Newswise — Washington, DC—May 24, 2016—The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) recognized its 2016 ISPOR Awards Program recipients at the 21st Annual International Meeting in Washington, DC, USA. The ISPOR Awards Program is designed to foster and recognize excellence and outstanding technical achievement in health economics and outcomes research (HEOR).
The 2016 ISPOR Awards Program recipients honored at the International Meeting include:
Monday, May 23ISPOR Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement AwardPennifer Erickson, PhD Co-Founder and Scientific Director of the On-Line Guide to Quality-of-Life Assessment (OLGA)-Presented by 2012 recipient, Donald Patrick, PhD, MSPH
Tuesday, May 24ISPOR Marilyn Dix Smith Leadership AwardJ. Jaime Caro, MDCM, FRCPC Chief Scientist at Evidera
ISPOR Award for Value in Health Paper of the YearEthan Basch, MD, MSc University of North Carolina For the paper, Methods for Developing Patient-Reported Outcome-Based Performance Measures. Value in Health. 2015; 18(4):493-504.
Value in Health Regional Issues Excellent Article AwardMônica Viegas Andrade, PhDUniversidad Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Harvard School of Public HealthFor the paper, Societal Preferences for EQ-5D Health States from a Brazilian Population Survey. Value in Health Regional Issues. 2013; Vol 2:405-412.-First VIHRI Excellence award presented for the Latin America region
ISPOR Award for Excellence in Methodology in Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes ResearchAnirban Basu, PhD University of WashingtonFor the paper, A Framework for Prioritizing Research Investments in Precision Medicine, Med Decis Making. October 2015. [Epub ahead of print]-Was a recipient of the 2009 ISPOR Bernie O’Brien New Investigator Award
ISPOR Award for Excellence in Application of Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes ResearchJoshua J. Gagne, PharmD, ScD Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s HospitalFor the paper, Prospective Benefit-Risk Monitoring of New Drugs for Rapid Assessment of Net Favorability in Electronic Health Care Data. Value in Health. 2015; 18(8):1063-1069.
The following 2016 ISPOR Awards Program recipient will be presented their award at the ISPOR 7th Asia-Pacific Conference being held 3-6 September, 2016 in Singapore.
Value in Health Regional Issues Excellent Article AwardFei-Li Zhao, PhD, MScUniversity of Technology, Castle Hill, AustraliaFor the paper, Burden of Disease Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region: Are There Enough being Performed to Provide for Evidence-Based Health Policy? Value in Health Regional Issues. 2013; Vol 2:152-159.-First VIHRI Excellence award presented for the Asia-Pacific region
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