Steven Pearson is an American physician, bioethicist, and the Founder and President of the non-profit health policy and comparative effectiveness research organization Institute for Clinical and Economic Review in Boston, MA. He conducts research on

cost-effectiveness analysis Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is a form of economic analysis that compares the relative costs and outcomes (effects) of different courses of action. Cost-effectiveness analysis is distinct from cost–benefit analysis, which assigns a monet ...

and healthcare technology assessment. He is also a lecturer in Harvard's Department of Population Medicine and a member of the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U ...

(NIH) Comparative Effectiveness Research Steering Committee.

Career and education

Pearson founded the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review at the

Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the third oldest general hospital in the United State ...

's Institute for Technology Assessment in 2006. Prior to that, he was a fellow at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). He also received an Atlantic Fellowship and was a Senior Fellow in the United Kingdom at the

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care in England that publishes guidelines in four areas: * the use of health technologies withi ...

of the UK's

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

. Additionally he has been a member of the Coverage and Analysis Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the United States. He is the author of the book ''No Margin, No Mission: Health Care Organizations and the Quest for Ethical Excellence'', published by Oxford University Press along with James Sabin and Ezekiel Emanuel. Pearson's medical degree is from the UCSF School of Medicine and he completed a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In addition to a medical degree, he holds a Master of Science Degree in Health Policy and Management from the

Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard- MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's firs ...

. Pearson has authored many articles related to health policy debates and issues at the national level as well as articles that speak to cost effectiveness of specific health care technologies. In 2010, he co-authored an article in

Health Affairs ''Health Affairs'' is a monthly peer-reviewed healthcare journal established in 1981 by John K. Iglehart; since 2014, the editor-in-chief is Alan Weil. It was described by ''The Washington Post'' as "the bible of health policy". Abstracting and ...

with Memorial Sloan Kettering's

Peter Bach Peter B. Bach is a physician and writer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center where he is Director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes. His research focuses on healthcare policy, particularly as it relates to Medicare, racial dis ...

that stated "Medicare must find new ways to achieve cost control without limiting access to beneficial services."

References

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