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Ivana Stojanovic, MA, has joined Avalon Health Economics as a Health Economist. Ivana has several years of experience in economics consulting, and has expertise in conducting data analysis and research for litigation support. Her quantitative skills include SAS, SQL, STATA, and Basic VBA. Click here for Ivana’s full biosketch.

Avalon Health Economics will be attending Nordic Life Science Days 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, September 7-9. Avalon will present “Establishing the Value of New Drugs, Devices & Diagnostics” (See Presentation). The NLSD is the largest life sciences meeting held in the Nordic region, and will include representatives from pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers, diagnostics companies, and…

Noemi Kiss is a Senior Health Economist with Avalon. She recently earned her MSc in Health Economics from the University of York (United Kingdom). Prior to York, Ms. Kiss was a Health Economist at Oxford Outcomes, Ltd (and Oxford’s parent company ICON plc), from 2010-13. Click here to read her biosketch. In addition to her…

James Robinson joins Avalon Health Economics as a Director. Jamie is the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT) at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to his role as Director at Avalon Health Economics, his professional activities include his roles as Senior…

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Avalon at ISPOR: John Schneider and Cara Scheibling will be attending the annual meeting of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research in Montreal next week, June 1 through June 4. The title of this year’s meeting is “Examining the Role of Big Data in Health Care Decision Making.” If you’d like to meet,…

Avalon will be attending and presenting at the 6th Annual EuroMedtech conference in Linz, Austria, May 7-8. The topic will be on economic evaluation of devices and diagnostics through the product lifecycle. Economic evaluations of new devices and diagnostics should begin early, and should be adjusted and revised throughout the product lifecycle as better data…

Conjunctivitis is a common condition of the eye that occurs worldwide and affects all ages and social strata, affecting more than 2 percent of the population. It is caused by a variety of bacterial or viral pathogens but may also be caused by allergies, irritants or medications. Most types are self-limiting, but some may progress…

Michael J. Lacey, MSc, has joined Avalon Health Economics as a Senior Consultant focusing on Economic Modelling & Value Strategy. He also works as an independent health economics consultant. He has over 15 years industry experience leading new product market access, health economics and pricing strategy development within medical technology firms. He was Senior Director…

Joining us recently is Megan Modic, who will provide research assistance on a variety of projects. Ms. Modic is currently earning her Bachelor’s degree in Honors Economics and Environmental Science at Drew University, in Madison, NJ, where she is President of The Fund, a student run investment portfolio.