Daniel Gundersen, PhD is a Lead Scientist in Medical Oncology at DFCI, a collaborative researcher and lead methodologist at the Survey and Data Management Core (SDMC), and associate member of the Cancer Care Delivery Research Program of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC). Dan is the Lead of the Evaluation Unit of the ISCCCE. In the evaluation unit he directs three staff members to create and maintain the data ecosystem for the ISCCCE, review program survey instruments, implement the organizational surveys, and other ad-hoc requests for methodological expertise. He also provide biostatistical support for pilot projects.
Dan’s expertise is in developing single and latent measures for patients (patient reported outcomes [PROs]), community members, and health care professionals in different settings. He also develop and evaluate innovative self-reported mobile data collection approaches for self-reported behavioral health surveillance indicators. Dan is currently Principal Investigator on an NCI funded R01 grant entitled “Cell Phone RDD Sampling to Reach Young Adults for Tobacco Control Surveillance” (R01CA149705). The project’s aims are to develop methods for collecting longitudinal survey data by efficiently leveraging mobile technologies for sampling, recruitment, multi-mode data collection, and cohort retention. He uses his methodological expertise to ensure investigators’ research designs produce valid and reliable self-reported data at a low burden to respondents that is collected and analyzed in a reproducible manner.
In addition to his research and role on the ISCCCE, he provides scientific leadership for the SMDC’s activities and serves as the principal methodological consultant for investigators using its services. Dan also lectures on survey design and analysis to enhance the survey capacity at Harvard-affiliated academic health care centers.
Dan is the Lead of the Evaluation Unit of the ISCCCE.
Select Publication: Stability of Sample Quality for a National Random-Digit Dialing Cellular Phone Survey of Young Adults
