|
AcademyHealth Methods Council Members
 Bryan R. Luce, Ph.D., M.B.A., 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 has been a consultant to numerous government agencies as well as pharmaceutical and device firms worldwide. He is presently a member of The Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) and a member or chair of socioeconomic and public health policy advisory boards for several leading pharmaceutical companies. 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, he is on the editorial boards of Value in Health, the American Journal of Managed Care, and PharmacoEconomics. He has authored more than eighty scientific publications, including three textbooks on technology assessment, health policy and cost-effectiveness analysis, and he 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).
|