Sean Sullivan
 

Education

MS College of Pharmacy, University of Texas, 1986
PhD in Health Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1991

Research Interests

  • technology assessment
  • medical decision making
  • economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, particularly in the areas of respiratory disorders, organ transplantation, HIV/AIDS, mental health and clinical decision making

Courses Taught

  • Pharm 532: Methods in Pharmaceutical Policy Analysis
  • Pharm 534: Economic Evaluation in Health & Medicine
  • Pharm 541: Health Care & Society
  • Pharm 597: Graduate Seminar

Experience

Dr. Sullivan is a professor in the Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health/Community Medicine, the Director of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program (PORPP), and an adjunct professor in the Allergy Section of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Dr. Sullivan is Past President of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and a member of the International Health Economics Association and the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. He was also a member of the Task Force on Cost-Effectiveness, Quality, and Financing of Asthma Care in the US National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He has also served as a member of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Task Force on the Cost-Effectiveness, Quality of Care, and Financing of Asthma Care of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. His research has included clinical and economic outcomes associated with adult and pediatric asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and end-stage emphysema.

Activities

Professor Sullivan is a member of the Association for Health Services Research, the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, the International Health Economics Association, and the Society for Medical Decision Making.

He is a member of the scientific committee of the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) and a past member of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). Dr. Sullivan also is a member of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC). Dr Sullivan is an editor for Value in Health and a member of the editorial boards of Pharmacoeconomics, and the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy. He has written more than 200 journal articles, book chapters, and organizational and governmental publications, including many on the economics of asthma and COPD treatments.

Professor Sullivan is also on the Editorial Board of PharmacoEconomics, Pharmacotherapy and Managed Care and Cancer and is the author of more than 75 peer-review papers and book chapters.

 


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Professor, Depts of Pharmacy and Health Services;
Director, PORPP
(206) 685-8153
sdsull@u.washington.edu


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