Peter J. Neumann

Peter J. Neumann, Sc.D., is director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center, and professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is the founder and director of the Cost-Effectiveness Registry, a comprehensive database of cost-effectiveness analyses in health care. Dr. Neumann has written widely on the role of clinical and economic evidence in pharmaceutical decision-making and on regulatory and reimbursement issues in health care. He served as co-chair of the 2nd Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. He is the author or coauthor of more than 300 papers in the medical and health policy literature, and the author or coauthor of three books. Dr. Neumann has served as president of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Health Affairs and the health policy advisory board for the Congressional Budget Office. He also has also held several policy positions in Washington, D.C., including special assistant to the Administrator at the former Health Care Financing Administration. He received his doctorate in health policy and management from Harvard University.