A Pharma Exec’s Inside View Of PCORI: Pfizer’s Freda Lewis-Hall
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Pfizer Chief Medical Officer Freda Lewis-Hall, a member of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s Board of Governors, talked to “The Pink Sheet” DAILY about the institute’s work over the past two years and coming up in 2013 and how the institute and the pharmaceutical industry have interacted since PCORI was set up by the Affordable Care Act.
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