Wendy J. VanLoy, Ph.D., is a Research Associate in the Department of Family Practice and Community Health in the Medical School at the University of Minnesota. She received her B.A. at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, in Psychology and Mathematics and completed her graduate work in Psychology at the University of Minnesota in 1996 with a specialty in psychometrics and an applied focus on program development and evaluation. Dr. VanLoy has acted in various teaching, research, and consultant roles within the Department of Psychology and the Medical School over the years and is presently working with faculty in the Department of Family Practice to design, implement, and evaluate a merit review system. She is responsible for developing merit criteria, systems for collecting information on the criteria, and forms and review processes for reviewing faculty documentation with regard to these criteria. She has consulted on numerous faculty development projects involving the evaluation of training programs, including a 24-site educational intervention for the Education Center at the VA Medical Center and multi-disciplinary courses and workshops for the Medical School on the responsible conduct of research. She also serves as a consultant to faculty and as a project evaluator for the department's Research Program. Specifically, she assists faculty with developing project-specific evaluation plans and evaluation instruments and with the early development of faculty research projects (e.g., framing research questions, identifying appropriate research designs, and developing tools for data collection), as well as with the data analysis, interpretation, and reporting of study results.