John McArdle, PhD

John J. (Jack) McArdle, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is also a visiting fellow at the Institute of Human Development at University of California at Berkeley, an adjunct faculty member at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii, and lead data analyst for research studies on college student-athletes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Dr. McArdle’s research has been focused on age-sensitive methods for psychological and educational measurement and longitudinal data analysis, including published work in the areas of factor analysis, growth curve analysis, and dynamic modeling of adult cognitive abilities. McArdle has won the Cattell Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research (1987), and was elected President of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (1993-94), President of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences (1996-1999), and Secretary of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP, 2000-2002). He now serves on several advisory boards for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the Evaluation Advisory Committee (Chair), the ACTIVE Collaborative Trials, the National Archive for Computerized Databases in Aging (NACDA), the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). He was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel on Institutional Review Boards. In 2002-2003, he was named Lansdowne Professor of the University of Victoria, Jacob Cohen Lecturer of Columbia University, and Best Academic Researcher, National Collegiate Athletic Association. In 2004, he was designated as a Co-Principal Investigator of the Health and Retirement Study.