Meet Our Experts
Meet the experts behind NBME's research to advance medical education assessment and view their latest publications in the research library.


Tazin Afrin, PhD
NLP Scientist

Peter Baldwin, EdD
Principal Measurement Scientist

Amanda Clauser, EdD
Vice President, Psychometrics and Data Analysis

Monica M. Cuddy, PhD
Lead Measurement Scientist

Andrew Emerson, PhD
NLP Scientist

Keelan Evanini, PhD
Lead NLP Scientist

Richard A. Feinberg, PhD
Principal Psychometrician

Irina Grabovsky, PhD
Senior Psychometrician

Polina Harik, PhD
Principal Measurement Scientist

Jerusha J. Henderek, PhD
Manager, Psychometrics

Michael Jodoin, PhD
Senior Vice President, Customer & Portfolio Management

Daniel Jurich, PhD
Associate Vice President, USMLE

Anastasiya Lipnevich, PhD
Principal Measurement Scientist

Melissa Margolis, PhD
Lead Measurement Scientist

Krista Mattern, PhD
Vice President, Office of Research

Francis O’Donnell, PhD
Senior Psychometrician

Saed Rezayi, PhD
NLP Scientist

Christopher Runyon, PhD
Senior Measurement Scientist

Becca Runyon, PhD
Lead Measurement Scientist

Su Somay, EdD
Lead Measurement Scientist

Kimberly Swygert, PhD
Director, Test Development Innovations

Ye Tong, PhD
Senior Vice President, Assessment Operations

Victoria Yaneva, PhD
Director, Data Science

Yiyun Zhou, PhD
NLP Scientist


