Senior Research Psychometrician

Carla J. DeMuro-Mercon

Expertise

Instrument Development and Validation
Epidemiology

Biography

Carla DeMuro-Mercon is a senior director of patient-reported outcomes in RTI Health Solutions. Ms. DeMuro-Mercon has extensive experience in the rigorous development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures for use in clinical trials as well as large-scale epidemiologic and population-based studies. Ms. DeMuro-Mercon has worked to developed measures across a wide span of therapeutic areas including respiratory illness (asthma, COPD, allergic rhinitis, influenza), oncology (non-small cell and small cell lung cancer), Alzheimer's disease, infectious disease (including sexually transmitted disease), sleep disorders, hair loss (male and female), menopausal symptoms, cognition, acne, benign prostatic hyperplasia, diabetes and migraine. Measures have included multiple types of patient-reported outcomes including quality of life, treatment satisfaction, symptom severity, daily event logs, patient diaries, utility measures and other patient-reported outcomes. She has specialized in both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of instrument design and has worked towards creating a clear path from measure development to interpretation.

Education

PhD candidate, Public Health, Walden University; MS, Community Health, Arcadia University; BS (summa cum laude), Applied Computer Science/Communications, Chestnut Hill College.

Selected Publications

Santanello, N.C., DeMuro-Mercon, C.J., Shah, S.R., Schenkel, E.J., Ratner, P.H., Norquist, J.M., & Philip, G. (2006 May-Jun). Validation of the nighttime symptoms score as a clinically relevant measure of allergic rhinitis. Allergy and Asthma Proceedings, 27 (3):231-239.

Pearson, J., Demuro-Mercon, C., Cai, B., Lewis, S., Zhang, J., Doghramji, K., Ferguson, J., Scharf, M., Ware, J.C., & Ball, W. (2004). Electronic diaries improve precision of self-reported sleep data: A randomized comparison to paper diaries. Sleep, 27 (Suppl. S):371.

Hartmaier, S.L., Demuro-Mercon, C., Linder, S., Winner, P., & Santanello, N.C. (2001 Feb). Development of a brief 24-hour adolescent migraine functioning questionnaire. Headache, 41 (2):150-156.

Overland, G.B., Vatten, L., Rhodes, T., DeMuro, C., Jacobsen, G., Vada, K., Angelsen, A., & Girman, C.J. (2001). Lower urinary tract symptoms, prostate volume and uroflow in Norwegian community men. European Urology, 39 (1):36-41.

Santanello, N.C., Demuro-Mercon, C., Davies, G., Ostrom, N., Noonan, M., Rooklin, A., & Knorr, B. (2000 Nov). Validation of a pediatric asthma caregiver diary. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 106 (5):861-866.

Demuro-Mercon, C., Rhodes, T., Girman, C.J., & Vatten, L. (2000). Male-pattern hair loss in Norwegian men: a community-based study. Dermatology, 200 (3):219-222.

Girman, C.J., Hartmaier, S., Thiboutot, D., Johnson, J., Barber, B., Demuro-Mercon, C., & Waldstreicher, J. (1996 Oct). Evaluating health-related quality of life in patients with facial acne: development of a self-administered questionnaire for clinical trials. Quality of Life Research, 5 (5):481-490.

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