Elena

Elena Tsangaris

PhD
Associate Director
Mixed Methods Research

Elena has over two years of Project Manager experience at Modus Outcomes and over ten years of experience working in academia in patient-centered outcomes research.

 

Elena received her graduate training (MSc, PhD) in Health Research Methodology at McMaster University (Hamilton, ON, Canada). She then completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Patient-Reported Outcome, Value, and Experience (PROVE) Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA, USA). Her graduate and postgraduate training focused on learning the qualitative and quantitative methods necessary to develop and validate clinical outcome assessments (COAs), translation and cultural adaptation, development of a COA collection platform in breast cancer, and implementation science.

Elena has led qualitative and quantitative studies at Modus Outcomes to support clinical trials and real-world studies, including literature reviews and qualitative interviews, overseeing the selection and development of COAs, conducting Rasch Measurement Theory analysis, writing reports and manuscripts, and developing regulatory documents (briefing books, dossiers).

Elena is a co-author of many peer-reviewed publications related to COAs and has presented her work at local, national, and international conferences.