benchmarking of outcomes. She is a tenured professor at Georgetown University, appointed in the Department of Neurology, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics and Rehabilitation Medicine. She is also a Research Fellow at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC. These represent her “day job”, check out the Collaborative for Research on Outcomes and -Metrics (CROM, https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/crom/) to learn more about this day job!
Dr. Tractenberg has PhDs in psychology/cognitive sciences (1997) and measurement, statistics, and evaluation (2009); she also earned a doctoral level certificate in gerontology (2006), and Masters degrees in Social Science (Psychology, 1995) and Public Health (Biostatistics/Biometry, 2002). A professional biostatistician who earned the Accredited Professional Statistician designation from the American Statistical Association in 2011, she has been engaged in experimental research since 1997. She is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and also of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was a 2022 nominee for the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research Berlin, Germany.
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