Editor profiles

Rasa Ruseckaite, PhD MCompSc BCompSc, is a Senior Research Fellow and a Deputy Head (Qualitative Research) with the Clinical Outcomes Data Reporting and Research Program at Monash University's School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Melbourne, Australia. During Dr. Ruseckaite’s academic career, she has advanced the knowledge in human health, patient outcomes and clinical registry sciences. This has directly contributed to improving the lives and extending the lifespan of countless people in Australia. She has been involved in a large number of qualitative and quantitative studies on PROMs in patients with cancer, dementia, venous leg ulcers and cystic fibrosis. Additionally, Dr. Ruseckaite is currently leading the world-first study aiming to develop guidelines for patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) inclusion in clinical registries.

Elizabeth J. Unni, PhD Dr. Unni is Chair of the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Administrative Sciences at the Touro College of Pharmacy, New York. She also leads several postgraduate programs at the Touro College of Pharmacy including the PharmD/MBA program, Health Disparities Fellowship, Academic Pharmacy Fellowship, and the Leadership Certificate Program. Dr. Unni's research interest is in health services and includes medication non-adherence, patient’s beliefs in their medicines and illnesses, health literacy, and self-efficacy. Her interest lies in developing theoretical models that explain medication non-adherence based on the various psychosocial variables that define medication adherence. She has also developed a self-reported scale to measure medication adherence, the Medication Adherence Reasons Scale (MAR-Scale). She has been an ISOQOL member since 2013 and has been actively involved, serving as Patient Engagement SIG Chair, as a member of multiple committees, and currently as a member of the Board of Directors.