Scott Ramsey
Professor of Medicine & Pharmacy (Adjunct)
CHOICE Faculty, Department of Pharmacy, School Faculty
Email: sramsey@uw.edu
Appointments
- Academic: Professor, Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Health Services, Department of Pharmacy
- Professional: Director, Hutchinson Institute of Cancer Outcomes Research
Education & Training
- MD, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
- Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA
- Chief Residency in Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
- Fellowship, General Internal Medicine, Seattle VA Medical Center
Bio
Dr. Scott Ramsey is a general internist and health economist. He is a Professor in the Cancer Prevention Program, Public Health Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, where he directs the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, a multidisciplinary team devoted to clinical and economic evaluations of new and existing cancer prevention, screening, and treatment technologies. In addition, Dr. Ramsey is a Professor in the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Washington.
Trained in medicine and economics, Dr. Ramsey’s research focuses on economic evaluations in cancer. He has published widely on patterns of care, costs, and cost-effectiveness of treatments for lung, colorectal, and prostate cancer. His research portfolio and interests include large-scale SEER-Medicare/Cancer Registry data linkages, patient-reported outcomes, economic modeling of health care interventions, cost-effectiveness analysis, quality-of-life assessment, patterns of care, health care utilization, economic burden of disease for patients and society, pragmatic trial design, early technology assessment, and stakeholder engagement.