A. Simon Pickard

A. Simon Pickard, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy, and Assistant Director of the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomic Research at the University of Illinois - Chicago College of Pharmacy. He earned his B.Comm., B.Sc. in Pharmacy, and PhD in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Pickard has authored over 150 publications on evaluating the safety, effectiveness and value of health care interventions; improving drug-related outcomes through education (particularly opioids); and on the measurement and evaluation of quality of care and health outcomes. He has served on several editorial boards, including Medical Decision Making, Drugs in Context, and Quality of Life Research. He is co-developer of the LupusPRO, a lupus specific quality of life measure. He has extensively contributed to the EuroQol Group, developers of the EQ-5D, one of the most widely used measures of health in clinical trials throughout the world, and is part of the international consortia to develop a new measure of health and well-being (EQ-HWB). Dr. Pickard was named University Scholar in 2023, awarded to outstanding faculty by the President of the University of Illinois System.