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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Uwe Siebert, MPH, MSc

Department Chair

Prof. Dr. Uwe Siebert, MPH, MSc  

  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

 

 


 

Scientific Board Positions in Scientific Societies and Journals: 

  • Vice President of the Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
  • Member of the Working Group on Methodologic Perspectives in Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) of the Harvard School of Public Health Flagship Initiative in CER
  • Member of the Development Committee of the Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
  • Member of the Scientific Program Committee, 14th Biennial SMDM European Meeting, Oslo, Norway
  • Member of the Program Committee Epidemiology, 57th Annual Meeting of the Society of Medical Informatics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology (GMDS), Braunschweig, Germany
  • Co-Chair of the ISPOR-SMDM Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force
  • Co-Chair of the State-Transition Modeling Working Group of the ISPOR-SMDM Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force
  • International Expert Committee Advising the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) on the Methods for Economic Evaluations of Health Care Interventions
  • Member of the Latin America Consortium Advisory Committee of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
  • Member of the Oncology Advisory Council of the Ministry of Health, Austria 
  • Member, Advisory Board Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment (LBI HTA), Vienna, Austria
  • Co-Chair, Issues in Methodology Section of the Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM) Policy Initiative
  • Clinical Guideline Commissioner of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) for the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF)
  • 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)
  • Associate Editor of the International Journal of Public Health (IJPH)
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
  • Past Member, Trustee Board, Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
  • Past Member, Board of Directors, International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
  • Past 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)

 

Research Interests:

  • Evaluation of Public Health Interventions
  • Design and Conduction of Public Health Field Studies
  • Health Services and Outcomes Research, Comparative Effectiveness Research
  • 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 Disease, Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorders

 

Awards and Honors: 

2013 Second Poster Award (Co-author) of the 14th Annual Congress of the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine 2013
 

2012

David Sackett Award (DNEbM - German Network Evidence-Based Medicine) for the HTA Report 'Individual Health Services' (IGeL)

2011

ISPOR Service Award as Co-Chair of the ISPOR-SMDM Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force and Co-Chair of the State-Transition Modeling Working Group

2010

SMDM Leadership and Service Award for SMDM Trustee, Methods Policy Liaison & 2010 European Meeting Chair with appreciation for leadership and service 2007-2010

2010

Poster Award (Co-author) Session 'Epidemiology, Guidelines, Evidence-based Medicine, Economics' (German Society for Neurology)

2009

Award for Best 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'

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