Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Population Medicine
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-509-9987
Fax: (617) 859-9853
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Steven Pearson, MD
Steven D. Pearson, MD, MSc, FRCP is President of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) at Harvard Medical School and Senior Fellow at America’s Health Insurance Plans in Washington, DC. Dr. Pearson’s work examines the scientific and ethical foundations of evidence-based policy making in health care. His published work includes the book No Margin, No Mission: Health Care Organizations and the Quest for Ethical Excellence, published in 2003 by Oxford University Press. Dr. Pearson is the current Vice-Chair of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee, is a member of the AcademyHealth Methods Council, and also serves on the management committee of the International Society for Priority Setting in Health Care. In 2004 he was awarded an Atlantic Fellowship to pursue policy studies at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in London, England. He returned to the US to serve from 2005-2006 as Special Advisor, Technology and Coverage Policy, at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2006, Dr. Pearson founded the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER). ICER produces appraisals of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of medical innovations, with the goal of providing new information to decision makers intent on improving the value of health care services.
Selected Publications:
Pearson SD,Lieber SR,.
Financial penalties for the unhealthy? Ethical guidelines for holding employees responsible for their health
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Health Aff (Millwood ). 2009 May;3:845-852
Tunis S,Clancy C,Helms WD,McGinnis JM,Pearson SD,.
Roundtable on expanding capacity for comparative effectiveness research in the United States: discussion took place on June 3, 2007, at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meetingin Orlando, FL
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Health Serv Res. 2009 Apr;2 Pt 1:327-342
Pearson SD,Knudsen AB,Scherer RW,Weissberg J,Gazelle GS,.
Assessing the comparative effectiveness of a diagnostic technology: CT colonography
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Health Aff (Millwood ). 2008 Nov;6:1503-1514
Miller FG,Pearson SD,.
Coverage with evidence development: ethical issues and policy implications
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Med Care. 2008 Jul;7:746-751
Pearson SD,Schneider EC,Kleinman KP,Coltin KL,Singer JA,.
The impact of pay-for-performance on health care quality in Massachusetts, 2001-2003
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Health Aff (Millwood ). 2008 Jul;4:1167-1176
Lu CY,Ross-Degnan D,Soumerai SB,Pearson SA,.
Interventions designed to improve the quality and efficiency of medication use in managed care: a critical review of the literature - 2001-2007
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BMC Health Serv Res. 2008;75-
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