Sean D. Sullivan, PhD, MSc, RPh
Professor & Dean
School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Sean D. Sullivan, BScPharm, MSc, PhD, is Professor and Dean, School of Pharmacy. He holds a joint appointment as Professor of Health Services in the School of Public Health. He holds adjunct appointments in the School of Medicine, the Public Health
Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. He completed training in pharmacy at Oregon State University in 1983, obtained a master’s degree at the University
of Texas in 1986 and a PhD in health economics and policy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. Dr. Sullivan has authored more than 400 journal articles, book chapters, task force reports and organizational and governmental publications.
In many of these writings, he has assessed the evidence and applications of medical technology in relation to coverage and reimbursement decisions. His research interests include technology assessment, medical decision-making, and economic evaluation
of medical technology. He is past president of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) and past chair of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Executive Committee of the Format for Formulary Submissions –
the United States evidence-based guidelines for formulary decision making. Dr. Sullivan served as a past member of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee, a past member of the Regence Blue Shield and Premera Blue Cross P/T Committee,
and the Chair of the Premera Blue Cross Value Assessment Committee. He is also on the editorial boards of Value in Health, PharmacoEconomics, Journal of Medical Economics, and the European Journal of Health Economics. He was awarded the 2014 Stephen G.
Avey Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) and the 2015 APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Research Sciences (APRS) Research Achievement Award.