Professor
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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. Dr. Gershon is currently Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Medical Social Sciences 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. He is PI for the NIH Toolbox for the Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function (NIHTB), where he created and oversaw a team of over 200 researchers from around the world to create a large battery of instruments for clinical-investigators to assess various areas within cognitive, motor, sensory and emotional health, for longitudinal, clinical and comparative effectiveness research. He serves as MPI for the Advancing Reliable Measurement in Alzheimer’s Disease and cognitive Aging (ARMADA) project, which aims to validate the NIHTB among individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, AD, and older adult normal controls age 65-85, and among the oldest of the old normal controls, aged 86+. Dr. Gershon is working to expand these assessments to children ages 1 to 42 months with his role as PI on the current NIH Infant and Toddler “Baby” Toolbox. Additionally he is the contact MPI for the Mobile Toolbox for Monitoring Cognitive Function, and MPI for ToolBox Detect: Low Cost Detection of Cognitive Decline in Primary Care Settings. Dr. Gershon also served as MPI of MyCog: Rapid detection of cognitive impairment in everyday clinical settings, and was formerly the PI for the NIH Roadmap Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Technical Center.
NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery -- New Development and Utility in the Rehabilitation Research
Thursday, November 2, 2023
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM