Stephen Maher Email & Phone Number

• Provide consultancy for clients, including strategic thinking on satisfying COA-relevant regulatory requirements• Serve as an internal advisor for quantitative projects in a variety of research contexts• Lead scientific research for outcomes-related projects, responsible for COA validation work across all phases including protocols, statistical analysis plans, research reports, and publications• Lead development of proposals and budgets• Provide mentorship and supervision to… Show more • Provide consultancy for clients, including strategic thinking on satisfying COA-relevant regulatory requirements• Serve as an internal advisor for quantitative projects in a variety of research contexts• Lead scientific research for outcomes-related projects, responsible for COA validation work across all phases including protocols, statistical analysis plans, research reports, and publications• Lead development of proposals and budgets• Provide mentorship and supervision to junior staff Show less

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

• Consultant for life science clients; Perform COA validation work including preparation of research protocols, statistical analysis plans, research reports, and publications• Work across a variety of disease areas including psychiatric, neurological, autoimmune, oncology, and orphan diseases• Serve as internal advisor for quantitative projects• Develop proposals in response to RFP or client requests that are regularly awarded • Advise clients on measurement and publication… Show more • Consultant for life science clients; Perform COA validation work including preparation of research protocols, statistical analysis plans, research reports, and publications• Work across a variety of disease areas including psychiatric, neurological, autoimmune, oncology, and orphan diseases• Serve as internal advisor for quantitative projects• Develop proposals in response to RFP or client requests that are regularly awarded • Advise clients on measurement and publication strategies• Compose COA-relevant portions of communications for submission to regulatory agencies• Prepare publications describing COA development / validation studies, clinical trial results, and other related work• Educate internal teams on PRO instruments and strategies Show less

Johnston, Ri

• Consultant for life science clients; Principal Investigator on psychometric and measurement-related studies for pharmaceutical clients in many disease areas including psychiatric, neurological, autoimmune, oncology, and orphan diseases• Developed proposals in response to RFP or client requests that were regularly awarded • Worked with clients to understand their goals and form testable research questions; developed research designs to answer those questions• Conducted research… Show more • Consultant for life science clients; Principal Investigator on psychometric and measurement-related studies for pharmaceutical clients in many disease areas including psychiatric, neurological, autoimmune, oncology, and orphan diseases• Developed proposals in response to RFP or client requests that were regularly awarded • Worked with clients to understand their goals and form testable research questions; developed research designs to answer those questions• Conducted research using a variety of approaches in a health economics and outcome research (HEOR) setting, including: psychometric validation, systematic review and meta-analysis, experimental and clinical trial analysis, instrument development, survey research, natural history, and development of outcome/endpoint recommendations for clinical trials• Interpreted and communicated research results in technical reports, FDA evidence dossiers, published literature, and as presentations to a range of audiences• Uniformly earned client ratings of ‘10’ on Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey for my work• Led internal teams and provided mentoring to junior colleagues Show less

Belmont, Ma

• Designed, conducted, and analyzed behavioral, psychophysics, and neuroimaging experiments investigating visual perception in schizophrenia• Showed specific pattern of face processing dysfunction in schizophrenia via convergent evidence from psychophysics, EEG, brain responses, and functional connectivity• Communicated results in conference presentations, talks, and published papers• Assisted in writing grants for submission to NIH and private foundations

• Investigated neural correlates of perceptual and cognitive deficits in schizophrenia• Designed and conducted experiments using psychophysics, fMRI, and EEG• Analyzed, synthesized, and interpreted diverse behavioral, clinical, and neuroimaging datasets• Communicated results in conference presentations, talks, and published papers

Vision & Graphics Group

• Investigated temporal memory for faces and objects• Designed and implemented experiments using psychophysics techniques & MEG • Analyzed and interpreted behavioral and neuroimaging data and communicated results

• Conducted statistical analyses for endocrinology pharmaceutical trials• Prepared reports communicating findings to Principal Investigator

• Conducted exploratory and statistical analyses on large behavioral data sets• Prepared summary reports communicating findings to product developers

Medford, Ma

• Investigated neural correlates of object recognition and memory with EEG• Specialized in generalization across object categories• Designed and implemented behavioral and EEG experiments • Analyzed and interpreted behavioral and EEG data and communicated results

• Responsible for daily running of clinical cognitive neuroscience lab• Supervised research assistants• Performed EEG and fMRI data analysis

Ph.D, Psychology, Concentration: Cognitive Neuroscience

Dissertation: Cortical Dynamics of Object Categorization and Recognition with Category Exemplars

Master Of Science, Psychology

Thesis: Time Course of Visual Object Categorization and Long-Term Memory

Bachelor Of Science, Psychology