Melanie Whittington, Ph.D., Member, Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy Advisory Board, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) at Tufts Medical Center where she works to develop and apply novel methods for value assessment. She is also a Principal at Valusphere where she advises on health technology assessment and provides training to value assessment stakeholders. She was previously the Director of Health Economics for the Institute for Clinical Economic Review (ICER) where she led the cost-effectiveness analyses and budget impact analyses within ICER reviews. She remains on ICER’s Health Economics Council. She is a leader in the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) and was the recipient of the Bernie J. O’Brien New Investigator Award. She has a PhD in Health Services Research with a concentration in Health Economics and Outcomes Research.