Hosted by Dr. Dean Regier: Measuring community preferences to resolve ethical issues associated with using sensitive health care data

Measuring community preferences to resolve ethical issues associated with using sensitive health care data

Wednesday 4 October 2023 | 1-3 PM

John F P Bridges

Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Hosted by Dr. Dean Regier

Academy of Translational Medicine and School of Population & Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, UBC


John FP Bridges PhD is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) at The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine. An economist by training, he has devoted his career to advancing and applying theory-driven methods to understand the preferences and priorities of patients and other stakeholders in medicine. John was the founding editor of The Patient – Patient-centered Outcomes Research journal, and founding chair of numerous patient-centered working groups, special interest groups, and task forces within the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), the last of which published a new Roadmap for increasing the usefulness and impact of studies of patient preferences. He has received the ISPOR Bernie O’Brien New Investigator Award (2006) and the ISPOR Distinguished Service Award (2011). The author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications, he is frequently engaged as an expert on methods for measuring patient preferences and their application in a wide variety of fields, including regulatory science, cancer control, public health, and genetics. His current research on the clinical application of best-worst scaling is supported, in part, by an Innovation in Regulatory Science Award from Burroughs Wellcome Fund.


Meeting Details:

  • When
    • Wednesday 4 October 2023
    • 1-3 PM