Marc Elliott received his PhD in statistics from Rice University. He is a Statistician at RAND Health. Dr. Elliot is the lead statistician on the AHRQ Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) project, which is a project that assesses consumer experiences with health care and provides decision support for consumers choosing among health care options. On this project his focus included design, sampling, weighting, and case-mix adjustment. He is the principal investigator of a subcontract concerning case-mix adjustment of the annual 100,000+ respondent CMS Medicare Fee-for-Service Survey, for which he constructed the original sample design. Dr. Elliott is also the Center Statistician for the RAND/UCLA CDC Center for Adolescent Health Promotion, including work on the CDC Healthy Passages longitudinal study of adolescents, which follows 5250 children from ages 10 through 18. Dr. Elliott, a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and a member of the American Statistical Association, has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, Health Services Research, Medical Care, Pediatrics, the Journal of Experimental Psychology (LMC), and Chance.