Ilene Hollin, PhD

Ilene Hollin, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center and the National Pharmaceutical Council.

Her research interests include patient preferences, patient-centered benefit-risk assessment, access and affordability of healthcare, the impact of health economics and policy on decision-making, and the value of health IT. She is particularly interested in rare diseases and pediatric applications. Her dissertation focused on patient-centered drug development for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Hollin was previously a program specialist at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. She was a Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Disparities Research Fellow and a recipient of a training grant fellowship from the Division of Health Science Informatics. She has received the Alison Snow Jones Memorial Prize, the Charles D. Flagle Award, and the Lee Lusted Student Prize in Decision Psychology and Shared Decision Making.

She earned a PhD, specializing in economic evaluation, at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She also holds a BA in American studies and international and global studies from Brandeis University, an MPH in effectiveness and outcomes research from Columbia University, and a certificate in public health informatics from Johns Hopkins.