ISPOR Award for Excellence in Methodology in Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research Recipient

Jeffrey S. Hoch PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Economics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

“Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something BLUE: A Framework for the Marriage of Health Econometrics and Cost-effectiveness Analysis.” Health Economics 2002; 11: 415-430.

Jeffrey S. Hoch received his PhD in health economics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also holds a Masters in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Quantitative Economics and Decision Sciences from the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Hoch is currently an Assistant Professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and cross appointments in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario (UWO).
Dr. Hoch has taught Health Economics and Economic Evaluation classes in Canada, Europe and the United States. Since 1998, Dr. Hoch has delivered over 65 presentations at scientific conferences. In 2003, he was awarded a Faculty Development Mini Fellowship from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at UWO to develop a case-based medical economics curriculum.
Dr. Hoch has held research grants from a number of government and industry sponsors including the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). In addition, Dr. Hoch has received peer-reviewed career funding in the form of a Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.
Currently, Dr. Hoch is pursuing research on economic evaluation and statistical methodology as well as applied health economics. Special interests include mental health and home care. Dr. Hoch’s work has appeared in journals such as Archives of General Psychiatry, The British Journal of Psychiatry, and Health Economics.