ISPOR Award for Excellence in Methodology in Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research Recipient Mandy Ryan PhD
Professor Ryan joined HERU in 1987 after graduating from the University of Leicester in 1986 with a BA (Hons) in Economics and from the University of York with an MSc in Health Economics. In 1995 she graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a PhD in Economics concerned with the application of contingent valuation and discrete choice experiments in health economics. In 1997 Mandy was awarded a 5-year MRC Senior Fellowship to develop and apply discrete choice experiments in health care, in 2002 she was awarded a Personal Chair in Health Economics by the University of Aberdeen and in 2006 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was a member of the RAE 2008 sub-panel 7 (Health Services Research). Professor Ryan currently directs the Preference Elicitation Theme within the Preference and Elicitation and Assessment of Technologies (PEAT) programme of work within HERU. She has worked with academics, government and the pharmaceutical industry and has published widely in the field of health economics generally, and monetary valuation more specifically. Professor Ryan also has extensive teaching experience, and is currently Director of HERU's Distance Learning Course. |
Ryan M, Watson V, Entwistle V. Rationalising the ‘irrational’: A think aloud study of discrete choice experiment responses. Health Economics 2009;18:321-36.