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Wickizer poster presentation performs well at ISPOR conference

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Posted 12/15/2011

Professor Tom Wickizer’s poster presentation was selected as a research poster presentation award finalist among 1,500 entries at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 14th Annual European Congress.

Wickizer’s poster presentation, “Improving the Quality and Reducing Costs in Workers’ Compensation Health Care: A Population-Based Intervention Study,” was evaluated by a team of judges at the ISPOR meeting held in November in Madrid, Spain.

Wickizer, PhD, MPH, is director of the Center for Health Outcomes, Policy and Evaluation Studies (HOPES) and the Stephen F. Loebs professor in the Division of Health Services Management and Policy at the College of Public Health.

“The great majority of the presentations were for pharmacoeconomics. My presentation reported the results of a successful quality improvement intervention. I was gratified the judges recognized the importance of this work,” said Wickizer.

The ISPOR best research poster presentation awards were established in 1998 to recognize the scientific merit of poster presentations of the ISPOR conferences.

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