Jim Murray, PhD is a research fellow within Lilly’s Global Patient Outcomes and Real World Evidence (GPORWE) Center of Expertise (COE). The GPORWE COE is a multi-disciplinary group that supports the other functions within GPORWE and Lilly in the development and commercialization of Lilly products. Jim provides expertise and scientific support for the following topics within the COE for Real World Evidence and the use of RWE in Clinical Development, Observational and Pragmatic Study Design and Health Policy issues.

Jim has been actively involved in ISPOR since its inception. In addition to the development of the US Health System short course, he is actively involved in the development of the ISPOR Competency Framework, the ISPOR Education Council and the ISPOR Institutional Council. Jim has a Masters in Information Systems and a PhD in Decision Sciences and Operations Research both from the University of Wisconsin Madison.