 | | | provides evaluation consultation and evaluation oversight for the NUCATS Institute. Directed by William McGaghie, PhD, the OoE is housed on Northwestern University’s Chicago campus, on the 11th floor of the NUCATS Institute. The OoE team implements evaluation policy centering around project management principles and works with NUCATS leadership to institute a formal evaluation policy for all pilot projects funded by NUCATS. Consultative services offered by the OoE team include assistance in setting baseline goals with an eye towards identifying and operationalizing metrics and milestones for each NUCATS unit, providing project management consultation and tools with an evaluation approach, and administering needs assessment surveys to the research community. Additionally, the OoE team works with Noshir Contractor and the Office for Research Team Support (ORTS), undertaking a social network analysis of Northwestern University, as well as researchers within the CTSA Consortium institutions. The OoE team is collaborating with the Center for Translational Innovation (CTI) and the ORTS to plan next level activities to reach young researchers and service their needs. This includes, but is not limited to, activities such as team research events, further social network analysis data gathering, and self-efficacy questionnaires for funded projects. The OoE team leads the effort to create an institute-wide, online, data gathering tool – ClearCATS – to collect evaluation metrics and to assess the Institute’s progress for meeting its goals. Dr. McGaghie and Ms. Kessler serve on the CTSA Consortium Evaluation Key Function Committee. Dr. McGaghie is also a member of the Definitions Workgroup. Ms. Kessler serves on the Shared Resources Workgroup and the advisory board for UCSF’s Share Center project.  | William C. McGaghie, PhD, Director of OoE and Jacob R Suker, MD, Professor of Medical Education Dr. McGaghie’s research and writing in medical education and preventive medicine widely ranges to include such topics as personnel and program evaluation, research methodology, medical simulations, attitude measurement, medical student selection, concept mapping, curriculum development, faculty development, among others. He serves on the editorial boards of six scholarly journals including Evaluation and the Health Professions, Medical Teacher, Advances in Health Sciences Education, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, College Teaching, and Simulation in Healthcare. Dr. McGaghie served on the Research Advisory Committee for Academic Medicine (1999 to 2001) and reviews manuscripts for many other scholarly journals including the Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and The American Statistician. He has been awarded research and training grants from a variety of NIH Institutes (e.g., NHLBI, NIA) and eight private foundations (e.g., Josiah C. Macy, Jr., Foundation, Charles E. Culpeper Foundation). McGaghie has served on several National Institutes of Health and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality study sections (NHLBI, NIA) and as a grant application referee for several private foundations including the NBME Stemmler Fund and the Spencer Foundation. He has served as a consultant to a variety of professional organizations including the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the American Physical Therapy Association and to universities and medical schools worldwide. Dr. McGaghie has authored or edited seven books and published more than 200 journal articles, textbook chapters, and book reviews in health professions education, preventive medicine, and related fields. |  | Sheila Kessler, Assistant Director of OoE, s-kessler@northwestern.edu Ms. Kessler comes to the NUCATS Office of Evaluation with ten years experience at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She has worked as a research assistant in the Department of Preventive Medicine working on grants and publications of multi-site clinical trials such as INTERMAP and CARDIA. She brings experience in publishing through her tenure as a technical services librarian as well as a communications specialist with the Archives of Internal Medicine. Her background in bio-cultural anthropology lends her experience in survey and questionnaire design, focus group facilitation, and statistical analysis methodologies. Her area of interests is the academic business model – particularly the incentive system, research policy, governance issues, and culture change within the research enterprise. | | Tyler Smith, Program Assistant, tylersmith@northwestern.edu | | If you need to contact the office directly, please call 312-503-1709. |
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