Chief Science Officer
ZRx Outcomes Research inc.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Vladimir Zah, PhD, brings 20+ years of Health Economics technology and business experience in the pharmaceutical and medical device sector. Since 2000, in various roles as Health Economist, Project Manager, and Chief Clinical Trial Investigator, Vlad has implemented more than 170 health economic product evaluations and assessments in the pharma pipeline phase 2, 3, and 4 settings, across various disease areas for top 20 global pharmaceutical companies; his work supported over 60 publications and over 20 drug licensing and development “go – no go” decisions. He develops/assists Pharma with Value-Based Agreements / Contracts design and discussion with large US private insurers.
Since 2010, as the Chief Health Economist, Vlad has been data-mining large public and private payer US healthcare datasets, which resulted in over 20+ publications. He spent more than 10 years in exploring various aspects of addiction, mental health or chronic pain treatments.
Vlad resides as an active member of various ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research) bodies (Chair ISPOR Digital Health SIG 2022-23, Institutional member ISOQOL UX & User Experience SIG). As a past CEE (Central East Europe) Executive Committee Chair 2015-17, with 26 local European country chapter presidents directly reporting to him, he successfully initiated and implemented the conversion of ISPOR CEE Network to ISPOR CEE Consortium and implemented the first multi-criteria decision making (MCDA) cross border studies in the area of Oncology and Rare Diseases.
Vlad is visiting epidemiology, health economics, and real-world data professor at Kozminski University. Over the years, he has provided HEOR training relating to both medications and medical devices to the Ministry of Health, National Insurance Funds, or at national congresses in Russia, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Slovenia, FYROM, Republic of Srpska, India, Japan, Brazil, Chile, and most recently Colombia (Sept 2022).
Vlad is an active member of ISPOR, AMCP, ISOQOL, ISPE, ASAM, AAAP, AATOD, and HTAI and serves as a journal reviewer in multiple journals. He founded ZRx Outcomes Research Inc. in 2003.
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