David Feeny David Feeny, currently a Senior Investigator at the Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, in Portland, Oregon, was one of the founding members of CHEPA in 1988. He worked at McMaster from 1976 to 1998, teaching in both the Department of Economics and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. After leaving McMaster University he held appointments in Economics, Public Health Sciences, and Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Alberta. He has expertise in many research areas related to the evaluation and assessment of health care technologies and services, and health-related quality of life. Specific projects have included the evaluations of treatment for childhood cancer, prenatal diagnosis, pediatric asthma, hip replacement, rehabilitation following heart attacks, long-term outcomes of neonatal intensive care and health-related quality of life effects on being on waiting lists for elective surgery. He was involved in the development of the Health Utilities Index (HUI), a multi-attribute health status classification system, and continues to participate in research on the determinants of health at the population level. His ongoing research includes evaluating the effects of the routine use of measures of health-related quality of life in the areas of patient management, quality assurance, clinical policy and administration. Until recently Feeny served as an associate editor of Quality of Life Research, and currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care and Medical Decision Making.