Bryan R. Luce, PhD, MBA

Bryan R. Luce, PhD, MBA is Senior Vice President, Science Policy, for United BioSource Corporation. Dr. Luce founded The MEDTAP® International, serving as its Chairman, President and CEO until 2002. Previously, he held positions as Director of Battelle’s Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, Director of the Office of Research and Demonstrations, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Senior Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the United States Congress.

Dr. Luce is a consultant to numerous government agencies as well as pharmaceutical and device firms worldwide, a member or chair of socioeconomic and public health policy advisory boards for several leading pharmaceutical companies, and recently was a member of the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC). He holds academic appoints as Senior Scholar with the Department of Health Policy, Jefferson Medical College and Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania. In addition, Dr. Luce is on the editorial boards of several leading health journals, including Value in Health and the American Journal of Managed Care. He has authored more than eighty scientific publications, including three textbooks on technology assessment, health policy, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Dr. Luce founded and chairs the Bayesian Initiative in Health Economics and Outcomes Research. He is a Past President of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) and is a Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), Medical Service Corps, US Army Reserves. Dr. Luce’s undergraduate and masters training were at the Universities of Vermont and Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his Doctorate from the School of Public Health at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

David Eddy MS, PhD

David Eddy is a physician-mathematician living in Aspen, Colorado. Starting more than 30 years ago he has done seminal work in guidelines, mathematical modeling, cost-effectiveness, coverage decisions, medical necessity and performance measurement.

He is one of the founders of the “evidence-based” movement, promoting and teaching the application of evidence to guidelines, coverage policies, performance measures and medical necessity. The author of five books and more than 100 first-authored articles, including a series of essays for the Journal of the American Medical Association, his writings span from technical mathematical theories to broad health policy topics. He has received 8 national and international awards in several different fields, including applied mathematics, health technology assessment, health care quality, and outcomes research.

He has been elected or appointed to more than forty national and international boards and commissions -- including Consumers Union, the National Board of Mathematics, the World Health Organization Panel of Experts, The Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Advisory Panel, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance – and is a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences. He was Professor of Engineering and Medicine at Stanford, and then the J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management at Duke University, before he resigned to become an independent researcher and writer. He is the founder and co-inventor of the Archimedes model, and is currently the Medical Director of Archimedes, Inc.

George W. Torrance, PhD

Dr. Torrance is Professor Emeritus at McMaster University, Canada, and Principal Consultant for i3 Innovus, a global leader in health economics, outcomes and data analysis. He has been a leading researcher, teacher and practitioner in the field of health economics and outcomes research for over three decades.

As a methodologist, Dr. Torrance pioneered many of the methods used today in health economics, particularly the use of utility theory to measure preferences for health outcomes, and the concept of quality-adjusted life years and their use in cost-utility analyses. In addition he and his colleagues developed the widely applied Health Utilities Index.
As a teacher, Dr. Torrance has trained generations of researchers and practitioners through courses, workshops, journal articles, textbooks including the ISPOR Book of Terms, and through mentorship of junior and senior colleagues and students.
As a practitioner, the results of studies conducted by Dr. Torrance have laid a foundation for evidence-based medicine and health policy and contributed to a more efficient allocation of resources in healthcare. Dr. Torrance is truly one of the pioneers in our field.

Kathleen N. Lohr, PhD

Kathleen Lohr, PhD, appointed as an RTI Distinguished Fellow in June 2003, has more than 30 years of experience in the field of health outcomes and health services research. She joined RTI in 1996, serving as senior program director for the health services and policy research program. Among Dr. Lohr's scientific contributions to RTI and her field has been strengthening bridges between RTI and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she holds the rank of Research Professor. The most striking example of her efforts in this area is the RTI-UNC Evidence-based Practice Center, for which she is the principal investigator. Her work in evidence-based practice builds on an international reputation in quality of care, clinical practice guidelines, and quality of life measurement. She has published 51 monographs and research reports, 17 book chapters, and over 100 peer-reviewed articles.

Michael F. Drummond, PhD

Michael Drummond is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Health economics at the University of York, UK. He obtained his PhD from York in 1983, having previously obtained degrees in engineering and business administration.   

His main research interest is in the economic evaluation of health care programmes and he has undertaken a wide range of empirical studies. In addition, he has written numerous ethodological papers and co-authored one of the main textbooks in the field. 

In addition to his academic work, he has acted as consultant to the WHO and participated in numerous projects for the European Union. He is also Vice-President (European Operations) for Innovus, a contract research organization. He has served on numerous government committees in the UK, including the Medicines Commission and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidelines Advisory Committee. 

John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Science Officer and Chairman of the Board, QualityMetric Incorporated

Dr. Ware founded QualityMetric Incorporated, in 1997 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer, Chief Science Officer, and Chairman of the Board. For nearly 15 years he has maintained academic affiliations with the Health Assessment Lab in Boston and faculty appointments as Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at Harvard University. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), National Academy of Sciences.

Prior to founding QualityMetric, Dr. Ware served for 12 years as Senior Scientist, The Health Institute, Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston, and served as the Principal Investigator for the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), where he developed the SF-36® Health Survey and other tools widely used in monitoring patient outcomes. Prior to moving to Boston in 1988, he was Senior Research Psychologist for 14 years at the RAND Corporation where he developed the health status and patient satisfaction measures used in the Health Insurance Experiment. His hundreds of publication credits include papers from the MOS, which received the Association for Health Service Research (ASHR) “Article of the Year” Award for 1993.

In addition to his election to the IOM, Dr. Ware’s awards and honors include Pepperdine University’s 25th Annual Dolores Award to the outstanding graduate in psychology and education, AHSR’s 1994 “Distinguished Investigator” Award, the 1998 Novartis/Zitter Group “Outcomes Leadership Award” for his work in advancing the science of outcomes research, and in 1999, he was the individual recipient of the Ellwood Award presented by the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT), in recognition of his lifetime efforts and contribution to the creation “of a consumer-focused, accountable health care system”.