Joyce Cramer Email and Phone Number

Joyce A. Cramer (joyce.cramer@gmail.com) has been a consultant to the pharmaceutical and medical device industry for several decades. She has extensive experience in clinical trial design and management, leading to a book on patient recruitment. She has published extensively on medication compliance and persistence across a variety of medical disorders. She has studied health outcomes in various medical areas, with emphasis on patient-reported outcomes (PRO) (encompassing quality of life, adverse effects, satisfaction, preference), including development of instruments. She continues to serve as a consultant based in Houston, TX (joyce.cramer@gmail.com). She was Associate Research Scientist at Yale School of Medicine, and President/Chief Scientific Officer of the Epilepsy Therapy Project (ETP), a non-profit organization where she supported entrepreneurs to develop new drugs and devices, and enticed investors to put their venture capital into the emerging companies in this area. Her career includes development of methods for the evaluation of antiepileptic drug efficacy and adverse effects, study design and management, and enhancement of medication compliance, as well as instruments to assess quality of life, treatment satisfaction, and other patient-reported outcomes. Publications include 5 books, more than 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters, and hundreds of abstracts, covering a wide variety of topics in medicine, neurology, psychiatry, research design, medication compliance & persistence, quality of life, and other patient-reported outcomes. The books are titled: Quantitative Assessment in Epilepsy Care, Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics: An Introduction, Alcohol and Seizures, Patient Compliance in Medical Practice and Clinical Trials, Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials.Specialties: Patient-reported outcomes, assessment of quality of life, medication complianceclinical trial design, management, and patient recruitment: epilepsy, MS, migraine, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorders, alcoholism, mood disorders. Other therapeutic areas include: diabetes, osteoporosis, asthma/allergy/COPD, cardiovascular