In Brief

Professor Michael Schlander

is founder and chairman of the independent Institute for Innovation & Valuation in Health Care (InnoValHC), a non-profit, non-partisan scientific organization dedicated to research related to the utilization, effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health care, with particular emphasis on novel approaches of service provision.

He has taught, and continues to teach, health economics and innovation management at the University of Heidelberg, Mannheim Medical Faculty (since 2007; previously at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Medicine, 2005-2008, and at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Faculty of Medicine, 1996-2005), and at the University of Applied Economic Sciences Ludwigshafen, Germany (since 2002).

Prior to his full-time university appointment in 2002, he spent fifteen years in executive positions with international research-based pharmaceutical companies in Germany, Belgium, and the United States.

Before that, he had spent six years in experimental brain research and clinical neurology at German universities.

 

In Detail

Founder and Chairman of INNOVALHC
Institute for Innovation & Valuation in Health Care

(since June 2005)

Health Economist at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, Mannheim Medical Faculty, Department of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine (since 2006)

Member of Scientific Steering Committee, Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Medicine, responsible for courses in health economics and innovation management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (2005-2008); before that, founding member of Scientific Steering Committee, Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Medicine, and Member of Faculty of Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany (1996-2005)

Professor of Business Administration and (Technology, Innovation, Life Sciences & Health Care) Management (since September 2002; position offered in January 2002, accepted: February 2002) at the University of Applied Economic Sciences (Hochschule fuer Wirtschaft), Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany; scientific focus on health economics and innovation management

 

Academic Roles

Institute for Innovation & Valuation in Health Care:
Foundation Chairman and Scientific Director of INNOVALHC
(since June 2005)

University of Heidelberg, Mannheim Institute for Public Health, Visiting Scientist and Privatdozent (PD) for Health Economics
(since 2006 and 2007, respectively)

University of Applied Economic Sciences Ludwigshafen, Professor for Business Administration and Management
- Focus on Health Economics (since 2002)

 

Academic Background

"Habilitation" (venia legendi, Ph.D. equivalent)
in Health Economics,

University of Heidelberg, Germany
November 2007

Diploma in Health Economics,
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
(Handelshögskolan i Stockholm),
June 2002

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.),
City University of Seattle / Washington, U.S.A.
(Valedictorian of the class of 1994)

Dr. med. (M.D.),
University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
(Dissertation in experimental brain research;
grade "summa cum laude"), January 1987

Licensed as a physician in Germany,
Since November 1985

 

Major Areas of Scientific Interest

Please refer to “Research”.

 

Publications

Predominantly in the fields of experimental brain research, innovation management, and health economics. More than 250 scientific contributions to international meetings and journals including (in alphabetical order): American Journal of Psychiatry, Anatomy & Embryology, Annals of Haematology, Applied Clinical Trials, Brain Research, Cell and Tissue Research, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (CAPMH), Drug Information Journal, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ECAP), European Journal of Clinical Chemistry & Clinical Biochemistry, Gastroenterology, Gut, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, International Journal of Clinical Pharma-cology and Therapeutics, Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, Journal of Medical Ethics, Neuroscience, Neuroscience Letters, Pharmaceutical Executive, Progress of Clinical & Biological Research, Value in Health, as well as a number of German periodicals, such as Deutsches Ärzteblatt, Gesellschafts-politische Kommentare, Gesundheitsökonomie & Qualitätsmanagement, Kassenarzt, Medizinische Klinik, Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift (MMW) / Fortschritte der Medizin, PharmInd – Die pharmazeutische Industrie, and psychoneuro.

A complete list of publications will be provided on request.

For further information, please also refer
to “Publications & Presentations( P&P).

 

Member of Scientific Associations

Including the following: International Health Economics Association (iHEA), Association of German speaking economists (Verein für Socialpolitik), Product Development & Management Association (pdma), Drug Information Association (DIA), International Society for Pharmaoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), German Society for Pharmaceutical Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pharmazeutische Medizin, DGPharMed), Association of German Medical Writers (Vereinigung der Deutschen Medizinischen Fach-und Standespresse im VDJM), Frankfurt Medical Society (Frankfurter Medizinische Gesellschaft, FMG and Gesundheitsnetz Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck (GN-RND).

 

Professional Background

Professional experience gathered in Germany, Belgium, and the United States of America:

Professor of Business Administration and Management

University of Applied Economic Sciences (Hochschule für Wirtschaft) Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Since September 1, 2002;

Member of commission for "Good Scientific Practice"
Since December, 2002

Managing Director

Pharmaceutical / Medical Device Industry
(August 1, 1999 – August 31, 2002)

Turn around and strategic change management;
achieving substained double-digit organic growth and double-digit return on revenues after a long-standing decline of market share, shrinking sales and substantial loss prior to taking over leadership

Strategic and Tactical Marketing

Pharmaceutical Industry
(September 1, 1993 – July 31, 1999)

Building, from scratch, a worldwide operating Strategic Business Unit (functional areas: project management, clinical development, international medical communications, international marketing, domestic marketing & sales management); leading one of the most successful new product launches of the German pharmaceutical industry (pantoprazole)

Clinical Research and Development

Pharmaceutical Industry
(September 1, 1987 – August 31, 1993)

Leading successful European new product development

Experimental Brain Research and Clinical Neurology

(April 1, 1982 - August 31, 1987)

Combined light and electron microscopic studies of identified neurons in the hippocampus of the mammalian and the human brain (including M.D. thesis project); clinical residency in neurology.