38th Annual North American Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making

October 23 - 26, 2016

Reed Johnson, PhD

Duke Clinical Research Institute
PO Box 17969
Durham, NC
USA 27715

Biographical Sketch: F. Reed Johnson, PhD, has more than 35 years of academic and research experience in health and environmental economics. He has served on the faculties of several universities in the United States, Canada, and Sweden, as Distinguished Fellow at Research Triangle Institute and currently is Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics, Duke Clinical Research Institute. As a staff member in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental economics research program during the 1980s, Dr. Johnson helped pioneer development of basic nonmarket valuation techniques. These techniques are now widely used for cost-benefit analysis in health and environmental economics. He has designed and analyzed numerous surveys for measuring preferences for and value of health outcomes, health-risk reductions, and improved environmental quality.

Papers:
3H-5 BEWARE THE LAW OF AVERAGES: EVALUATING TASTE HETEROGENEITY IN BENEFIT-RISK TRADEOFF PREFERENCES 5N-3 HOW HETEROGENEOUS ARE PREFERENCES FOR DELAYING ONSET OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK