Murrey G. Olmsted

Murrey G. Olmsted is a senior methodologist and research psychologist with a broad set of interests focused on research design, survey methodology, measurement, evaluation and applied multivariate statistics. He primarily works in content areas related to surveys, health care quality and services, behavioral health, health assessment, and federal statistical surveys.

Dr. Olmsted leads several key projects at RTI, including the Best Hospitals and Best Children’s Hospitals rankings projects for U.S. News & World Report, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and a series of projects for the American Board of Pediatrics, American Board of Orthopaedics, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and others. He has also led methodology projects, exploring ways to optimize Web-based data collection and management systems, including surveys, health registries, personal health records, military health, and health interventions. Dr. Olmsted frequently serves as a methodological advisor to survey, program evaluation, and field trial projects.

Dr. Olmsted serves as a senior member of the RTI Institutional Review Board and is a member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and the American Psychological Association.