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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's research focuses 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, OFFELIA (for Parkinson's Disease), and CARE-2B (to assess care-recipient impact on caregivers). He has extensively contributed to the EuroQol Group, including serving on the executive committee from 2006-2020 (chair 2014-17) and currently chairs the EQ-HWB working group. Dr. Pickard was named University Scholar in 2023, awarded to outstanding faculty by the President of the University of Illinois System. He teaches and advises students in the UIC professional program (PharmD) and graduate program (PhD/MS) and for more than 20 years has supervised HEOR fellowships sponsored by industry partners including Takeda, NovoNordisk, and Pfizer.