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Few topics are as controversial in healthcare as drug pricing. As prices edge ever higher, budgets are stretched ever thinner. And while some patients and clinicians clamour for new and better therapeutics, others question the value of the drugs that are reaching the market. The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), an independent non-profit organization, has leaned into this tension, developing systematic and transparent methods to assess the cost-effectiveness of new treatments. With ICER’s founding President Steve Pearson now stepping down, President-elect Sarah Emond is ready to take up the medical mantle.