Liana Bruce, PhD



Genesis Research Group
111 River Street, Suite 1120
Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, U.S.A.

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Bio:
Dr. Bruce is a Principal Scientist, Analytics with Genesis Research Group. Research interests include cancer and chronic disease outcome measurement, veterans’ and military health, scale development in PROs including pain and social functioning, biostatistics, health economics, patient safety, and value-based decision making. Passionate about data, she uses SAS, R, SQL, Python, Teradata, and PowerBI, along with reproducible research and automation techniques to wrangle, build, curate, visualize, report, and model patient data for actionable insights.

Dr. Bruce earned her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Services Research at the Cecil G. Sheps Center, University of North Carolina. She has a Masters of Health Policy and Administration and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

  • Editor-In-Chief of Patient Related Outcome Measures, Dove Medical Press, part of Taylor & Francis Group. Impact Factor 2.1

  • Principal Investigator of NCT00954564 NCT00954564

  • Developer of the Patient-Reported Arthralgia Inventory (PRAI), licensed through FACIT.org

  • Special Commendation Award, United States Government Accountability Office (US GAO), Veterans and Military Health Issue Area

  • Cigna Quarterly Champion Award, Journal of Spine Surgery article on narcotics and opioid utilization following lumbar fusion surgery.

  • Paper of the Year Award, SAGE/HERO Publications, Loneliness in the United States of America: a 2018 National Panel Survey of Demographic, Structural, Cognitive, and Behavioral Characteristics, American Journal of Health Promotion


  • Publications