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Theresa Coles is an Associate Professor at Duke University in the Department of Population Health Sciences. Her work focuses on health outcomes methodology, particularly in measuring and evaluating patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and clinical outcomes assessments (COAs). She integrates PRO measures into clinical care and aims to improve the interpretation of patient-centered outcome scores in healthcare delivery and clinical research settings. Her research is characterized by two main pillars: enhancing assessment functions and designing patient-reported screening questionnaires. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, she explores consensus methodologies and works on questionnaire design applicable to a range of conditions including cancer, heart failure, orthopedics, and autoimmune diseases. Coles holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has received grants for studies related to the impact of patient-reported outcomes in various health conditions.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)