2026
6th Annual Symposium Co-Hosted by The CHOICE Institute & Plein Center for Aging
Date: February 26, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM Pacific Time
Location: Genome Sciences, Room S060, 3720 15th Avenue Northeast, Seattle, WA 98195 & Zoom
Topic: The Value of Technology in Aging: The GenAI Era
The CHOICE Institute and the Plein Center for Aging at the UW School of Pharmacy are proud to co-sponsor an interdisciplinary research symposium, The Value of Technology in Aging: The GenAI Era. Bringing together leading experts in economics, engineering, and nursing, the symposium will examine how cutting-edge technologies, including digital and robotic innovations, can create value by improving care quality, efficiency, and quality of life across health care, long-term care, and home settings.
The program will feature three presentations by Dr. Karen Eggleston of Stanford University, Dr. Shuai Huang of UW School of Engineering, and Dr. Oleg Zaslavsky of UW School of Nursing, and a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Jing Li, Associate Professor of Health Economics at The CHOICE Institute & Plein Center for Aging, followed by a light social reception. If unable to attend in person, please register for the virtual streaming of the lecture!
Speakers:
- Karen Eggleston, PhD, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Asia Health Policy Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at FSI, and Professor, by courtesy, of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine
- Shuai Huang, PhD, Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Washington School of Engineering
- Oleg Zaslavsky, PhD, Director, Digital Health Innovation Hub; Associate Professor in Aging, Biobehavioral Nursing, University of Washington School of Nursing
- Jing Li, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Economics at The CHOICE Institute & Plein Center for Aging, University of Washington School of Pharmacy
Past Symposiums
5th Annual Symposium
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2023
Topic: Artificial Intelligence, Real Consequences: The side effects of AI in healthcare
Speakers:
- Judy Wawira Gichoya, MD, MS, Associate Professor – Interventional Radiology & Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Noémi Kreif, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Health Economics, University of York
- Michael Willingham, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Google Health
- Moderated by Aasthaa Bansal, PhD, Associate Professor, The CHOICE Institute
Recording: 2023 CHOICE Institute Symposium
4th Annual Symposium
Date: October 21, 2022
Topic: Health Equity in HEOR
Speakers:
- Mónica García-Pérez, Ph.D. Economics, Professor of Economics at St. Cloud State University and Senior Fellow at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University: Placing the Equity within Health and Economics: Policy and Economics Dimensions
- Susan Griffin, PhD, Professor, University of York, UK: Including the social value of equity impacts in economic evaluation
- Sherri Rose, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Co-Director of the Health Policy Data Science Lab: Algorithmic Bias and Machine Learning in Health Care
- Moderated by Josh Carlson, MPH, PhD
Recording: 2022 CHOICE Institute Annual Symposium: Health Equity in HEOR
3rd Annual Symposium
Date: April 29, 2021
Topic: Can We Re-Envision an Office of Health Technology Assessment for the U.S.?
Speakers:
- Louis Garrison, PhD
- Rachel Sachs, JD, MPH
- Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
- Gail Wilensky, PhD
- Moderated by Sean D. Sullivan, BScPharm, PhD
Recording: 2021 CHOICE Symposium
2nd Annual Symposium
Date: March 13, 2019
Topic: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness – Incorporating & Summarizing Multiple Dimensions of Value in Healthcare Technology Assessment
Speaker: Charles E. Phelps, PhD
Recording: The CHOICE Institute 2019 Annual Symposium | Beyond Cost-Effectiveness with Dr. Charles E. Phelps
This symposium was held in partnership with the UW School of Pharmacy Don B. Katterman Memorial Lecture Series
Date: May 3, 2018
Topic: Measuring Value in Healthcare
Speaker: Peter Neumann, Sc.D., Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
How to measure value in health care has long interested and challenged researchers and health policymakers. How can one put a proper value on a treatment that reduces pain, relieves symptoms, or extends life? The lecture will discuss opportunities and barriers for using formal cost-effectiveness analysis to measure value in health care. The lecture will describe trends in the use of cost-effectiveness analysis, new US methodological guidelines for the field, and the pros and cons of using new value frameworks to inform coverage, reimbursement and pricing issues in the U.S. and abroad.
Recording: 2018 Don B. Katterman Memorial Lecture