Lou Garrison, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in The Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics Institute in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Washington, where he joined the faculty in 2004.

For the first 13 years of his career, Dr. Garrison worked in non-profit health policy at Battelle and then the Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs, where he was the Director from 1989-1992. Following this, he worked as an economist in the pharmaceutical industry for 12 years. From 2002-2004, he was Vice President and Head of Health Economics & Strategic Pricing in Roche Pharmaceuticals, based in Basel, Switzerland.

Dr. Garrison received a BA in Economics from Indiana University, and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. He has more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include national and international health policy issues related to personalized medicine, benefit-risk analysis, and other topics, as well as the economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and other technologies.

Dr. Garrison was elected as ISPOR President for July 2016-June 2017, following other leadership roles since 2005.  He recently co-chaired the ISPOR Special Task Force on U.S Value Frameworks. He was selected in 2017 by PharmaVOICE as being among “100 of the Most Inspiring People” in the industry. He recently received the PhRMA Foundation and Personalized Medicine Coalition 2018 Value Assessment Challenge First-Prize Award as lead author on a paper on “A Strategy to Support the Efficient Development and Use of Innovations in Personalized and Precision Medicine.”