EDUCATION AND TRAINING

M.D., University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, 1997.

Internship in Medicine, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, Seattle, WA, 1997-1998.

Residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine. Barnes Jewish Hosiptal/Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO, 1998-2000.

Fellowship in Health Behavior Research, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2000-2001

Fellowship in General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2001-2003

M.P.H., School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2003

OFFICE ADDRESS

Harborview Medical Center
325 Ninth Avenue
Campus Box 359780
Seattle, WA 98104

Office:    Pat Steel 5122.11
E-mail:    pcrane@u.washington.edu
Telephone: (206) 744-1831
Fax:       (206) 744-9917

HONORS

New Investigator Award, ISOQOL (International Society
    for Quality of Life Research), 2005
Member of Phi Beta Kappa
Edward Gould Shumway Class of 1867 Prize for most
    distinguished work in English Literature, Williams College, 
    1993.
 
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Psychometrics and measurement theory.
Alzheimer's disease and cognitive functioning.
Health services research.
Epidemiologic methods.


REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
 

Crane PK, Gibbons L, Narasimhalu K, Lai J-S, Cella D. Rapid detection of differential item functioning in assessments of health-related quality of life: the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy. Quality of Life Research 2007; 16(1): 101-14.

Reeve BB, Hays RD, Bjorner JB, Cook KF, Crane PK, Teresi JA, Thissen D, Revicki DA, Weiss DJ, Hambleton RK, Liu H, Gershon R, Reise SP, Cella D. Psychometric evaluation and calibration of health-related quality of life item banks: plans for the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS). Medical Care 2007; 45 (5 Suppl 1): S22-31.
 

Crane PK, Gibbons LE, Ocepek-Welikson K, Cook K, Cella D, Narasimhalu K, Hays R, Teresi J. A comparison of three sets of criteria for determining the presence of differential item functioning using ordinal logistic regression. Quality of Life Research 2007; 16 Suppl 1:69-84.

Crane PK, Narasimhalu K, Gibbons LE, Mungas DM, Haneuse S, Larson EB, Kuller L, Hall K, van Belle G. Item response theory facilitated co-calibrating cognitive tests and reduced bias in estimated rates of decline. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2008; 61(10): 1018-27.

Crane PK, van Belle G, Larson EB. Test bias in a cognitive test: differential item functioning in the CASI. Stat Med. 2004 Jan 30;23(2):241-56.