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Dennis Fryback completed a BA degree in Psychology and
Mathematics at UCLA (1969), then received an MA (Mathematics, 1973) and PhD
(Mathematical Psychology, 1974) from the University of Michigan, where he
trained in human decision making and decision analysis. He joined the staff at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974 and since 1984 has been a Professor
in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering.
Research Interests:
Prof. Fryback's research and teaching interests have
included medical technology assessment, health care cost-effectiveness analysis,
measurement of population-level health status and health-related quality of life
assessment, using simulation modeling to understand cancer epidemiology, and use
of Bayesian statistical analysis in these areas and in pharmacoeconomics and
outcomes research. His current research seeks to understand the scaling
properties of important indexes of health-related quality-of-life. This project
has conducted a major national survey of non-institutionalized US adults aged
35-89 and is analyzing these data to understand disparities in health associated
with age, gender, race, socioeconomic status and other important variables as
well as conducting analyses aimed at better understanding methodological
properties of the measures. These data are being prepared for public release in
summer of 2008.
Major Professional Service and Offices:
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President,
Society for Medical Decision Making (1982-83).
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Editor-in-Chief, Medical Decision Making (1986-88).
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Chair, Board
of Scientific Counselors of the National Library of Medicine, NIH (1992-94).
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Chair, Health
Care Technology Study Section, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
(1992-97).
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Member, United
States Preventive Services Task Force, US PHS, DHHS(1990-95).
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Member, U.S.
Public Health Service Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine,
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US DHHS(1994-96).
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Member,
National Advisory Council for Health Care Policy and Research, Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, US DHHS. (1998-01)
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Editorial
Board, Health Services Research (1998- 2005)
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Editorial
Board, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology (1998-
present)
Professional Affiliations:
Institute of Medicine (IOM)
Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL)
AcademyHealth
International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Sigma Xi
Honors/Awards:
1995 Society for Medical Decision Making, Eugene L. Saenger
Career Service Award.
1996 Elected Fellow of Association of Health Services Research (now
AcademyHealth).
1999 The Award for Career Achievement, Society for Medical Decision Making
2000 Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.
Representative recent Publications:
Tosteson ANA, Stout NK, Fryback DG, Acharyya S,
Herman B, Hanna L, Pisano E. Cost-effectiveness of digital mammography breast
cancer screening: Results from ACRIN DMIST. Annals of Internal Medicine
(in press)
Trentham-Dietz A, Sprague BL, Klein R, Klein BEK,
Cruickshanks KJ, Fryback DG, Hampton JM. Health-Related Quality of Life
Before and After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis. Breast Cancer Research and
Treatment (in press)
Fryback DG, Dunham NC, Palta M, Hanmer J, Buechner
J, Cherepanov D, Herrington S, Hays RD, Kaplan RM, Ganiats TG, Feeny D, Kind P.
U.S. norms for six generic health-related quality-of-life indexes from the
National Health Measurement Study. Medical Care (in press)
Hanmer J, Hays RD, Fryback DG. Mode of
administration is important in U.S. national estimates of health-related
quality-of-life. Medical Care (in press)
Fryback DG, Stout NK, Rosenberg MA, Trentham-Dietz
A, Kuruchittham V, Remington PL. The Wisconsin breast cancer epidemiology
simulation model. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs,
2006(36):37-47.
Hanmer JE, Lawrence WF, Anderson JP, Kaplan RM, Fryback
DG. Report of nationally representative values for the non-institutionalized
U.S. adult population for seven health related quality of life scores.
Medical Decision Making, 2006; 26(4): 391-400.
Stout NK, Rosenberg MA, Trentham-Dietz A, Smith MA,
Robinson SM, Fryback DG. Retrospective Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of
Screening Mammography. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2006;
98(11):774 –782.
Berry DA, Cronin KA, Plevritis SK, Fryback DG,
Clarke L, Zelen M, Mandelblatt JS, Yakovlev AY, Habbema JDF, and Feuer EJ, for
the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET)
Collaborators. Effect of screening and adjuvant therapy on mortality from
breast cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 2005; 353:1784-1792,
Oct. 27 2005.
Courses Taught:
(2004-2007) PHS 876: Measuring Health Outcomes
(2003-2007) PHS 375: Concepts and Methods in Population Health
Sciences (co-organized with Prof. Terry Young) (1989-2003) PHS 875: Assessing Medical Technologies
(section 001: for masters and doctoral students in PHS; section 002: for
masters students in administrative medicine program) (1978-1991) IE 613: Multiple Criteria Evaluation:
Utility assessment models and methods. (1979-1988) PM 725: Intermediate Statistics for
Health Administration (1982-1984) PM 710: Clinical Preventive Medicine (1981-1983) PM 650: Clinical Decision Analysis (misc. years) IE816: Special Topics. (topics have
included “Decision Analysis”, “Decision Support Systems”, “Technology
Assessment in Health Care”, “Research Issues in Quantitative Decision Models”
(with P. Glynn & F. Sainfort); “Decision Support Systems Research” (with A.
Thesen))
Contact Information
Dennis G. Fryback, Ph.D.
Department of Population Health Sciences
610 Walnut Street, Room 685
Madison, WI 53726-2397 USA
Phone: (608) 262-5997
Fax: (608) 263-2820
Email: dfryback@wisc.edu
Updated 11/1/2007
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