ISPOR 2025 Award Winners

ISPOR recently released their award winners from their 2025 conference this May. Winners are listed below. I’m excited to announce that my podium presentation “Quantifying Treatment Value Using Alternative Health Benefit Metrics: A Case Study of Adjuvant Osimertinib for Elderly Patients with EGFR mutated NSCLC Following Resection” received an award for the Best General Podium…

ISPOR 2025 in Montréal

Three panels. One great city. Can’t wait for the conversations at ISPOR 2024 in Montréal. GCEA: Where do we go from here? (14 May, 5-6pm) Should we finally rethink the 3% discount rate? (15 May, 3:15-4:15pm) How can HEOR support providers in value-based care? (16 May, 10-11am)  I’ll be diving into all three — including teaming…

ISPOR’s 2024 HEOR Awards

Who won the ISPOR’s 2024 HEOR awards? The list is below. Avedis Donabedian Lifetime Achievement Award: C. Daniel Mullins, PhD; Professor of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research and Executive Director of The PATIENTS Program; University of Maryland School of Pharmacy; Baltimore, MD, USA Marilyn Dix Smith Leadership Award: Deborah Marshall, PhD; Professor and Svare…

ISPOR 2024

I will be speaking on two panels at the upcoming ISPOR 2024 conference in Atlanta, GA. Myfirst panel “Economic Insights Into Nutrition: Unlocking the Value in Chronic Disease Management” on Tuesday, May 7, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of economic evaluation of nutrition interventions and compare economic analysis of nutrition interventions with analysis of…

ISPOR’s Top 10 HEOR Trends

These trends are summarized on their webpage and in a larger report. Here they are with some key excerpts from their report: Real world Evidence. “As RWE continues to gain significant traction in healthcare, agencies including the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Medicines Agency (EMA), The National Institute for Health and…

Quotations of the Day: ISPOR Edition

As heard at ISPOR 2023 in Boston: On high US drug prices: “My hope as a European is that US never gets its health system in order.” And his Yoda-like pronouncement: “Affordability is important; but value is critical” Michael Drummond HT: Peter Neumann. See also Dr. Neumann’s ISPOR recap thread

ISPOR 2023

If you’re attending the ISPOR 2023 conference in Boston, MA please feel free to come by view some of my research. This includes the following: Podium Presentation #108: Economic Evaluations of Rare Diseases: “Quantifying the Insurance and Altruism Value for Rare Diseases: A Case Study for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy”. Jason Shafrin will be presenting this work as…

HARmonized Protocol Template to Enhance Reproducibility (HARPER)

Clinical trials have detailed study protocols and are registered on ClinicalTrials.gov. What level of details are needed for real-world data (RWD) analyses that aim to estimate treatment effects? In Europe, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) requires registration of many study protocols using a template for observational post-authorization safety studies (PASS) conducted by marketing authorization holders.…