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Dr. Steven D. Pearson is the founder and president of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) at Massachusetts General Hospital. ICER is a leader in bringing stakeholders together to develop methods and policies to improve the use of evidence in the healthcare system. Dr. Pearson also serves as visiting scientist in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and is a lecturer in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

He attended the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. An internist, health services researcher, and ethicist, he has served in many advisory and leadership roles in academia and government. From 2005 to 2006 Dr. Pearson was special advisor, Technology and Coverage Policy, within the Coverage and Analysis Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He also has served as senior fellow at America's Health Insurance Plans, and as the vice chair of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC) from 2007 to 2009.

Dr. Pearson continues today to serve in various roles related to comparative effectiveness research and policy, including the AcademyHealth Methods Council, the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, and the NIH Effectiveness Research Steering Committee. His published work includes numerous articles and commentaries on the role of evidence in the healthcare system, and the book No Margin, No Mission: Health Care Organizations and the Quest for Ethical Excellence, published in 2003 by Oxford University Press.