Vasco Pontinha, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Pharmacoeconomics
Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science, Virginia Commonwealth University

Dr. Pontinha is a health economist specialized in health care quality, medication use, and economic evaluation of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions in health care. He received his Ph.D. from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy where he developed group-based trajectory models to identify patterns of long-term medication adherence and implemented machine learning algorithms to evaluate value-based health care policy. He was also able to attract extramural funding to pursue his doctoral dissertation. Prior to his doctoral training, he received his pharmacy degree from the University of Lisbon and his Master in Management from the Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, and worked extensively for pharmaceutical companies and in consulting.

 

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