Aaron Douglas, PhD

Aaron Douglas serves as the Associate Director of the Jefferson Longitudinal Study for the Center.  Dr. Douglas completed his graduate-school training at the Pennsylvania State University in 2004. His specialization is in educational and psychological measurement, research design, survey methodology, and applied statistics. His responsibilities include performing psychometric and statistical analysis related to medical education research, and managing the Jefferson Longitudinal Study. Dr. Douglas also provides research methodology support for other departments and several faculty in the medical college. His work supporting the medical college has resulted in several medical education research publications. His future additional research activities will feature the use of his data scientist skills for a large-scale survey research project that will utilize the Jefferson Scale of Empathy and other questionnaires that measure non-cognitive competencies critical for effective practice of medicine. He also manages the Longitudinal Study database with a focus on tools that automate and innovate the annual reporting of this important data.