HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT CENTRAL - Key Persons


Adam Aten

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Policy Research Associate / Duke - Margolis Center for Health Policy

Adrian Griffin

Job Titles:
  • VP HTA & Market Access, Johnson & Johnson, United Kingdom

Alan Balch

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer, Patient Advocate Foundation, Hampton, VA, USA

Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Professor of Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica De Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia

Amr Makady

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Amy K. O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Ontada
Amy K. O'Sullivan, PhD, is senior vice president and chief scientific officer at Ontada, where she oversees a team of approximately 70 researchers, biostatisticians, and clinical data specialists in the execution of real-world research for the life sciences industry. Amy has been working in the field of health economics and outcomes research for over 25 years across different sectors. She has held leadership positions at leading health economic and outcomes research (HEOR) consulting companies as well as in industry, including OptumInsight, IMS Health (now IQVIA), Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and Alkermes, Inc. She also held an adjunct faculty position at the Boston University School of Public Health where she taught a graduate-level course in cost-effectiveness analysis for several years. Amy has been serving on the Board of Directors for the ISPOR Boston Regional Chapter for the past 3 years (as president-elect, president, and past president). She has served on several ISPOR conference review committees, has led workshops and issues panels, and presented research at numerous ISPOR conferences since joining the Society in 2002. Amy is passionate about using strong science to support product value and access, development of clinical guidelines, and policy change. Over the course of her career, Amy has led the design and execution of research studies across a broad set of methodologies, including burden-of-illness studies, retrospective database analyses, patient-reported outcomes, trial-based economic evaluations, pharmacoeconomic models, and prospective observational studies. She has overseen the generation of evidence to support market access in jurisdictions around the world. She has experience in wide range of therapeutic areas including autoimmune conditions, cardiovascular disease, central nervous system/behavioral health disorders, metabolic disorders, oncology, respiratory disease, women's health, and rare diseases. Her work has been published in a variety of health economic and clinical journals. Amy holds a BA in economics and English from Boston College and PhD in health economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.

Andrea Manca

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Centre for Health Economics at the University of York

Anja Schiel

Job Titles:
  • Special Adviser, Lead Methodologist in Regulatory and Pharmacoeconomic Statistics, Norwegian Medicines Agency, Norway

Ankita Patel

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Anne Spencer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Professor, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Anton Pottegård

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Arturo Figueroa

Job Titles:
  • CEO and General Manager, PHARMAMANAGEMENT EAS SdeRL De CV

Avery Kearse

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Manager

Axel Muehlbacher

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Hochschule Neubrandenburg, Neubrandenburg, Germany

Bernie J. O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • New Investigator Award

Bertalan Nemeth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Principal Health Economist, Syreon Research Institute / Hungary

Beth Devine

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Graduate Program Director, the Comparative Heath Outcomes, Policy and Economics ( CHOICE ) Institute, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington

Beth Woods

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior Research Fellow, TEEHTA, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Betsy Lane

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing & Communications Officer

Bianca Kovalenko

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Meeting Content

Bill Byrom

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Vice President, Product Intelligence and Positioning, Signant Health, London, United Kingdom
  • Vice President, Product Strategy and Innovation, Signant Health, England, United Kingdom

Blythe Adamson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior Quantitative Scientist, Flatiron Health, New York, NY, USA

Boris Gorsh

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director, Global Oncology HEOR & RWE, Daiichi - Sankyo Inc

Bray Patrick-Lake

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Director of Strategic Partnerships, Evidation Health, San Mateo, CA, USA

Brian Buysse

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior Director Epidemiology, Syneos Health, Spain

Brian O'Rourke - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Bruce Crawford

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Vice President, Real World & Late Phase, APAC, Syneos Health, Tokyo, Japan

Bryan Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • WWHEOR PRO Lead, Bristol Meyers - Squibb, England, United Kingdom

Carley Roberson

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Global Event Operations

Carme Pinyol

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Head, Pricing and Market Access Southern Europe, Pierre Fabre, Catalonia, Spain

Casey Quinn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Cassandra Trejo

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Business Development - Account Management

Chantal Almonord

Job Titles:
  • Chief Information and Engagement Officer

Charlene Wong

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Chelsea Conroy

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Learning Programs - Content Development 609 - 691 - 8969

Christina Darnowski

Job Titles:
  • Director, Governance

Christina Mack

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Vice President, Epidemiology, IQVIA, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Christine Migeot

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Web Content

Claire Burbridge

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Claire Rothery

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York / United Kingdom
  • Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, UK

Clarissa Cooblall

Job Titles:
  • Director, Scientific & Patient Initiatives

Dalia Dawoud

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director ( Research ), the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE )

Daniel A. Ollendorf

Job Titles:
  • Director, Value Measurement & Global Health Initiatives at Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

Daniel Ankrah

Job Titles:
  • Director of Pharmacy, Korle - Bu Teaching Hospital

Daniel Mullins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA

David D. Kim

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago / USA

David Epstein

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

David Pipitone

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Registration

David Van Brunt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Head of Real - World Data Science, Astellas, Libertyville, IL, USA

Delphine Saragoussi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Executive Director, Research Science, Evidera, Paris, France

Derick Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer, Irish Platform for Patient Organisations, Science & Industry ( IPPOSI ), Dublin, Ireland

Detra Davis

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Publications

Diego Guarin

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director Global Market Access, Merck

Dominique Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Global Event Operations

Dong-Churl Suh

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Director of the Graduate Program at the Chung - Ang University College of Pharmacy

Dr. Ana Maria Rodriguez-Leboeuf

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Director, Patient - Centered Endpoints Center of Excellence, IQVIA, Madrid, Spain

Eberechukwu Onukwugha

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA Director, ISPOR Board of Directors ( 2020 - 2023 )
  • Professor, University of Maryland

Edit Remak

Job Titles:
  • Partner, Director, Health Economics, Visible Analytics, Budapest, Hungary

Edith Frenoy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Director, Public Policy, Strategic Advocacy Lead, Merck, Brussels, Belgium

Eleanor M. Perfetto

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

Elizabeth Molsen-David

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Scientific & Health Policy Initiatives

Emelie Heintz

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Emily Sinkiewicz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Marketing and Communications

Erin McCarrie

Job Titles:
  • Digital Marketing Specialist

Eskinder Eshetu Ali - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Eugene Kim

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Member Services

Felicia Davis Alvin

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Learning Programs

Filipa Sampaio

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Economics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Fleur Chandler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Head, Market Access UK and Ireland, Sanofi, England, United Kingdom

Geneviève Bonnélye

Job Titles:
  • Global Head of RWE Research & Consulting, Managing Director France, Cerner Enviza, Paris, France

Graciela Luraschi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, J. F. Kennedy University / Argentina

Gracy Crane

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Regulatory Policy Lead, Roche, Welwyn, England, UK

Gregory Daniel

Job Titles:
  • Global Head of Public Policy, Global Corporate Affairs, Eli Lilly and Company, Washington, DC, USA

Guido Rasi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Gustavo San Martin

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Executive Director, AME - Multiple Friends for Sclerosis and CDD - Day by Day Chronic, São Paulo, Brazil

Homero Monsanto

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Executive Director, CORE Latin America, MSD ( IA ) LLC, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  • Health Economics and Outcomes Research Scientist

Ian Watson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior Technical Adviser - Methods, NICE, London, United Kingdom

Imre Boncz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Habil / Professor & Director, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Irina Kinchin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Research Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Isaac Corro Ramos

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Scientific Researcher, Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, the Netherlands

Iñaki Imaz-Iglesia

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Researcher, Health Technology Assessment Agency, Institute of Health "Carlos III" ( AETS - ISCIII ), Madrid, Spain
  • Senior Researcher, Instituto De Salud Carlos III ( AETS - ISCIII ), Madrid, Spain

Jacoline Bouvy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Program Director Medicines Evaluation, NICE, London, United Kingdom
  • Technical Director, NICE Scientific Advice, NICE, London, United Kingdom

Jada Lamptey

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Scientific and Health Policy Initiatives

James Murray

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Chief Scientific Officer, Decision Alternatives Collaborative, LLC, Carmel, in, USA

Jan Elias Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Evidence for Access Unit - Genentech 's US Medical Affairs

Jason Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Member Services ( 609 ) 691 - 8931

Jennifer Casillas

Job Titles:
  • Director, Member Services

Jennifer Graff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior Director, Professional Affairs, AMCP, Kensington, MD, USA

Jill Chen

Job Titles:
  • Director, Finance & Accounting

Jillian Berardo

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Meeting Content 609 - 691 - 8963

Jing Wu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Professor, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Jon Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior Vice President for Health Economics, ICER, Boston, MA, USA

Juan Marcos Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Julia Chamova

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director, Global Development

Julia Slejko

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Associate Professor, Department of Practice
  • University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Associate Professor, Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research; Co-Director, Patient-Driven Values in Healthcare Evaluation (PAVE) Center, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Ka Keat Lim

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Research Fellow, King 's College London, London, United Kingdom

Karla Eisenhart

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Global Member Engagement

Katherine Bissett

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Meeting Content

Katherine Orellana

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Scientific Operations

Kelly Lenahan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Content Strategy & HTA

Kenneth Hartigan-Go

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow, Ateneo De Manila University School of Government

Kimberly Westrich

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Chief Strategy Officer, National Pharmaceutical Council / USA

King Abdulah

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • International Medical Research Center ( KAIMRC ) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Kirsten Howard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Koen Degeling

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Research Scientist, Lumen Value & Access, the Netherlands

Larry Liu

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Merck & Co. Inc

Laura McCullagh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Head of Research, Chief I Pharmacist, National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics Ireland ( NCPE ), Dublin, Ireland

Laura Panattoni

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Director, Precision Value and Health / USA

Laura Pizzi

Job Titles:
  • Chief Science Officer

Leanna Zaritsky

Job Titles:
  • Project Specialist, Global Events

Lisa Hess

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior Research Advisor, Eli Lilly and Company / USA
  • Senior Research Advisor, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, in, USA

Lisa Pieretti

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Executive Director, International Hyperhidrosis Society, Center Valley, PA, USA

Lotte Steuten

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Vice President & Head of Consulting, OHE, Honorary Visiting Professor at City, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Lucinda Orsini

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Vice President for Value and Outcomes Research, COMPASS Pathways
  • Vice President, Value and Outcomes Research, COMPASS Pathways, Skillman, NJ, USA

Lyn Beamesderfer

Job Titles:
  • Director, Publications

Lynn Schindel

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Marketing

Lynnette Procopio

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Business Systems

Maciej Niewada

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • President, ISPOR Poland Regional Chapter Office Professor, Department of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology of Medical University of Warsaw HEALTHQUEST Company, Warsaw, Poland

Madeline Shipley

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Scientific & Health Policy Initiatives 609 - 691 - 8966

Mahendra Rai

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior Director & Regional Head, HEOR & Real World Evidence ( Japan, China & APAC ), EVERSANA, Mumbai, India

Manthan D Janodia

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs and Management, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education / India

Marc Berger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Consultant and Scientific Advisor Retired, New York, NY, USA

Marcin Czech

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Professor, Head, Department of Pharmacoeconomics, Institute of Mother and Child, Course Director, Business School, Warsaw University of Technology, President of ISPOR Poland Chapter, Warsaw, Poland

Marcus Guardian

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer, EUnetHTA, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Margaret Fontana

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Marketing & Communications

Maria Cook

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Executive Affairs

Maria Mavris

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Marilyn Dix Smith

Marilyn Dix Smith, RPh, PhD served as founding executive director for ISPOR from 1995 to 2014. For nearly 20 years, Dr Smith was chief executive officer of the organization and was responsible for implementing the initiatives of the Society. Prior to founding ISPOR, Dr Smith was director, managed care pharmacy at Lederle Laboratories. Previously, she was director, quality control at Lederle where she was responsible for assuring product quality. Dr Smith received her BS in pharmacy and PhD in pharmaceutical science from Ohio State University. She published a number of scientific articles and has given many presentations in quality assessment techniques, healthcare legislation, and disease treatment optimization. Dr Smith was also a cofounder of the American Association for Pharmaceutical Scientists, a member of the American Society of Association Executives, and involved in many other pharmacy and healthcare professional organizations.

Marlene Gyldmark

Job Titles:
  • Global Head HEOR and Epidemiology, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals, Ltd / Basel, Switzerland

Mary Rehm

Job Titles:
  • Director, Learning Programs

Massoud Toussi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Global Category Lead, RWE, IQVIA, Courbevoie, France

Meghan Pipher

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Exhibits & Meeting Partnerships

Mehtap Tatar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Director, Polar Health Economics and Policy Consultancy / Turkey
  • Director, Polar Health Economics and Policy Consultancy, Ankara, Turkey
  • Polar Health Economics and Policy Consultancy / Ankara, Turkey

Melissa Chando

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director, People & Culture

Melissa Kane

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Digital Marketing

Meredith Kaganovskiy

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Content Delivery & Design

Michael Grabner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Carelon Research
  • Principal Scientist, Carelon Research / USA

Michael Herdman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Head of Health Outcomes, Office of Health Economics, Spain

Michael Ward

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Public Policy and Government Relations, Alliance for Aging Research, Washington, DC, USA

Michelle Mujoomdar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Director, Strategic Policy Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, on, Canada
  • Health Canada

Michelle Rovner

Job Titles:
  • Director, Marketing

Michelle Xie

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Digital Products X 8948

Minal Patel

Job Titles:
  • Data Analyst

Mirjami Tran Minh

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Communications and Public Affairs Specialist, Cancer IO Project, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Mitch Higashi

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Chief Science Officer
  • Member of the Program Committee

Nan Qiao

Job Titles:
  • Director, Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ, USA

Nancy A. Dreyer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Chief Scientific Officer Emerita, Dreyer Strategies LLC, Newton, MA, USA

Nancy Chen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Global Member Engagement

Nataya Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, People & Culture 609 - 691 - 8958

Neda Milevska Kostova

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Chairman, International Alliance of Patients Organisations, United Kingdom

Nicholas Latimer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Professor of Health Economics, ScHARR, University of Sheffield / United Kingdom
  • Reader in Health Economics, ScHARR - University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Nicky J Welton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Professor, Statistical and Health
Professor, Statistical and Health Economic Modelling, Director, NICE Guidelines Technical Support Unit, co-Director, Bristol Technology Assessment Group, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Olivia Wu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Professor, Director of Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment ( HEHTA ) Research Group, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Oriana Ciani

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Practice, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy

Oriol Solà-Morales

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • CEO, HiTT Foundation / Spain

Paige Laurence

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Global Event Operations

Pall Jonsson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Programme Director - Data, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Manchester, England, UK
  • Programme Director for Data and Analytics, Science Policy and Research Programme, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE ), Manchester, United Kingdom

Patricia Aluko

Job Titles:
  • Global Health Outcomes Lead, Reckitt Benckiser / United Kingdom

Paul Michael Wong

Job Titles:
  • Director, Global Events

Paul Scuffham

Job Titles:
  • Director, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University / Queensland, Australia

Praveen Thokala

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow, School of Health and Related Research ( ScHARR ), the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Priyamvada Tewari

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Director, Commercial Life Sciences and Med Tech, Mathematica Policy Research / USA

Pru Etcheverry

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Pura Angela Wee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Rachele Hendricks Sturrup

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Research Director, RWE, Duke - Margolis Center for Health Policy, Washington, DC, USA

Ramiro Eugenio Gilardino

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Global HTA & Access Policy Leader, MSD Innovation & Development, GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland

Ran Balicer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Innovation Officer, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel

Ratna Devi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • CEO and Co - Founder, DakshamA Health and Education, Board Member, International Alliance of Patients' Organizations, New Delhi, India
  • Chief Executive Officer, Dakshayani and Amaravati Health and Education, New Delhi, India

Raul Alvarez

Job Titles:
  • IT Manager

Richard J. Willke

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientific Adviser and CSO Emeritus

Rob Abbott - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Executive Director
  • Executive Director of ISPOR - the Professional Society for Health Economics
Rob Abbott is chief executive officer (CEO) and executive director of ISPOR-The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), the leading global professional society in the field of HEOR. He is responsible for the Society's global strategic direction and leadership. Mr Abbott is a highly accomplished, visionary leader with more than 20 years' experience providing executive-level strategic and operational leadership in businesses, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), government environments, as well as professional societies and associations. Most recently, he served as executive director and CEO of Health Technology Assessment International, a global nonprofit society focused on health technology assessment (HTA). He is recognized for his knowledge in HTA, strategy, and stakeholder relations. He has successfully guided a number of organizations through their transformation and growth. He is also a pioneering social responsibility thinker and advisor who has authored 2 books and numerous articles on the nature of business and society. Mr Abbott holds an undergraduate honors degree from the University of Victoria and graduate degrees from the University of Toronto. Additionally, he holds professional designations as both a management consultant and an ICF-accredited coach.

Robel Tesfay

Job Titles:
  • AMS Administrator ( 609 ) 691 - 8907

Robert Brett McQueen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Assistant Professor, Center for Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research
Assistant Professor, Center for Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research (CePOR), Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

Robert Selby

Job Titles:
  • Director, Global Member Engagement

Roisin Adams

Job Titles:
  • Head of HTA Strategy and External Engagement, NCPE, Dublin, Ireland

Rui Santos Ivo

Job Titles:
  • President, INFARMED, I.P., Lisbon, Portugal

Sahar Alam

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Scientific & Health Policy Initiatives

Samantha Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Samuel Gautier

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Scientific & Health Policy Initiatives

Sandra Nestler-Parr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Vice President, Value & Access, Biocryst Pharmaceuticals / United Kingdom

Sang Soo Lee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Director of Health Care
Sr. Director of Health Care Economics and Government Affairs (HCE&GA), Medtronic North Asia (Korea and Japan) and Head of Center of Expertise (COE), HCE&GA, Medtronic Asia Pacific, Seoul, South Korea

Sarina Lane

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Business Development & Sales

Saskia Knies

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior Advisor Health Economics and Personalized Medicine, National Health Care Institute, Diemen, the Netherlands
  • Senior Advisor, Cost - Effectiveness and Personalised Medicine, Coordinator, Research Network HTA National Health Care Institute, the Netherlands

Seamus Kent

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Lead, HTA, Flatiron, the Netherlands

Sean Gormley

Job Titles:
  • Director, Business Development

Sebastian Heidenreich

Job Titles:
  • Patient Preferences - Senior Director, EVIDERA / United Kingdom

Sebastian Schneeweiss

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Shamar Rose

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Web Content

Shirley Wang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Associate Professor, Brigham & Women 's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Sofie Berghuis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Market Access Manager

Sorrel Wolowacz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Head, EU Health Economics RTI Health Solutions, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Head, European Health Economics, RTI Health Solutions, Manchester, United Kingdom

Soumana Chamoun Nasser

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Stacie Hudgens

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer & Principal Scientific Advisor, Clinical Outcomes Solutions LLC / USA

Steffen Thirstrup

Job Titles:
  • Chief Medical Officer, European Medicines Agency ( EMA ), Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Steffen Wahler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • CEO, St. Bernward GmbH, Germany

Stephanie Manson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Independent Consultant / USA
  • Senior Director, HEOR Excellence, Novartis, East Hanover, NJ, USA

Sue Capon - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operations Officer

Suliman Alghnam

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Executive Director of Surveillance, Saudi Public Health Authority / Saudi Arabia
  • Head, Population Health, KAIMRC

Takashi Fukuda

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Director of Centers for Outcomes Research and Economic Evaluation for Health, National and Institute for Public Health, Tokyo, Japan
Kirsten Howard, MPH, MHlthEc, PhD Professor and Co-Director of Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, and Chair of the Economics Sub-committee of PBAC, Sydney, Australia

Tammy Rauth

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Operations

Tamás Ágh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Research Associate Professor, Center for Health Technology Assessment and Pharmacoeconomic Research, University of Pécs & Syreon Research Institute / Budapest, Hungary

Tara Symonds

Job Titles:
  • Principal Scientific Advisor, Clinical Outcome Assessments, Clinical Outcomes Solutions Ltd., England, UK

Tarian Namvar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior Analyst, Health Economics and Reimbursement, Abbott / USA

Tarlan Namvar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Thomas Rapp

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Associate Professor, Université De Paris, Paris, France
  • Associate Professor, Université Paris Cité ( LIRAES ), Co - Director of the Health Policy Research Program, Sciences Po ( LIEPP ), Paris, France
  • Professor, Université Paris Cité ( LIRAES ), Co - Director of the Health Policy Research Program, Sciences Po ( LIEPP ), Senior Advisor, Cepton - Vintura, Paris, France

Thomas Senderovitz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Senior VP Data Science, NovoNordisk / Denmark

Thor-Henrik Brodtkorb

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Executive Director, Health Economics, RTI Health Solutions, Ljungskile, Sweden

Tiffany Timmons

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Global Event Operations

Uwe Siebert

Job Titles:
  • Professor, UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Tirol, Austria and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US

Vanessa Schaub

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Global Access Health Systems Strategy Lead HTA & Reimbursement, F. Hoffmann La Roche, Basel, Switzerland

Vijay S. Gc

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, United Kingdom
  • Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield / United Kingdom

Vittorio Maio

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Research Professor, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Viva Ma

Job Titles:
  • Chairman - Elect

William Crown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Distinguished Research Scientist, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

William L. Herring

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Health Economics, RTI Health Solutions / USA

William Padula

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, USC School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Wim Goettsch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Special Advisor HTA, Zorginstituut Nederland, Dieman, Netherlands

Xiao Xu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive
  • Herbert and Florence Irving Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center / USA
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine; Faculty member of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE) and Yale Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research Center (COPPER), New Haven, CT, USA

Yifei Liu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Division of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Pharmacy / USA

Yvonne Chan

Job Titles:
  • Associate, Publications