Team

 

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Uwe Siebert, MPH, MSc
Department Chair
	Professor of Public Health (UMIT)
	Adjunct Prof. of Health Policy and Management (Harvard Univ.)
	Tel: +43 50 8648-3930
	Fax: +43 50 8648-673931
	public-health@umit.at

 

Current Scientific Board Positions in Scientific Societies and Journals:

 

• International Expert Committee Advising the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) on the Methods for Economic Evaluations of Health Care Interventions
• Trustee, Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
• Member of the Latin America Consortium Advisory Committee of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
• Advisory Board Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment (LBI HTA), Vienna, Austria
• Member of the Working Group 'Methods of the Assessment of Cost-Benefit Relations' of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG)
• Past Member, Board of Directors, International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
• Co-Chair, Issues in Methodology Section of the Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM) Policy Initiative
• Chair, Working Group Health Economics, German Society of Medical Informatics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology (GMDS)
• Chair, Working Group Medical Decision Making, GMDS
• Leadership Member, ISPOR Personalized Medicine Special Interest Group
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Value in Health (ViH)
• Member of the Editorial Board, Medical Decision Making (MDM)
• Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (IJTAHC)
• Member of the International Editorial Board, Brazilian Journal of Health Economics (BJHE)
  
  

 

Research interests:

• Evaluation of Public Health Interventions
• Methods and Procedures in Health Technology Assessment
• Guideline Development and Medical Decision Making
• Translational Research and Implementation Science
• Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine
• Causal Inference in Epidemiology
• Cancer, Cardiovascular and Infectious Diseases

 

Awards and Honors:

 

2009	Award for Outstanding Short Course (Society of Medical Decision Making)
2009	David Sackett Award (DNEbM - German Network Evidence-Based Medicine) for the paper 'The Effect of Electronic Prescribing on Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events: A Systematic Review'
2008	Clinical Research Award for 'Evaluation of progression-free survival as a surrogate endpoint in advanced breast cancer': Details
2008	ISPOR Distinguished Service Award for ISPOR Eleventh Annual European Congress Program Chair in recognition of service to the Society
2008	ISPOR Board of Directors Service Award
2008	German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM): Award for Best Publication in Medizinische Klinik - Journal for Internal Medicine in Hospital and Private Practice 2007 for the paper 'Impact of vaccination against oncogenic human papillomavirus on the incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in Germany': Details
2004	Award for Outstanding Short Course (Society of Medical Decision Making)
2003	Award for Evidence-based Medicine (German Cochrane Center and Deutsche Krankenversicherung)
2002	Novartis Fellowship Award in the Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology (PEEMT), Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health
2000	German Award for Pain Research
1999	Spitzner-Award Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine
1999	Pharmacoepidemiology Training and Research Scholarship, Dept. of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
1999	Paul Martini Research Award in Pharmacoepidemiology
1998	Pain Research Award
1996	Bavarian Public Health Award
1996	Fritz and Hildegard Berg Award for Public Health