Kathleen Beusterien, MPH

Director
ORS Health
3523 Albemarle St. NW
Washington DC, DC
USA 20008
Email: kathy.beusterien@orshealth.com


Biographical Sketch:
Kathleen M. Beusterien, MPH, founder of ORS Health, has over 20 years of experience performing health outcomes research. Key areas of expertise include developing and implementing clinical outcomes assessment (COA) measurement strategies, patient and physician stated preference studies, and health status utility studies. Kathy has consulted on a number of communications with the FDA and EMA regarding patient reported outcomes (PRO) endpoints in clinical trials. Kathy has held senior leadership positions at outcomes research consulting firms, including Covance, UBC, and Oxford Outcomes. She has numerous PRO and preference publications and regularly leads workshops and presentations at scientific and industry conferences. Kathy is a founding member of the International Academy for Patient Preference Research (IAHPR) (http://www.iahpr.org). She received a Masters in Public Health in epidemiology and a Bachelor of Science in physiological psychology from the University of Michigan.

Papers:
3I-3 USE OF BEST-WORST SCALING TO ASSESS PATIENT PREFERENCES FOR REFRACTORY OVERACTIVE BLADDER TREATMENTS