Dr. Swindle has served as a research psychologist with Health Research & Consulting of Carmel, LLC since 2015.
CARMEL, IN, March 01, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Ralph Wilson Swindle Jr., PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Swindle celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Swindle has served as a research psychologist with Health Research & Consulting of Carmel, LLC since 2015. He previously served as a research fellow, research advisor, senior research scientist and Manager, US Research, Global Health Outcomes, at Eli Lilly and Company between 1999 to 2015. Two major high points during this period were achieving Lilly's first outcome-based contract at drug launch with a healthcare pharmacy benefit management company for the diabetes drug Trulicity, and his studies of treatment for low back pain (LBP) and opiate avoidance as the lead Lilly Outcomes scientist for the Cymbalta (duloxetine) low back pain FDA indication.
Dr. Swindle also worked as a research psychologist for VA Health Services R&D at Indiana University and Stanford University, and as a program evaluator for Southern Central Community Mental Health Center in Bloomington, IN. His extensive experience spans 40 years in total, beginning as a psychological intern with Quinco Consulting Center in Columbus, IN, in 1977.
His expertise has been called upon by numerous institutions, committees, medical schools and organizations over the decades. They include: Indiana University's Department of Psychology and School of Medicine, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the VA's Health Services Research and Development Service, the National Institute of Mental Health's Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research, the Anthem-Lilly Research Partnership, VA Services-Directed Research Program, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/NPC Advisory Group on the appropriate use of evidence from observational studies for examining the safety and effectiveness of medical interventions.
Dr. Swindle continues to serve as a professional medical and psychological journal reviewer and adjunct associate professor at Indiana University. He has played an important role with the VA National Nursing Research Review Committee, VA HSR&D Alcohol Screening Task Force, Indiana University Medical Center's Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, the Program Evaluation and Research Center (PERC), VA Far-West HSR&D Center, and the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University.
Dr. Swindle was born in Palo Alto, CA in 1951 to Ralph Wilson and Jewel Marie Swindle. In his first year at the University of California, Irvine, he was the recipient of the Nicholas Aeberhard's Outstanding Freshman Award. He went on to earn his Bachelor of Art in Social Ecology, magna cum laude, in 1973. He then completed a pre-doctoral clinical training fellowship from 1973 until 1975, a summer fellowship in evaluation research in 1975, and a clinical traineeship in alcoholism research through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism from 1975 until 1977. He then earned a PhD in Clinical Community Psychology at Indiana University in 1983.
A certified health services provider psychologist through the Indiana Health Professional Bureau from 1984 to 2006, Dr. Swindle has written extensively in his field. He has authored/co-authored 91 peer-reviewed professional publications, of which 19 have received more than 100 Google Scholar citations to date, the most cited being Kroenke K & Swindle RW. (2000). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for somatization and symptom syndromes: a critical review of controlled clinical trials. Psychosomatics, 69:205-15. (546 GS citations). He also co-created several published psychological scales and screening inventories. In 1992, through funded grants, he led the creation and dissemination of the original data dictionaries and programming guides for health service research use of the VA patient treatment claims and cost databases, (known as the 4-volume "Blue Bibles"). His career has been spent developing assessment tools, examining the actual practice pattern of interventions in the real world, and measuring health-related patient outcomes across a wide range of health conditions.
He is proud to have provided (along with colleagues) numerous early examples of the "hybrid" use of claims databases merged with directly collected patient data in the areas of VA substance abuse treatment, women's premenstral dysphoric disorder, post-stroke depression, adult ADHD, sleep and depression. Also to have conducted pragmatic real world randomized trials in depression, women's stress urinary incontinence, and prospective observation real world studies in premenstrual dysphoric disorder, community-based depression and social supportive ties in elderly women and their significant others.
Dr. Swindle is a former elder at Carmel Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) where he taught Sunday school. He was also a management consultant to ministry staff at Los Altos United Methodist Church. He has given of his time to many worthy causes including Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Monroe County, the Indiana Department of Mental Health's Community Support Program for the Chronically Mentally Ill, and the Commissioner's Advisory Group on Applied Research and Transfer of Knowledge, as well as the Listening Line Crisis Service.
A member of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research as well as the Columbus Men's Group, Dr. Swindle has been highlighted in various editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in the World between 2006 and 2017. He received two Lilly Research Laboratory President's Awards for Highest Scientific Contributions (for diabetes and anxiety research) and was twice named an Outstanding Reviewer by the editors of Annals of Internal Medicine. He has been married to Renee Marie Pobuda since 1993, and is the proud father of three children: David Michael, Jeremy Christopher and Natalie Diane. His hobbies include guitar and musical performance, reading and watching movies, outdoor adventuring, traveling, Civil War history and battlefields, and researching family history and genealogy.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Ralph Wilson Swindle Jr., PhD, has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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