Professor Emeritus

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George Torrance, a founding member of CHEPA, is a world leader in economic evaluation of medical treatments and health services, and was the first researcher at McMaster University to study in this field. He joined the University in 1967, and fulfilled various roles for the next 30 years, including a term as dean of the DeGroote School of Business.

Torrance was a pioneer in the development and application of methods to improve health care decision-making, and helped revolutionize the science and practice of assessing health status and determining quality of life. He developed many of the methods used today in health economics, including those used to measure the preferences for health outcomes, as well as the cost-effectiveness and value of health interventions such as drugs, treatments and devices.