Janel Hanmer, PhD
Medical Scientist Training Program
Department of Population Health Sciences
644 WARF, 610 North Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726

email: jehanmer@wisc.edu
phone: (608) 265-3298
fax: (608) 263-2820

I am in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I have finished the first two years of medical school and passed step 1 boards. I recently completed a PhD in the Department of Population Health Sciences and am currently in a postdoctoral position in the same department. I will return to medical school in July 2008. I am fortunate to be working with Dennis Fryback as my advisor. My primary research interest is generic health related quality of life measures; my dissertation project was titled "Co-Occurring Conditions and Estimating Health Utilities." I have included a copy of my CV as well an a page of posters and presentations. Please email me if you would like to see a copy of my dissertation document.

This site was primarily created to be a repository of scoring algorithms for several of the main generic health related quality of life measures. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about using the code. I would especially appreciate hearing from you if you find any errors. I have also included an Excel file which includes scores representative of the US adult non-institutionalized population for the EQ-5D, SF-12, SF-6D, QWB (estimated), and VAS. This file is an online supplement to an article which appeared in Medical Decision Making.

I am also very interested in applying Bayesian methods to health related quality of life questions. I rely very heavily on the program WinBUGS 1.4 as I have not been trained to write my own programs in R or S. I have started compiling notes about ways I have solved some of the cryptic error messages. I have also created a page documenting the saga of creating a QALE10 using WinBUGS 1.4 complete with many working doodles that other people might find useful if they like to learn from examples.

Please note that all documents associated with this website are under a Creative Commons License. I encourage all researchers to learn more about the Creative Commons by clicking on the links at the bottom of this page.